Auburn’s UPC presented their Spring 2015 Comedy on the Plains event on April 14, 2015. The featured comedian this time around was the ever popular Nick Offerman who’s best know for his seriously funny role as Ron Swanson on the NBC hit, Parks and Recreation.
Offerman entered the stage wearing a navy shirt with some kind of orange feline creature on it (a possible attempted tribute to Auburn?) and started out his performance by cracking some jokes about AU’s traditional “war eagle” story. What was even more popular, though, was the jokes that soon followed about our heated rivalry with the Crimson Tide.
In typical Nick Offerman fashion, most of his stories and jokes alternated with equally funny songs he spoke/sang while playing the guitar. Offerman also hit on some heated issues like gun control, religion and politics with a comedic twist that somehow made these topics more approachable.
Offerman encouraged the audience to learn skills that are actually usable, and talked about his own love for woodcarving, hunting and reading. His main message to college students, though, was to focus on finding something that you love to do, and find a way to get paid for it. He dislikes the concept of TGIF, and says that using that term means you hate 5/7 days of your life. His advice and candor was well-received by the audience, and left everyone intrigued, but also, of course, laughing uncontrollably.