Comedian K-Von gave a hilarious, multi-faceted performance in the IMU on Tuesday night.
By Jordan Ryder
Before his show on Tuesday, March 8, I admit I had never heard of K-Von. He’s been on “Disaster Date” and “Last Comic Standing,” though, so I figured he must be funny.
It turns out that he’s multitalented. In addition to the traditional comic format, he incorporated video and rap in his show.
It was a small crowd, most people too busy studying for midterms to attend, I imagine. K-Von worked with it well though, poking fun at the Campus Activities Board members for hosting the show and then being the majority of the audience and praising late-comers as “real audience members.” However, the intimate crowd was actually nice, allowing him to interact with individuals much more.
Most of the show was jokes on gender politics, highlighting the difference between behaviors: “Women are getting tougher … [they] sit on the edge of chairs, they’re ready to move left, right, kick you in the balls.”
He wasn’t afraid to make fun of women, too. He addressed the recent protest against Barbie’s lack of realistic proportions and highlighted how one-sided the argument was. “You want to talk about realistic — Ken doesn’t have a dick.”
K-Von had a very clever way of dissecting and flipping words. My favorite was “Handsome isn’t a compliment. It has two words: hand and some. If it was a compliment, it’d be handnever.”
Another part of his act was discussing the benefits of mixed heritage. Being half-Persian, he talked about how he would “turn it up” when talking to girls (he hit on women in the crowd as examples) and then turn it back down in other situations.
“I like being half-and-half, because you can switch,” he said. “I can turn the Middle Easterness up and down. Like when I go to the airport, I turn it all the way off.”
The highlight of the show was his rap performance. K-Von had written a rap about Muzaffar Faroqui, a 7-11 cashier that sold one of the record-setting winning Powerball tickets in January and received a $1 million bonus for doing so. The song, on YouTube as “Powerball Pump,” is filled with cashier stereotypes. Not only was the song entertaining, but K-Von himself had impressive rap skills, fast and clear while using an Indian accent. He had the video playing on a projector behind, and he’s the only comic I’ve seen have multimedia elements in his standup routine.
K-Von is a rising star of the comedy world, audacious, fearless, and multitalented. He’s worth going to see, and I want to be in the front row at his next performance.