The Wife and I journeyed to West Lafayette last night to see the comedian Lewis Black at Elliott Hall, a massive, 6,000-seat proscenium theatre. He was as good as you would think he would be, which is to say, very good. Having come up by touring the college ranks, his local humor (about Purdue, Boilermakers, and engineers) was unforced. His opening act, John Bowman, was also funny — concentrating his act on “marketers”. Since this is a family blog, I can’t really repeat any of the jokes. Well, maybe not. On Joe Lieberman – “Have you seen his teeth? Never trust a Jew who needs a dentist.” On Mike Huckabee believe every word of the Bible is true – “[Jews] wrote the thing, and even we don’t believe it.” On people who wait until marriage to have sex – “You are gamblers on a level I can’t even comprehend.” A lot of different subjects were covered, and since the tour was sponsored by Comedy Central, I assume they’ll package a later version of this act as an hour special. He was up there for a good hour and fifteen minutes. Very much worth the seventy-five minute drive.

Yes, I didn’t see the Bears game. At the show, there were a preponderance of Brian Urlacher Bears jerseys with a smattering of others (Devin Hester, Robbie Gould, and even Muhsin Muhammad, who’s not on the team any more.) On the other side, there were Peyton Manning jerseys (worn almost exclusively by women) and Bob Sanders jerseys.