The English Majors and Minors Club’s open mic poetry event was scandalized by a student’s stand up comedy of sexually explicit content detailing his first handjob experience, leading to English professor Jason Casem ending his performance.
Listen to student John Dy’s performance, where he discussed his first handjob.
Student John Dy began his stand up comedy act by saying, “The best handjob I had ever received was from a girl who had never given one before.”
“You ever get a handjob from a girl who had never given one before, it’s not pleasant usually.”
Dy then moved onto talking about Yaoi, which features sexual romance between men and is targeted towards women.
English department professor and club adviser for the English Majors and Minors Jason Casem, stopped his performance.
“I spoke with the department heads and creative writing committee – I have no desire to reiterate those opinions again,” Casem told the Viking News about his perspective on the performance at the open mic.
Dy took a seat as the remaining volunteers presented at the open mic, and the event continued with other students and professors volunteering to present their poems and renditions of famous classic literature scenes.
Having heard about the event through his creative writing professor, Dy prepared his comedy act the day before open mic.
“These were the strongest, I made some people laugh with them so I thought they were alright,” Dy said about his comedy act.
Dy also plans on performing at the English Majors and Minors club’s next open mic, where audience members can expect jokes about his brother.
Student Matthew Jacobs took the stage to present three poems written by himself, entitled “Note to Kathryn McMurray,” “In California,” and ended with “Oedipus the Community College Student.”
Listen to student Matthew Jacobs performance.
Jacobs surprised the audience with his reading of “Oedipus the Community College Student,” where he mentions professor Laura Wheeler, an English professor at LBCC.
“My therapist reminded me that I am a sex addict, my therapist reminded me that fucking my professor would not retroactively fix my childhood, my therapist reminded me that fucking my professor would not retroactively make my mother have loved me or wanted me,” Jacobs said in his poem.
“But as I left my therapist’s office I thought to myself, it couldn’t hurt to try. On an unrelated note I should stop by Laura Wheelers office to ask for help in correcting the grammar on this poem or even just to say hi,” Jacobs concluded his performance.
Jacobs’s open mic poetry reading left the audience and fellow volunteers laughing, as they clapped for him.
Professor Laura Wheeler declined to speak on Jacobs’ open mic reading performance and preferred to move past the performance.
Fourth year student Alexis Hozie-Alfardo presented a rough draft of her poem entitled “The Art of Anxiety,” about her personal coping mechanisms in living with and beside anxiety.
“It’s supposed to make sense but also be slightly chaotic as anxiety is, it’s talking about looking back at your worst times and your best times of dealing with it and being able to build on that and become better from it,” Alfardo said.
English Majors and Minors club Vice President, Emily Thompson, presented her poem titled “Autumn Shows Us How Beautiful It Is To Let Things Go,” which is published in the fourth volume of the club’s literary journal, Saga.
Through the English department, the club’s literary journal is open for student participation and is currently taking submissions for their next issue which allows students a chance to have their writing published.
“It’s mostly poetry along with some fiction and nonfiction, we will be putting out volume five in the spring – and it’s really sweet and really cool,” Thompson said.
Saga is available for purchase through Amazon and the school bookstore. Club members can also purchase their own copy through their meetings where limited quantities are offered.
Open mic ended with an invitation to the club’s weekly meeting, every Thursday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., and their next open mic for the semester on October 31st.