Sweets and laughs were both abundant on Dec. 5 as part of Campus Programming and Relations’ Stand Up Saturday series. Jessi Campbell returned for the second time to perform in the Markee Pioneer Student Center. CPR began the evening with a “Laughy Taffy” preshow consisting of five competitions and at 8 p.m. Campbell took the stage.

Event Producer Samantha Way and Director of Student Activities David Nevins said that a former CPR producer, Holly Suttcliffe, had brought Campbell to preform about three years ago. Campbell said that she was happy she had been invited back.

“I go where people want me,” said Campbell. “It’s more about them asking me, I’ll always come back.”

Way said that one of the reasons CPR asked Campbell to return to UW-Platteville was because she earned a positive response the first time she performed. Nevins said that another reason was seeing her perform at a regional National Association for Campus Actives conference in Madison.

“She was one of those [comedians] where it was a room full of college students and she had the entire room just rolling,” said Nevins.

CPR led several events prior to Campbell taking the stage. At check in, attendees guessed how many Skittles were in a jar, and attempt to blow a single bubble from a bubble wand to win a free ticket to the Dollar Movie Night on Dec. 8. Small bags of candy were also handed out.

CPR volunteers then asked for volunteers to take part in three challenges. The first was a competition to see who could open and eat a chocolate bar in the least amount of time without using their hands, the second was a challenge to find three gummy bears in a tin filled with whipped cream using their mouth and the last was moving Skittles from one bowl to another with a straw.

When Campbell took the stage, she commented on the preshow and poked fun at the second competition. She compared it to a vagina.
“Can you find that tiny thing in that giant mess?” Campbell said.

With this being Campbell’s second performance at Stand Up Saturday, this is also her second time chiming in about the preshow. The first time Campbell performed there was a bacon-based event prior to her taking the stage. Campbell, a vegetarian at the time, did not say anything until she took the stage.

“We had no idea that she was a vegetarian when she was here last time,” Nevins said.

Nevins said that last time she took the stage and commented on the preshow she asked if anyone knew that she was a vegetarian.

“All the CPR people got flushed and embarrassed and it was really funny,” said Nevins. “She had a great time laughing at us.”

Campbell said she is no longer a vegetarian and that bacon was to blame for that.

“It was like ‘Oh my God, bacon is too delicious,’” said Campbell. “That’s it, there’s no moral.”

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