Miele poses for a photo following her performance.
Photo by Haley McCord
On Wednesday, October 7, comedian Liz Miele once again took the stage in the Jean and Jerry Beasley Student Center as part of the Homecoming 2015 festivities. Students gathered at Subway Sides to unwind and listen to a few jokes from her newest album entitled “Emotionally Exhausted.”
According to LizMiele.com, “Liz Miele started doing stand-up comedy at 16. At 18 she was profiled in the New Yorker. At 22 she appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. Liz continues to perform stand-up comedy all over the country at clubs and colleges. She’s a comedy nerd, a cat enthusiast and has an unhealthy love for all things sweet. When she is not taking an obscene amount of pictures of her cats she is reading something disturbingly sad or pretentiously upbeat and hopeful.”
The show was scheduled to begin at 9:00 sharp, but the event began twenty minutes late. Initially, there were only four students in the audience, but more students began to take their seats as the evening progressed. Overall, the attendance topped out at around thirty students.
Miele began telling jokes about West Virginia and the lack of entertainment in the area. She exclaimed that, “The only thing you guys have in this state is cows!” During the beginning of the show, the audience seemed energetic and attentive, but Miele soon ran out of state jokes. As she began to address certain members of the audience in order to find new material and relate to the students, they became distant, uninterested and bored. The majority of the audience did not want to speak to Miele and wished she would have told more jokes instead of trying to hold individual conversations. An anonymous individual said “She wasn’t bad, but she definitely could have been better. I think she came to Concord last year and nobody really came to the show, so I wonder why they brought her back.”
Another student who wishes to remain anonymous said, “She was terrible! I can’t believe the school brought her back! She tries too hard.” Unfortunately, neither of these interviewed students loved the performance, but other interesting and highly rated performances can be found on YouTube.
It’s possible that Miele just had an off night; she seems like an overall energetic and happy person that loves to travel and share laughs with people from all around the world. According to LizMiele.com, “She [Miele] is on a constant search to prove or disprove that she is losing her mind… “
After the performance, Miele encouraged students to buy tee-shirts, wrist bands and her newest album from a nearby table. Liz Miele’s newest album is available on iTunes and Amazon. For a list of upcoming performances or any other information about Liz Miele, visit Lizmiele.com.