By Reuben Wadsworth

Utah wasn't the only place comedian Darren Carter made fun of during his hour-long show Wednesday night in the Taggart Student Center's Sunburst Lounge sponsored by the Student Activity Board of the Associated Students of Utah State University.

"Pocatello sounds like it's something you don't want to catch," Carter said, supposedly referring to some kind of disease. "I've got to rub some Orem on that."

From his opening lines it was evident that Carter, who has opened for such acts as Chris Rock, had already spent some time in Utah doing research to discover the easiest things to make fun of. It was as if Carter was like Butch Cassidy riding into town a month before attempting a holdup to familiarize himself with his surroundings in order to make a clean getaway so no posse could find his trail.

Carter made a clean getaway in one respect.

Surprisingly, he steered clear of any jokes about the LDS church, but instead poked fun at the lack of anything for college students to do in Logan -- something all too easy to do. According to Carter, Hastings was the main hang-out in town and the prime spot for college men to pick up young women.

When hearing cheers after asking who in the audience was originally from Logan, Carter responded, "You're actually proud of this town?"

Carter's act would have been enhanced had he done even more research on the state. When he had completed the make-fun-of-Utah portion, his gig deteriorated into excessive red-head humor, Mexican gang jokes and became increasingly vulgar. He even indicated that perhaps Utahns weren't ready for California humor.

A red-head himself, Carter likely thought his hair-color humor would sustain itself and spent almost half of his act on the subject, covering everything from pasty individuals needing sunblock to looking like a rooster with his backpack on. Louder amusement slowly shifted into courtesy laughs.

Much of Carter's humor were facial expressions, body movements and voice impersonations. Though his rooster actions were forced and stiff, he did a Scooby-Doo imitation that was right on the button and received positive applause.

It seemed Carter appealed most to the Greek fraternity and sorority crowd, which made up most of the audience.

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