Spring Break
Titus to take over LSC Ballroom
Johnny Hart
Issue date: 4/24/09 Section: Entertainment
Christopher Titus stood on a picnic table one time for 45 minutes and performed his comedy in the middle of a park -- a gig he thought was going to be in a ballroom. Another time he performed just 30 feet from people playing pool, where he said they didn't even turn off the lights.
But far-and-away Titus' strangest show, he said, came after a performance with a fellow comedian. Doubling his rate to $300, the northern California-born comedian agreed to play a house party -- which turned out to be two people and a dog.
"The dog did not think I was funny at all," Titus said in a phone interview while taking his son to the skate park.
Titus' price has gone up significantly since his days of house parties. He'll be racking in somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 for his performance in the Lory Student Center Ballroom Sunday night at 7 p.m.
Titus proudly boasted that his 7-year-old daughter has started wake boarding, along with trips to the skate park with his son. He said the two ski and will be learning to snowboard.
"I'm so much younger because of them," he said.
Usually, Titus flies out late the night before the show. He rises early to fit the daily grind into the short day, making radio appearances, working out, talking to his agent and putting on what he calls his "game face" for his show. His comedy usually personifies his fearless and fiery lifestyle.
"Dying is easy; comedy is hard," he said. However, he believes that "the day I stops being nervous is the day I'll stop doing comedy"-- a similar sentiment he strives to instill in his children.
He believes in the mantra that if you push your kids down a "sheet of ice" they'll never be afraid of anything, especially "sub-prime loans when they're 25."
Titus says he's "really arrogant about laughter." He said comedy is "way harder" than other performance art, specifically music.
"You're about to go out alone with jokes that may or may not work and tell them to a crowd of 400 people. Wouldn't you be nervous?" he asked. "You can't buy laughter."
But far-and-away Titus' strangest show, he said, came after a performance with a fellow comedian. Doubling his rate to $300, the northern California-born comedian agreed to play a house party -- which turned out to be two people and a dog.
"The dog did not think I was funny at all," Titus said in a phone interview while taking his son to the skate park.
Titus' price has gone up significantly since his days of house parties. He'll be racking in somewhere between $20,000 and $30,000 for his performance in the Lory Student Center Ballroom Sunday night at 7 p.m.
Titus proudly boasted that his 7-year-old daughter has started wake boarding, along with trips to the skate park with his son. He said the two ski and will be learning to snowboard.
"I'm so much younger because of them," he said.
Usually, Titus flies out late the night before the show. He rises early to fit the daily grind into the short day, making radio appearances, working out, talking to his agent and putting on what he calls his "game face" for his show. His comedy usually personifies his fearless and fiery lifestyle.
"Dying is easy; comedy is hard," he said. However, he believes that "the day I stops being nervous is the day I'll stop doing comedy"-- a similar sentiment he strives to instill in his children.
He believes in the mantra that if you push your kids down a "sheet of ice" they'll never be afraid of anything, especially "sub-prime loans when they're 25."
Titus says he's "really arrogant about laughter." He said comedy is "way harder" than other performance art, specifically music.
"You're about to go out alone with jokes that may or may not work and tell them to a crowd of 400 people. Wouldn't you be nervous?" he asked. "You can't buy laughter."
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