Comedian jokes about his disability

By Lindsay Ritzmann
Staff Writer

The Disabled Student Organization and Student Activities Board set up a comedic performance on Oct. 6 for a well-known comedian in the entertainment industry but new to our campus, Will Morfori.

The performance was held in the UC but was later than expected because many of the posters and billboards told most of the audience that the performance would be at GPAC and at an earlier time.

Morfori came out stumbling all over the place and announced that “he may sound like he is drunk but this is what a person sounds like on CP.”

Cerebral Palsy, otherwise known as CP, is a condition that affects thousands of babies and children each year.

It is not contagious, which means you can't catch it from anyone who has it. The word cerebral means having to do with the brain. The word palsy means a weakness or problem in the way a person moves or positions his or her body.

Morfori’s performance was a burst full of energy and excitement.

Jokes were cracking back and forth about Michael Jackson and others.

As the performance went on, relaxation and laughing was spread all over the audience and people were more at ease with some of his language and the way he approached jokes that consisted of his disability.

Many members of the audience did not suffer from a disability so it was a little harder to lighten up to such a different approach to his comedy.

“Many of his jokes were really funny and had me laughing all the time,” UNCP student Colette Pond said. “But at the same time some of the jokes were a little too burlesque for my taste and I didn't care for it.”