He began the show as a form of alternative entertainment for MSU students, who he feels have boring and often repetitive options for a night out in East Lansing. The show was free, although donations were accepted after the show.

“I’ve been in MSU for two years now,” Gannon said. “And I’ve found that the only things there were to do were, besides UAB events … It seemed like everyone’s activity for the night was like, ‘Oh, whose house are we going to go at, get really drunk?’”

He said this motivated him to host the show.

Gannon, who has been doing comedy for four years, opened the show with a 15-minute set and then announced every subsequent act.

He was followed by his co-producer, zoology senior Brandon Bonebrake, who performed for around 10 minutes and was followed by Kalamazoo comedian Andrew Van Houten, who performed for about 20 minutes.

Last up was the show’s headline comedian, Stewart Huff, who has been doing comedy for 16 years and used to work pitching shows for the TV network Adult Swim.

Huff’s act, lasting nearly an hour, revolved around a central theme that all humans are scared, curious poets, who emphasize that the three words “I don’t know” are more powerful than “I love you.” Self-aware of the underlying philosophical themes in his act, which the audience responded very well to, he ended the act with a powerful story of his grandmother’s death to drive his central point home.

He said he appreciates making deeper points through comedy. His performance tried to show that humans are scared, curious poets.

“That’s in my head, that point is in my brain and then the last five minutes I put it from my brain into my heart,” Huff said. “A person I care about died. Do I still believe what my head believes?”

The crowd universally loved the show, with the donation jar filling up quickly. Huff also sold CDs of a comedy routine of his, with entirely different jokes.

Both of the producers of the show, Gannon and Bonebrake saw the event as a huge success. They said word of mouth to promote the show worked better than they had predicted, with the attendance at 50 far exceeding their expectations.

“There’s only been two house shows we’ve ever done in Michigan,” Bonebrake said. “As far as I can tell, I’ve been doing it two years, and this went way better than I thought it would.”

Bonebrake had only expected 20 to 30 people to show up.

Gannon has a few different ideas on how to improve the show for next time, especially in regards to seating and lighting. He said if attendance maintains strong during the winter, he will consider the show a success.

There also is a Facebook fanpage used for planning and announcing future events titled “825 Albert Comedy,” which currently has over 80 likes.

Huff met Gannon in South Bend, and was contacted via email to do a house show like this, which Huff willingly accepted. He said that the audience was very responsive to his type of comedy, better than a lot of shows of this nature.

“I’ve done frat houses before that are horrible,” Huff said. “It’s like people yelling, they won’t shut up, they’re just drunk. This was great. People listened, they laughed and I could talk about philosophy for two or three minutes and they’re still with me. When I hit a punch line, they start laughing.”