Homecoming
“You have no idea how great this makes me feel,” said comic Lewis Black, as he discussed losing his virginity onstage Friday night at Silver Spring’s Springbrook High School, from which he graduated in 1966.
The angry funny man gave a special benefit performance in the school’s packed 1,100-seat auditorium.
A star of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” and his own HBO stand up specials, and coming off an appearance at the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee only days before, Black treated the audience to a full set of material. Over the hour and 20 minutes, Black touched on golf, gambling, religion and, of course, politics. He called commentator Pat Buchanan “retarded” and said “You’re better off deaf” than listening to most politicians. And consistent with the parental advisory that accompanied the show, he even brought out some of his dirtier material at the end.
As a student at Springbrook, Black co-wrote and starred in the school’s senior class production and chaired the prom and class trip committees. Of his homecoming, he said, “In 20 years as a comic, this is the first time I’ve ever looked in the mirror to see if I had pimples.”
Among those in the audience: Black’s parents, Sam and Jeannette (herself a former teacher at the school), a couple of his teachers, and alumni from every year since the school was founded in 1964. Proceeds from the $45 tickets went to the school’s booster club and PTSA scholarships.
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