These guys aren’t just performers, they’re funny people. Backstage, they were making each other laugh,” says Julian Kiani ’10, who organized the UGBC program that brought three alumni comedians to campus on October 23. Nearly 500 attended the “Alumni Comedy Show” in Robsham Theater, which featured Paul D’Angelo ’78, Gary Gulman ’93, and Brian Kiley ’83—popular comedians, each with numerous awards and television credits, whose show business careers began in Boston comedy clubs during, or shortly after, their college years.
Kiani got the idea for the program when he read an article about alumni comedians in an old issue of Boston College Magazine (Summer 2002). He and the UGBC campus entertainment department identified some 10 comedians whom they invited to the homecoming event, “and the program shaped itself when it turned out these three could make it.”