By Heather Panetta COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Seth Meyers has two words to describe his show No doves. "It's pretty much a stand-up show. I do a few jokes from Weekend Update, but mostly it's stuff people haven't seen before," he wrote in an e-mail Tuesday. "I have 'an improv background so I always enjoy interacting with the audience. Also you could have expected a thousand doves flying out from behind the curtains as part of a giant finale, but the dove company screwed up the delivery." _The University Park Monition Committee ( UPAC) isbringhff Meyers to the: Bryce Jordan Center (B). Meyers walperkern at Bfr Friday. Tidrets are OM for, - . for reserved seats:Tickets , •. at the BJC, the Penn State Boomtown Theatre Center or online. At ayoung age Meyer' Parents both big come dy fans introduced him to "Welty Python" and "Saturday Night Lim' Meyers wrote. Mid it was from that point on that Meyers' interest in acting and comedy blossomed to what it is today. By high school, he wrote, he was doing sketches in talent shows with his brother "I didn't go to' college (Northwestern) for acting bilt once there I saw the improv troupe and had a feeling I wanted to do that until someone told me to stop," he wrote. "It also helps that I had no other skill set that was useful in the workforce." Comedian Seth Meyers to bring said Meyers will be able to connect well with the Penn State audience because he is already part of the family. "He's a part of the Big lbn family. He went to Northwestern and was in Phi Gamma Delta, which is Flji here," he said. Though Meyers has never been to Penn State, he is excited to come here, he wrote. "The last time I saw a group of Penn State stu dents live was Now 4,1995 when the Northwestern Wildcats beat them 21-10 en mute to the Rose Bowl," he wrote. "(Is it cool to brag about something that happened 15 yeigogr 40 it make me sound old?' sly should aViHrs°ll - itanamm. 'When I theardl shuhstme from SNL filed the shah, that seemed Re a dream come true so you can imagine what gettihg hired was like," Meyers wrote. SNL taught Meyers a lot about sketch writing and for those students interested m sketch comedy or acting in general, Meyers had advice to offer "Use this time in your life to get out on stage as much as possille," he wrote. "Everyone who suc ceeds fails a lot first. The sooner Lyou] get those fail- RIDAY
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