The food. Houston has fantastic Mexican, Cajun and barbeque. I would never order any of those north of the Mason-Dixon line. That and the absence of obnoxious Yankees/Red Sox fans, who are equally intolerable.
What is your favorite restaurant in the Amherst area, and what do you usually order?
Korean Restaurant. Scallion pancakes and bulgogi. The bibimbap is also good and really fun to say.
You are this year's director for Mr. Gad's House of Improv. What would you like to tell your fans? Do you think you're the most attractive member of this year's group?
All kidding aside, I would like to thank our fans for being so loyal and making Mondays at 10 p.m. a permanent part of their schedule. The seductress Sara Sligar '10 is undeniably our hottest female. As for the guys, I would have to give that award to one of our newest members, Andy Tew. He's an actually an AC though, and can't bone students. So of the male members that you actually have a chance of getting with, I'm the most attractive.
This year's Orientation week featured a mini-class on improv comedy. What was your favorite part about facilitating that mini-class?
Recently graduated members John Timothy and William Collis both took time away from their not having jobs to come and pretend to be freshmen. John pretended to be offended at one point and ran out of the workshops screaming, which threw the frosh for a loop. Collis was less entertaining because he couldn't come up with a fake personality stranger than his actual one.
You also work at WAMH, Amherst College's student-run radio station. Name a song you played during your last show. Why did you play it? Do you often play requests?
I like to consider "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" by Velvet Underground my theme song. For one, I'm an attention whore and I get lonely if people aren't paying attention to me. That's why I do Gad's and also why I'm participating in this incredibly narcissistic interview. Also, I like to consider myself a cowboy. Interesting fact-once castrated a bull.
One of your favorite TV shows is "Lost." With which character do you identify the most, and why?
Sawyer is my favorite character because I identify with his badass Southern attitude. 'Nuff said.
In your opinion, what is your most sexually attractive quality? What is your most attractive body part?
Chicks dig funny guys. My abs are pretty sexy. I almost have a six-pack. If I flex and pinch my belly fat in the right direction, you can kinda see it.
What is your favorite sport to watch? What is your favorite team? On a scale of 1 to 10, how great of a sports fan are you?
I'm such a big sports fan that the first two questions are impossible to answer because it's like picking favorites between children. My favorite sports to watch are baseball, basketball, college football, tennis and Sundays of golf majors. My favorite teams are the Houston Astros and Rockets and the UT Longhorns.
Give the best example you can think of for the word "bad-ass."
In 1836, during the war for Texan independence, Mexican General Santa Anna, in command of about 5,000 soldiers marched his force to a poorly guarded fort in San Antonio known as the Alamo. Santa Anna sent a message to Lt. Col, William Travis, the commander of the Alamo, to surrender. Travis only had about 180 men, but without hesitation he answered Santa Anna's demand with a cannon shot. That's badass.
What is your favorite Mr. Gad's poster?
I keep all of the senior posters of former Gad's that I have known posted in my room. There are an awful lot of very funny people that I have been lucky to know and learn from. Those and the one with the bike cops.
Drink of choice?
My grandfather always told me real men drink scotch in the winter and gin and tonic in the summer. I think in general there should be more scotch consumed on the Amherst campus.
Do you have any advice for first-year students?
Come to Gad's.