Music comedian Stephen Lynch performed to about 1,000 Friday in Finch Fieldhouse despite a family emergency the previous week.

Lynch, who replaced comedian Zach Galifianakis on Program Board’s schedule in August, already canceled shows on Oct. 8, 9, Thursday and Saturday while spending the week with his family in nearby Saginaw.

“I couldn’t blow you guys off, because you’re an hour from where my mom lives,” Lynch said, “and Zach (Galifianakis) already blew you guys off.”

According to The Saginaw News, Lynch’s father, Leo, died Oct. 9.

But that did not stop Lynch from singing about AIDS testing, throwing stools, impersonating Lewis Black and climbing on a fan’s chair Friday.

Touring in promotion for his album “3 Balloons,” released in March, Lynch took the stage at 8:10 p.m. in front of an enthusiastic Finch Fieldhouse crowd.

“There was definitely around 1,000,” said Pinconning junior Crysta Heckman, comedy chairwoman for Program Board. “We set up eleven hundred chairs, and they were almost all full.”

In addition to performing musical comedy with his acoustic guitar, Lynch also played a keyboard and took a moment to impersonate Galifianakis and his piano-accompanied stand-up.

The final song of the main set was a piano-fueled ode to Lynch’s wife’s breasts, accompanied with a video and photo montage of women’s breasts. Interspersed in them were images of Morgan Freeman, an octopus doing karate and Jeff Daniels, all of which were running jokes during the show.

“It makes them funnier, I think,” Lynch said. “If I had just flashed Morgan Freeman, it wouldn’t be funny, but put him between some boobs? Hilarious!”

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