“Dating with Dave” gives students 'dating advice' with skits, songs
Students are brought on stage to play a game during Dating with Dave hosted by stand- up comedian Dave Adhoot on Dec. 6, 2016 at the Bovee University Center.
Students struggled to find seats while waiting for Dave Ahdoot to come on stage.
The New York comedian has appeared on MTV’s "Made," "Girl Code," "Guy Code," "The Tonight Show," and VH1. Ahdoot is also an actor and producer with an upcoming show he will be starring in called “My Time/Your Time.”
Program Board hosted "Dating with Dave Ahdoot" Tuesday night in the Bovee University Center Rotunda.
“He was hilarious, super entertaining and very talented,” Detroit sophomore Claire Berg said.
The interactive performance gave students relationship advice while featuring demonstrations, improvisation, songs and accents.
Ahdoot opened the show by asking the audience who was single and who was in a relationship.
“We’re going to try to change that (being single). We’re going to try to make some love connections,” Ahdoot said.
Ahdoot said he had done research about Central Michigan University before the event and said it seemed like the dating scene was “not fantastic here.”
He asked a Program Board member to come onstage and asked the audience to make up a name for the student. The audience chose to name them Tina.
Ahdoot named himself Becky.
“We’re going to show this whole crowd a day in the life of a female CMU student,” Ahdoot said.
They then started acted out a skit. Tina invited Becky to his dorm while talking in high pitched voices.
Becky helped Tina pick out an outfit to wear for the day.
“I’m going to put on my leggings obviously, I wear them everyday. I can wear them as pants — it doesn’t matter, they make my butt look better,” Ahdoot said. “Next, my riding boots, just incase a horse shows up on campus I’ll just be ready to go, riding boots all day, everyday.”
After leaving ‘the dorm’, they were planned to visit the cafeteria and walk around campus. However, they couldn’t find a parking spot.
“We’re getting Mongolian. I don’t care if we have to wait 45 minutes, I’m going to wait for that sweet, sweet barbeque,” Ahdoot said.
Becky had mentioned it was his birthday and he wanted to go to Wayside Central.
He asked Tina to show him dance moves. Tina began to move back and forth while snapping his fingers.
Once the skit ended, Ahdoot thanked the student for coming onstage and began to talk about accents.
“One tactic I’ve learned that works in picking up the ladies or guys is using accents,” Ahdoot said.
He began to speak Russian and then Chinese after asking the audience what accents he should use.
Ahdoot asked the audience if there was anyone who had been on a bad first date that was their fault. A girl raised her hand and went onstage.
The girl explained that she had met a guy on Tinder and they went on an ice skating date where he had split his hand open.
“I don’t think it’s ever good to do anything on the first date where you can’t speak, like movies are not a good date because you sit in silence for two hours,” Ahdoot said.
The two of them played the date out and Ahdoot pretended that once he had split his hand open. he died.
“My mom actually texted me and said that this looks like fun for you and I was like ‘wow thanks mom,’” Lake Orion freshman Meagan Wander said.
The audience were asked if they had any dating questions for Ahdoot.
A student asked him about a bad first date Ahdoot had gone on and he explained a time that a woman had thrown up on his face.
He was then asked about advice on long distance relationships. Ahdoot responded by telling the student to just get out.
A couple from the audience had come on stage and were asked a few questions about their relationship. In response, Ahdoot began to sing a R&B song about all the information that the couple had given him.
“What we’re about to do right now is a little dating game, CMU style,” Ahdoot said.
A girl from the audience had volunteered to come up and was told to face backwards, towards the curtains.
Three men were then asked to come onstage and sit beside a long poster board. She sat in a chair facing the opposite side of the board, so that she couldn’t see the three guys. The guys were then asked four questions and the girl had to pick which guy she liked best.
“Who would you like to spend the rest of your life with bachelor number 1, 2 or 3,” Ahdoot asked.
She chose bachelor number two.The show ended by the two meeting each other and were told to slow dance with one another for their first dance.
“Have a good night and go and make some sweet love,” Ahdoot said and exited the stage.
