a very funny Cajun stand up and improv comedian who happens to also be a traffic safety expert!
Steve has performed his very unique and extremely funny safety presentation to over 100,000 people so far. Steve mostly performs these days for our brave troops in the United States military.
Church fills void in G-rated fun at its comedy night July 31, 2003
 HOWARD LIPIN / Union-Tribune Steve Verret goes through his routine during Comedy Night. |
By the time the lights went up, the audience was spent. A couple of hours of laughter has a way of doing that.
"It was hilarious," said Alyse Phillips, a 13-year-old Encinitas resident. "There weren't any dirty jokes. They were clean, but they weren't corny. It was funny."
Jim Lyerla was still smiling. "It just kept me laughing," said the 59-year-old Encinitas man. "There was nothing negative about it."
Both were among more than 300 people who were at Daybreak Community Church in Carlsbad for its second Comedy Night, two hours of music, jokes and illusionist tricks that turned the auditorium where worship services are usually held into a G-rated club.
Comedy Night is the brainchild of Steve Verret, the church's curly haired drama director, a self-described Cajun and longtime stand-up comic whose gigs go back to such not-so-sacred venues as the Improv.
"I realized there was no place around here to get good, clean fun," said Verret, who also puts on comedy-laced traffic schools and corporate seminars on safety.
Christians aren't alone in the sentiment that cleanliness of jokes may be next to godliness.