Nothing's sacred for Mo Rocca

Everything was fair game Wednesday night in Alumni Hall and the result, by all accounts, was hilarious.\nMo Rocca, a senior correspondent and comic for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," shared his views on everything from the war in Iraq to reality television to life on "The Daily Show," entertaining a near capacity crowd of students.\n"I love (performing), I love it," Rocca said after the show. "A large number of the fans seem to be college kids, which is a great audience because they all invite me out afterwards and give me free beer."\nFreshman Cody Bell, assistant director of Union Board Comedy Committee, said he was impressed with the show and the turnout. \n"It was one of the funniest shows I've seen all year, bar none," he said. "It was great. He had the crowd in the palm of his hand, and it was really good."\nRocca began the evening by going through a series of current events and adding his sarcastic assessment. He joked that "American Idol" voting showed young people aren't disenfranchised with the democratic process and how it used to be only Oscar-winning celebrities who could speak against war.\n"I dream of a time when Oscar winners will one day be able to hold hands with Emmy Nominees and cram our politics down your throats," he joked. \nRocca then showed a tie, a throw pillow and an oven mitt he made out of leftover duct tape and plastic wrap he bought after hearing the warnings of chemical war. \nHe quizzed IU senior Ryan Clayton on IU history, the last question being "Which feature film was shot in Teter Quad last year?" \nClayton answered "Campus Invasion" after some thinking and audience help and was awarded a prize -- a pair of plastic wrap boxers he proudly wore as he walked back offstage.\n"It was awesome being up there with him, he's such a funny guy," Clayton said. "The boxers -- they're going up on my wall."\nRocca then went into a PowerPoint presentation of his life, chronicling his move from the children's television show "Wishbone" to the adult magazine "Perfect Ten" to his current role on "The Daily Show."\nRocca showed the audience a handful of clips, both stories that appeared on "The Daily Show" and others. In one he jabbed a babbling political pundit in the face with his microphone outside a political convention, as the pundit talked on and showed no response. Another clip was Rocca on "The O'Reilly Factor" fiercely debating with a representative of Concerned Women for America over a new lingerie Barbie. \n"Would you rather your daughter pretend to be a hooker or a crack whore or would you rather she actually be one," he said in a perfectly straight face, drawing gasps from the spokeswoman and host and and laughs from the audience. \nRocca finished with a question-and-answer session, in which he talked about being a big fan of visiting presidents' graves and houses and said given three wishes, one would be for "sushi on command." \nSophomore Jeremy Karnowski was first in line for the show and also first to hop on stage at its finish to shake Rocca's hand and get an autograph. \n"It was excellent," he said. "It was a giant dose of what I love at home and the inside stories were great." \nIn a rare instance of seriousness, Rocca said he enjoyed his trip to IU.\n"My only disappointment is that I didn't come earlier," he said. "The campus is beautiful and IU is a really storied place. It's really cool -- you guys figured out the structure of DNA and invented Crest toothpaste"