Bobby Lee killed.

Seeing Lee, who performed last Thursday night in the University Union Ballroom, is about as good as it gets and was an experience that everyone who attended the free show will never forget.

The packed house was in an uproar watching Lee’s standup routine. He even included the audience in his show, once asking the audience to participate by coming up with a stripper name for him – “Dirty Egg Roll.”

Lee, in “tighty whities” rolled up like a thong, went on to give a few lucky students lap dances on stage. The jokes were dirty, raunchy and even disgusting at times. But most importantly they were funny.

“Some of the colleges I get booked, I cancel, but this morning I shot a sketch, and I have to fly back tomorrow morning by five,” Lee said in an interview after the show. “I’m glad that I was able to fit this in, you know what I mean? I love this whole area, because there’s a lot of ethnic people and it’s also a good vibe, you know?”

Bobby Lee started his career in his hometown of San Diego, where he met Pauly Shore at a comedy club on amateur night. He hasn’t looked back since. He has worked extensively with comedians Shore and Carlos Mencia on the road for 10 years.

Lee is working on two upcoming projects. The first is “Kickin it Old School,” a movie about break dancing starring Jamie Kennedy and Vivica A. Fox. He is the fourth lead and said he is excited about it. He will also be in a horror comedy directed by Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) in which Lee will play the devil. He will also be back for at least one more season at “Mad TV.”

“My style is ethnic and edgy, like Mencia,” Lee said. “But also, it’s kinda sloppy like Pauly in many ways. It’s kinda like, uhhhh – you know what I mean?”

Lee has performed regularly on “Mad TV” for the past five seasons, where he has played many various characters, including Connie Chung, Bae Sung and Barbara Walters. His favorite skits are based on the show “24.”

“I get to write ’em – and it’s more my sensibilities,” Lee said. It’s more violence. In two weeks I wrote one that’s gonna be my best one. It’s an opus.”

Lee is influenced by some of the best, crediting Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Dane Cook. His raw, uncut and shocking style resembles comics before him, but at the same time is original and fresh.

“I never really thought that it would work out for me,” Lee said. “I was always a late night comic in front of 10 people and things have kind of caught up a little. It just seems like things are kind of coming my way, you know? I stuck to my guns. Everyone was like, when I first started, ‘you’re too dirty,’ or, ‘you’re too crazy.’ I didn’t listen to them. I just kept doing what I wanna do. The kind of humor that I want.”

His work ethic has propelled Lee to the forefront of standup and sketch comedy.

“I think, next to Margaret Cho, I’m one of the guys,” Lee said in response to being recognized as one of a prominent Korean-American comic. “Margaret, I’m very good friends with her – and she started it for me, you know, when I used to see her. She was very funny and still, to this day, when I see her perform, I’m amazed.

“I love her so much. I’m also glad there’s a male perspective to that whole thing. Everyone thought she was crazy, and then I can come along and be crazy too.”

Lee isn’t just all fun and games; he is planning a five-mile walk for a cancer association to honor one of his producers who just beat cancer.

He signed autographs for 90 minutes after the show and admitted he has gone so far as to bring his fans to dinner.

“If it’s a crowd of 200 people, I’ll take ’em all to dinner.” Lee said. “This crowd was too big though, I couldn’t afford it.”

Galen Kusic can be reached at [email protected]