By Daniel Stoller

Accompanied by a bevy of polo-shirted friends, Ryan Clauson swept into the club and quickly altered the pensive afterHOURS atmosphere. The focus shifted from two quiet singers to the large, loud man in the back of the room: Clauson.

Clauson, a middler theatre major known for his Campus Pulse segment on NUTV, began the 20-minute show, titled “Ten Minutes of Fun,”with a call for chairs in the middle, forcing the audience closer to the stage, where he stood at a podium.

After a few minutes of exercises designed to break down the personal barriers of the audience, Clauson embarked upon the main act, “transformational entertainment.”This is mostly what Clauson performs – stand-up comedy with a self-improvement bent.

To deliver this combination, Clauson utilized the “shock jock”brand of comedy. From his story of being thrown out of a Somerville club for vulgarity to his almost non-stop discussion of phalluses big and small, Clauson presented a show peppered with adult language.

Clauson gave audience members advice on staying positive.

“I lost my computer, man. It’s gone,”Clauson said. “And what’s worse is that I lost 20 years of porn