The parking lot at the Convocation Center was dotted with out-of-state license plates, making it obvious that Garrison Keillor had drawn quite a crowd Thursday night.

Few guests were younger than 40, but Keillor’s jokes and anecdotes were entertaining for any age. His monologue lasted nearly two hours: sometimes he would tell jokes, sometimes he’d tell stories, and much of his set was delivered by song.

Keillor is best known for hosting “A Prairie Home Companion,” a variety-style radio show in which he recites a monologue entitled “News from Lake Wobegon,” stories about a fictional Minnesota town.

Lake Wobegon, Keillor said, was so miserable in the winter months that the only reason anyone lived there was to keep the roads plowed.

Much of his material Thursday night was in that same vein, though he catered to the Midwest crowd by referencing the Cubs dismal season and even telling a story about a past visit to DeKalb.

Despite his age, Keillor’s anecdotes occasionally bordered on risque as he described a man who bought an absurd amount of condoms from the local grocer and remembered an occasion where he had been caught, trousers down, with a girl in the bathroom at school. His stories were littered with not only comical situations, but blatant jokes too.

The biggest laugh of the night by far was when Keillor described an Adam and Eve-esque situation where the first woman created by God had three breasts. God removed one and asked “what should be done with a useless boob?” and he created man.

Keillor is witty, and his attitude and delivery style indicates why his radio show has remained so popular. His stories were all entertaining and even when he addressed bleak topics, like the death of his aunt, the mood was light.

The show was long and sometimes, during a particularly long story, it was easy to lose track of what Keillor was saying. His shorter stories were better and usually funnier, and sometimes his lengthy descriptions would be better off in print.

Mostly, though, he kept the audience’s attention and provided a very entertaining atmosphere. Judging by the enthusiastic audience, this one man show was a definite crowd-pleaser.