Kate McKinnon told audience members in McCrary Theatre from the start that she was going to “get real” with them. And It doesn’t get much more real than unapologetically recounting the time she pooped on the floor of her college dorm room. Or so you would think.

If anyone ever had doubts, McKinnon proved to everyone in the audience that poop humor is, in fact, hilarious — especially when it’s anecdotal — and that the realities of the female anatomy can, indeed, be a source of adversity and comedic gold at the same time.

From her impressions of The Food Network’s Ina Garten and the emotionally stunted Bachelor to self-deprecating tales of bodily mishaps, McKinnon kept the show moving with an assortment of comedic bits and monologues. Each one directly related to college students, and a few specifically linked to Elon University. She received big laughs when she asked a student to choose who's hotter between President Leo Lambert and Smith Jackson (but when is it not funny to objectify our university administrators?).

Based on audience reactions, it would appear some of the people present actually soiled their pants from laughing so hard — but in a different way than McKinnon said she did in her college admissions interview.

Specifically targeting university seniors, McKinnon’s swipe at pretentious and stupid senior thesis titles turned into a tech nightmare. The music and slideshow failed to synchronize, but she saved that portion of the show with an improvised musical number during which she called the person in charge of the tech booth a failure. She then immediately retracted the statement. She’s so nice that way.

In an effort to learn more about Elon, McKinnon invited a tour guide to the stage and questioned his knowledge of the campus. Now that she knows the best place to take a “private poop,” maybe she’ll come back.

The show ended on a high note with a dramatic interpretation of Miley Cyrus’ “We Can’t Stop,” which took the song’s semi-psycho overtones to new heights. The monologue also put a nice bookend on the performance since she galloped onto the stage one hour earlier to the tune of Beyoncé.

McKinnon’s Feb. 19 performance easily sets the bar for future performances sponsored by the Student Union Board, especially after two straight years of SNL performer appearances.