Program Board will bring the Fat Boys to campus for a concert in April, PB Chair Big Melonson said Tuesday.

Melonson said PB members hope the Fat Boys concert will help earn back the more than $40,000 PB lost on a Blues Traveler concert last fall.

“We’re in the hole financially,” he said. “So we went all out and found the big name group that students want. Everyone loves the Fat Boys, baby! We’re keepin’ it real. Say it with me, yeah boooooooooooy!”

PB members said they are planning “Fat Boys Week” at GW, with a showing of the film Disorderlies April 15 to open the festivities. The concert will be April 16.

April 17, the Fat Boys will host a break dancing and open-mic night in J Street, sponsored by GW’s Ballroom and Other Old School Dances Society. A one hour break-dancing lesson will be held at 8 p.m. with open dancin’ and rappin’ to follow. Students should bring their own cardboard mats.

“PB’s not out of touch, we know what the students want,” Melonson said. “We worked hard to dig these guys up because we know students want a big-name band, and we delivered. It took a lot of hard work to get the Fat Boys. We first tried Menudo, Grand-Master Flash and White Snake but they weren’t available.”

Asked if PB had gotten any positive feedback from students or any ticket requests, Melonson hung his head and said “shut up” in a catty voice. “People care about PB. We’re PB!. I’m the man! I’m what happens here!”

The only student reaction so far has come from the newly formed student group GW’s Hypersensitive Mo-fos. A group representative said he was offended by the use of the word “fat” in the group’s title.

“It’s so insensitive,” Paul Litical Correctightass said. “Couldn’t they have called themselves the Just-a Little-Overweight Boys or the Horizontally Challenged Boys.”

“Oh, call someone who cares,” Melonson said in response to the criticism. “Fuck those fat-ass bitches, we want the people that matter to get involved with this, not those whiny fucks.”

For ticket information, students should call 1-800-KICK-IT or stop by the SurchargeMaster in the Marvin Center. General admission is $25, but $24.75 for GW students. Students must show their GWorld cards to get the discount. To get tickets, students must fill out a ticket-request form in triplicate and bring it to GW’s Office of Bureaucratic Bullshit and Student Manipulation, where they must pay a processing fee. Tickets will be sent out in two to three weeks, which may or may not be in time for the concert.