Award-winning actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg brought her inimitable style and scatological humor to an appreciative audience Friday night in Alumni Arena on the University at Buffalo North Campus in Amherst.

"An Evening With Whoopi Goldberg" was part of True Blue Weekend, UBs homecoming and family weekend celebration.

Goldberg opened her act by saying she was pleased President Obama had won the the Nobel Peace Prize, and expressed puzzlement over TV pundits questioning what Obama had done to merit the award.

"After the last eight [expletive] years you have to ask?" she said.

As many fans know, much of her humor was frank, but she covered a wide variety of topics.

On health care, she said she believes the solution is simple.

"Give us the same health care youre giving to the senators," she said, "and everything will be cool."

She also added, "We dont have any money for health care, . . . but we have enough money to send a rocket to the moon to crash into it."

She also offered wry observations on sex, getting older and menopause.

"As you grow up, your breasts grow down," she said to a chorus of laughter.

She pointed to the challenges of new technology, particularly for people in their 50s — like her.

"I get things from people [using Facebook or Twitter] on the Internet that say, I want to be your friend. ' And Im like, No, I dont want to be your friend. ' I shouldnt know that youre in the bathroom. Some things you dont need to know."

On the issue of sex, she observed, "Sex is great with somebody you like or somebody you just met." She hastened to add, "I think Im just kidding."

Goldberg is one of only 10 performers to have hit the show-biz "five-fecta," winning a Grammy, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a Tony.

Known for her starring roles in movies that include "The Color Purple" "Ghost" and "Girl, Interrupted," Goldberg also has achieved success on television, Broadway and in the music industry, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She currently is moderator and co-host of the long-running daytime TV talk show "The View," after succeeding comedian Rosie ODonnell on the panel in September 2007.

Goldberg, 53, whose given name is Caryn Johnson, grew up in New York Citys Chelsea neighborhood. She was discovered by film director Mike Nichols, who brought her one-woman comedy show to Broadway in 1984. That show caught the attention of filmmaker Steven Spielberg, who offered her the central role of Celie in Spielbergs screen adaptation of the Alice Walker novel "The Color Purple," for which Goldberg earned her first Academy Award nomination in the Best Actress category in 1985.

The outspoken Goldberg has been a frequent lightning rod for controversy.

In 2007, just weeks after debuting as a co-host on "The View," she took heat for her comments that former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vicks involvement in dogfighting "was part of his cultural upbringing" and "not all that unusual" in parts of the South.

More recently, during a discussion of Polish filmmaker Roman Polanskis conviction in the rape of a 13-year-old in 1977, Goldberg characterized the crime as not "rape-rape."

Goldberg later clarified that she was "only referring" to the legal statutory rape charge against Polanksi and that her comment was not intended to support his release by Swiss authorities, from whom the United States is seeking his extradition.