All-Star Comedy Lineup: The Next Big Thing

*Doors at 8pm, Show at 8:30pm*

Hatem Gabr presents The Next Big Thing, an All-Star Standup Comedy Show, starring some of the nation's hottest comedians.

Two nights a month at the Williams Center!

Lineup:
Liz Glazer

Liz is a standup comedian who used to be a tenured law professor. She's won festivals (Boston Comedy Festival and Ladies of Laughter first place winner), released an album that debuted at #1 on the iTunes comedy charts and stayed there for 6 consecutive days, headlined, and sold out shows at New York Comedy Festival, and recently taped a set for Don't Tell Comedy.

Laura headlines all around the country and has featured in the SLO Comedy Festival, North Carolina Comedy Festival, She-Devil Comedy Festival, 365 Comedy Festival and New York Comedy Festival. You may also be one of Laura's 623,000 followers on TikTok where she uses her comedy to do advocacy for the donor conceived community and exposes the Fertility Industry.

Jim is a comedian, writer, and podcaster, based in NYC for the past 13 years. Was a semi-finalist in NBC’s Stand Up For Diversity. Also appeared in the Milwaukee Comedy Festival, Hoboken Comedy Festival, and the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, TX. In addition, he appeared on Paramount TV's Bar Rescue. He co-host the podcast Swatches And Boomboxes with Neil Charles. Also host his own show Open Bar Talk With Jim Search, both available on iTunes and Stitcher. He wrote the book Grad School: A $70,000 Phone Charger, an autobiographical account of graduate school. The book was released independently and sold over 1,000 copies to date.

Boris Khaykin

Boris is a Brooklyn based comedian with a silent 'K' in his last name. He's performed stand up on CollegeHumor Live, as a warm for The Opposition with Jordan Klepper,and was listed by TimeOutNY as one of Brooklyn Comedy Festival's Biggest Stars. He's been featured in Broad City webisodes, Amazon Prime's Red Oaks, and is a regular guest on The Comedy Cellar's Live From America Podcast. He's a writer and director for political comedy channel We The Internet TV, where his work won a 2017 Webby Award and a 2018 Webby Award Honoree. He's also written and performed with UCB Digital sketch teams and hosts Impro(VS)tandup every month at UCB East, The Breakdown with Boris Khaykin every month at The Red Room, and co-hosts the monthly traveling comedy show Undie-Party with Justin Perez and Corinne Fisher.