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!

Chris Lamberth
Chris Lamberth is a native of Prince George's County, MD living in the New York City area. He has shared the stage with a variety of national headliners including Bill Burr, D.L. Hughley, Craig Robinson, Marc Maron and Maria Bamford. He has performed on AXS TV's Gotham Comedy Live and the 2 Dope Queens Podcast. As an actor, he earned an MFA from The Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. He was recently seen in the TONY Award-winning play The Lehman Trilogy directed by Sam Mendes. His TV/film credits include Harlem, High Maintenance, Mindhunter, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Orange Is The New Black, and the Oscar nominated film Can You Ever Forgive Me?. He also hosts the Mundane Festival—a weekly show available wherever podcasts are found.

Alex Grubard
Alex Grubard is a stand-up comedian, writer, game show host and producer, but he is not a musician. His first album "Let Me Teach You How To Distill Gin" was released on Helium Comedy Records in 2021. Grubard is host and creator of Weeding Out The Stoned and has performed sketch comedy on Comedy Central, stand-up on mtvU and heard on SiriusXM. He has appeared at Cape Fear Comedy Festival, Jersey City Comedy Festival and competed in the Seattle International Comedy Competition. He refuses to learn an instrument.

Jim Search

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.

Bryan McKenna

Bryan is a Stand Up Comedian from New York, NY. Bryan has been featured in the LaughYourAshvilleOFF Comedy Festival, a finalist in the Carolines on Broadway March Madness Competition, as well as a finalist at The Boston Comedy Festival in 2021. He has been seen touring nationally opening for Jim Breuer and in March 2020 Bryan’s 1st album, Jim Breuer Presents Bryan McKenna “The Fight is Never Over” under the label Virtual Comedy Network debuted at #1 on iTunes.  When he isn’t touring Bryan performs nightly at various NYC comedy clubs such as Broadway Comedy Club, Carolines on Broadway, and Eastville Comedy Club.  The weirdest part about this bio is that Bryan wrote it, yet he still wrote it in the 3rd person.