Eddie Griffin, stand-up comedian and star of “Undercover Brother” and the upcoming “Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo,” will appear in Blackman Auditorium Sept. 24.

Griffin will perform for the third annual “Comedy Night,” sponsored by Kappa Sigma and the Student Government Association (SGA), said John Guilfoil, SGA vice president for student affairs and Kappa Sigma’s director of public relations.

“This is the biggest name we’ve gotten so far, so we’re very excited about it,” Guilfoil said. Past performers have included Jay Mohr and Jim Breuer.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. show will cost $5 and will go on sale in early September, Guilfoil said. In order to target freshmen, members of Kappa Sigma and SGA will sell tickets in the freshman quad and in other locations around campus as part of their “grassroots” approach.

“Instead of making the students come to us, we go to them,” Guilfoil said. This approach has succeeded in the past, Guilfoil said, as both previous years’ shows have sold out.

The organizations requested and were granted approximately $50,000 from the Budget Review Committee (BRC) for the event, Guilfoil said. He said the timing of the event, at the beginning of the semester, following fraternity Rush Week, creates a high level of excitement.

Although students, including Brian Klimm, didn’t know who Eddie Griffin is just by name, he recognized him from the movie “Deuce Bigalow,” and said he’d think about going to Griffin’s performance in September.

“If there was nothing else and a ticket was handed to me, maybe,” the middler mechanical engineering major said.

Others, including Jessica Kornfeld, a middler mechanical engineering major, said they would have preferred someone better known.

“Get a bigger name,” she said. “I would die if Dane Cook came to campus.”