Laugh after laugh rang out amongst the audience in the Performing Arts Center at Georgia Southern University as comedian “Big Chris” brought big laughs with his stand-up comedy performance, “Painfully Obvious.”

The show, which premiered on Saturday evening brought out many to support Christopher Pugh.

Pugh is known all over GSU for his involvement with the multicultural student center as well as the Minority Advisement Program and hosting performances and events.

“Everyone knows him,” Nina Laing , a senior multimedia communications major, said.

Brought to campus and coordinated by GSU’s chapter of NAACP, the show brought out a  audience that was ready to laugh the night away.

There were several opening acts  to start off the evening including an acoustic and vocal performance as a tribute to the deceased Whitney Houston. Random Acts of Poetry also brought forth a few performers of spoken word and poetry. In addition to the poets and vocalists, there were several comedians that warmed up the crowd as well. For some it was their first performance.

“The entire opening act was long but funnier than expected,” Kimaya Graham, junior biology major, said.

The host of the night, Jeremy Hill or J Money, was also a part of the laughs.

“Jeremy was really funny. It looked like he polished his routine before he came out,” Graham said.

Finally, the performer of the night, Big Chris, came out on stage and the crowd broke out in a round of applause. Pugh wasted no time and got straight to the funny business.

The overall theme of the night was “let that sink in” and “educate yourselves”.  Some things are so painfully obvious that students come across every day and Pugh made it his duty to bring these issues to the attention of many through his talent.

Topics ranged from Pugh’s child hood and his struggles as one of the plus size kids, growing up with his father who he thought was rather strange, his love life and his present day problems. No topic was  far-fetched for Pugh and he made it a point to discuss all of them.

“A lot of comedians make it personal but I liked how he talked about himself and his own personal experiences,” Laing said.

Though the night was all about laughs and having a good time, Pugh hoped that some of the messages he was sending would be understood and taken into consideration to many of those in the crowd.

“People get more stuff done when they’re  happy,” Pugh said.

Comedy is a part of his future career plans as well as motivational speaking and he plans to fuse both together for people to hear and be motivated.