Vidur Kapur, a gay comedian, will be found tantalizing UGA students on Nov. 9 at the Tate Center Theater on campus.

Kapur, often seen on Fox, VH1, and MTV, is an acclaimed comedian who happens to be gay. His performances have earned him a nomination for LOGO’s “NewNowNext” award.

The event is being sponsored by Lambda Alliance, the UGA Indian Cultural Exchange, the UGA Hispanic Student Association, and the UGA Caribbean Student Association. It is free to UGA students.

More about Kapur from his Web site:

Vidur Kapur was selected as a New York finalist by NBC’s “Stand Up for Diversity” initiative and performed as part of the famous New York Comedy Festival where he was described as “A comedian to remember”. After an phenomenally successful showcase at the NACA National convention, Vidur’s act is being demanded by colleges all over the US and he is likely to be one of the top 3 acts booked on US college campuses for ‘08 -’09.

Vidur was selected as one of the top four Asian comics in North America to perform at the world famous “Just for Laughs” Comedy Festival in Montreal in July 2006. Vidur and his stand up comedy are the subject of a short film called “Laughing Out Loud: A Comic Journey” by director Shalini Kantayya which was shown on Steven Spielberg’s “On The Lot” on FOX television. This film was voted as the favorite film by Michael Bay, Director of Transformers and by the other contestants on the show. He has co-starred with Margaret Cho and NBC’s Last Comic Standing Finalist Michele Balan in MTV LOGO’s “Outlaugh Festival on Wisecrack”.