Tonight’s comedian has shared the stage with Dane Cook, Anthony Clark, Chris Tucker and Jerry Seinfeld.

Seen regularly on Comedy Central, MTV and the WB, Daniel Kinno will perform tonight at 9 in 7th Street Underground.

Gretchen Claypool, comedy coordinator for University Board and senior communication major, saw Kinno at a National Association for Campus Activities conference.

“I saw his act two years ago with a previous college and wanted to bring him in,” Claypool said.

While Claypool was booking comedians last spring, she talked to Auburn Moon Agency about different comedians to bring to Eastern. She saw that Kinno was an option and talked to his agent in order to book him.

In his act, Kinno joked that he was torn between rooting for the Ukraine in the World Cup, since his parents were from the Ukraine, and not caring about soccer because he was an American.

Kinno was born and raised in Russia. He moved to America at the age of fifteen with his family. Kinno majored in physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

At the age of 19, Kinno turned to comedy as a way to escape the studies of physics and has continued for four years. Kinno started playing at open mic nights and comedy clubs.

Influences in Kinno life to pursue comedy were one of his teachers in high school and seeing George Carlin live. Mitch Hedberg and Bill Cosby are some other comedians that have influenced his stand up routing.

Kinno’s performance is based on interaction and mixed with crude and observational humor. Some of his previous material included dating, college life, the world cup, Amsterdam, religion and laughter is medicine.

Kinno is currently co-starring in the show “Boys Behaving Badly.”