Best known for his spot on MTV’s hit Wild ’N Out with Nick Cannon, actor/comedian/recording artist Katt Williams has done much more than television in his burgeoning career. He’s been owning comedy clubs around LA for the past decade and been acting in feature films for the past five years (you may remember him as “Money Mike” from 2001’s Friday After Next). And his star has never shone more brightly than now: In November he will become the first-time host of BET’s new Hip Hop Awards Show, he’s planning the release of a new rap/comedy album for Universal Records and he’ll appear with Eddie Murphy in the upcoming film Norbit, a love comedy about a man who schemes to be with the woman of his dreams. Raised in Dayton, Ohio, Williams was reportedly a precocious child who was reading by the age of three and who started performing stand-up after he snuck into a bar one night while still underage, finagled his way onstage and soon had the whole room laughing. Telling jokes is something that just seems to come naturally to the multi-talented Williams, an improv pro with a quick, hilarious wit.

Saturday, October 21 at 8pm. Shea’s Performing Arts Center, 646 Main Street (847-1410). $30/$36.