Comedian Gina Brillon from Bronx, N.Y., started her comedy show in Forum Hall by pointing out her New York roots.

"Hey there Little Apple ... that's cute," Brillon said as she started her stand up act Tuesday night. "I'm Gina. I'm from the big one."

Brillon's show talked of beating annoying and loud babies, crazy Latinos, psycho girlfriends, freak shows in New York, advice on how to get your girlfriend to have a threesome, homeless people, religion, fat girls, skinny girls, clueless guys, an interior look at the psyche of a female's mind, how to make your girlfriend mad, how to make her even more mad, jungle fever, obnoxious weddings and gay brothers in the family, to name a few.

Brillon is the type of comedian who has the ability to laugh at herself and laugh at the situations that life puts her in.

"A lot of her jokes came from her life in New York," said Hailey Petersen, senior in microbiology, "and living down here in Kansas, it's a different perspective. She made it really funny."

Brillon is one of the newest faces on the comedy circuit, recently seeing TV success through spots with MTV Tres and Comedy Central. Though relatively new to the mainstream media, she packs the punch and laughs of a seasoned comedian.

"I have never heard of her before," said Richie Weerts, senior in elementary education. "That made it all the more surprising. She was so funny."

Brillon has been performing for a long time. She said she was 17 when she first started performing. In a "crazy" move, her mother entered her and her twin sister into a stand-up contest in the Bronx. She also said she was rather surprised when they called back after she took third place.

"The first time was nothing," Brillon said. "It was like, ah, piece of cake, but the second time I got up, I freaked out and scared out of my mind. I went up there and totally bombed and, like a girl, I went and cried and then cried some more. But see, I got over that and the stage became like an addiction. Something I needed more and more ... every night I wanted to get up there and try again and again to win the audience over and to get better and better. That is the great thing about it; no matter how good I do any given night or how many laughs I might get from the audience, I always want to get up and do it again and do a better job."

Brillon said when she first started out as a comedian, she had just started attending college at Marymount Manhattan College and aside from being a full-time student and working nights at comedy clubs, she was balancing two jobs.

"I remember I would start the night off by handing out fliers," Brillon said. "Barking is what they call it. You get all these fliers and you put your initials on the back of them and if you get people that come into the club with your fliers, you'll get some time on the stage or you might've gotten five bucks. You got five minutes on stage if you brought three friends. You might get 20 minutes on the stage if you brought 10. It was hectic and after I got off stage: I would go to the back and pull out books and start doing my homework!"

During her tenure at Marymount Manhattan College, Brillon was majoring in both English and psychology and was contemplating a career in couple's sex therapy.

"I guess no matter what career I chose to go down," she said. "I wanted to choose something a little different and fun. I'll tell you, I got a radio show doing couple's therapy and you wouldn't believe the call-ins I got. I mean, I would just give them advice and off they would go. Felt like I was really helping them, but on the same note, I was starting to hope comedy would work out for me."

Brillon is fresh off a tour from London and has been going around colleges all over the United States.

She said she loved the crowd and looks forward to coming back.