Since its reopening in 2014, the Turnage Theater and the Beaufort County Arts Council have put many acts onstage, but this weekend, staff is reaching out to a broader audience — through humor.

The arts council will present its first stand-up comedy act at the Turnage Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m. Working with producer Matthew White of Seriously Clowning Stand-Up Comedy, this will be BCAC’s first foray into this type of programming, according to BCAC Executive Director Joey Toler.

“It’s part of throwing anything against the wall and seeing what sticks at this point,” Toler said. “I’ve had hundreds of people tell me what we should be doing at the Turnage Theater and one of the things that has come up more than once is ‘We’d like to see stand-up comedy.’”

In the past six months, the Turnage stage has been the site of many different events and performances: a spoken word performance, an Elvis impersonator, a gospel concert, a nature documentary premiere, a wildlife festival fowl-calling contest, a performance by the U.S. Air Force jazz ensemble, a Tar River Swing Band concert and a music festival, to name just a few. The facility has also been rented out for events like East Carolina Star Search, an Eagle’s Wings fundraiser, the Inner Banks Music Academy’s recital and many private events.

Toler is considering Saturday night’s comedy show an experiment. If the show is successful, he said BCAC will likely do something similar in the future.

“If it’s not, we won’t,” he said.

Saturday’s show will present three different comics — all professionals; each with a different brand of comedy.

Headliner Jarrod Harris’ work has been described as “An oddly comfortable mix of trailer-park filth, comic angst and hipster irony. His style may fit into several categories along the comedy spectrum, his clever writing only fits into one: funny.”

Harris was named LA Weekly’s “Top Comic to Watch in 2012” and can be seen on Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham.”

The evening’s host comedian is Matthew White, a North Carolina native and creative/artistic director of Seriously Clowning Comedy Group, which he founded in 2005 at East Carolina University.

A third comedian on the program has yet to be named, Toler said.

“There is a featured guest comic as well, but we don’t know who it is,” he laughed.

Regardless, the show is an attempt to reach out to a younger audience and promises to be a bit more racy than the Turnage’s previous fare: Because of language and adult subject matter, the show is recommended for mature audiences only, Toler said.

Admission to the comedy show is $10 general admission. Tickets can be purchased at the BCAC box office at the Turnage Theatre at 150 W. Main St. in Washington, or by calling 252-946-2504. For more information about this and other upcoming programs, visit www.beaufotcountyartscouncil.org on the web.