Tonight: “You said… WHAAAAT?”

Boston’s New Center for Arts and Culture presents a special performance tonight of provocative comedy, one meant to irreverently spotlight Boston’s ethnic diversity.

Hosted by Emmy-award-winning documentary filmmaker Teja Arboleda, who’s the Creative Director of Entertaining Diversity, and whose latest film s Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians, the performances aim, in Arboleda’s words, to “use humor to dismantle the stereotypes, prejudices and preconceptions [comedians] have faced in their own lives to give audiences a new perspective on the complexities that go into identity."

Billed as an evening of "Comedy from America's Many Faces," the envelope-pushing performances will come from stand-ups Deb Farrar-Parkman (co-founder of ColorStruck: Women of Color in Comedy); “all-American immigrant” Joe Wong (recently profiled by the Phoenix’s Sara Faith Alterman); Tissa Hami (one of the world's only female Muslim comedians); Ilene Fischer (the self-styled “only single Jewish Lesbian over 40” in greater Boston), and bi-racial stand-up Tim Babb. It all kicks off at 7:30 p.m. at the 33 Restaurant and Lounge, 33 Stanhope Street in Boston.