Either Dave Chappelle or Jim Breuer will be cracking jokes on April 11 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall – and Northwestern students will choose which comedian performs.

Chad Bell, A&O Productions’ director for speakers and special events, said the group has a contract with Dick Doherty Comedy, which represents both comedians. The contract says one comedian will perform, but the choice of which one was left to A&O. Bell said the group wanted student input on the decision, so students can vote on the A&O Web site – www.aoproductions.nwu.edu.

Bell, a Weinberg senior, said it was possible that both comedians will perform.

Tickets for the event will go on sale Thursday in the Norris University Center box office and will cost $5 for any student with a WildCARD, Bell said.

The A&O Web site allows students to vote multiple times, which allows “hardcore fans” to swing the vote in the direction of their preferred comedian, Bell said.

“We want to encourage people to vote early and vote often,” he said. “We want to make sure people get on the Web site and pick whichever comedian makes them laugh the most.”

Chappelle starred in, co-wrote and co-produced the pot-smoking comedy “Half Baked,” about a janitor who begins selling marijuana to raise bail for his friend. He also has appeared in other comedies, such as “You’ve Got Mail,” “Robin Hood: Men in Tights” and Eddie Murphy’s 1996 remake of “The Nutty Professor.”

Breuer also co-starred in “Half Baked,” but he has made more of a mark in television, as the writer and star of the short-lived “The Jim Breuer Show” and as a featured player on “Saturday Night Live” from 1995-1998, where he portrayed Joe Pesci in “The Joe Pesci Show” skits.