Jim Breuer

Star comedian Pete Correale is coming home to Fredonia for a show tonight and bringing a well-known pal: former “Saturday Night Live” comic Jim Breuer.

“I’m good friends with Jim Breuer, and he’s opening a show with Metallica in Buffalo Saturday night,” Correale said Thursday. He invited Breuer to come visit him in Fredonia the night before the Buffalo show — with the thought that they would not be performing.

However, “I thought about it and called him back the next day and said, ‘There’s an opera house in town. Wanna do a show?'”

Breuer agreed, Correale reached out to the Fredonia Opera House and they made it happen. It’s set for 7:30 p.m. and is sold out.

“It is an intimate venue. It seats 444,” Correale said, adding that as a Fredonian he is proud to support the historic theater.

“I know some people literally flying in with their private jets to Dunkirk to see it, from Pittsburgh,” Correale said. There will also be officials from the National Comedy Center in Jamestown watching.

Correale, a Long Island native who graduated from SUNY Fredonia and developed ties to the area while there, is co-headliner with Breuer and will be performing first. “I’m going to go first because it’s my hometown and I know everybody,” he said.

He used to fly back and forth between Fredonia and a New York City apartment when he was working as a writer on the Kevin James sitcom “Heaven Can Wait,” but calls Fredonia his home full-time — when he’s not on the road, that is, which is often.

In fact, next weekend Correale will be performing with Breuer in a venue that seats a lot more than the Fredonia Opera House …. namely, Boston Garden.

First, though, he’s looking forward to an evening at home.

‘It should be a lot of fun,” he said.