AUBURN — Buffalo native and Richmond resident Mitch Stinson is a former aircraft-carrier aviator for the U.S. Navy who, as a pilot, made more than 200 carrier landings during his 10-year military career.

He rose up the comedy ranks throughout the Northeast with original material offering insight into his transition from hot-shot Navy pilot to civilian.

On Saturday, Dec. 31, he will headline the New Year’s Eve comedy show and party at the Fireside Inn & Suites. Also performing will be Johnny Ater and Rick Cormier.

Showtime is 9 p.m. Dancing with a disc jockey will follow the comedy acts.

Stinson is host of his own weekly show at the Dick Doherty Comedy Vault in Boston. He has headlined at clubs up and down the East Coast, and has been an invited performer at the Boston and Rhode Island Comedy festivals. He has won Rhode Island’s “Funniest Standup” contest and was a semifinalist in the Boston Sierre Mist Comedy Competition.

Ater has been performing in the midcoast and Portland areas for about eight years. His comedy focuses on his being a Mainer, raising teenagers and working as a painting contractor.

Cormier previously sang with bands and now combines jokes with song parodies in his stand-up acts, imitating the voices of Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, M.C. Hammer and others.

Tickets are $20 at the door. Dinner-entertainment packages and dinner-entertainment-overnight packages also available. Doors open at 7 p.m. The Fireside Inn is at 1777 Washington St., just off the Maine Turnpike at Exit 75. For reservations, call 777-1777.