After years of attempts, here it is, Binghamton University: your moment of Zen.

The Student Association Programming Board has booked Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” to do 70 minutes of stand-up at the Events Center on March 27.

“For the past four years, VPP [vice president of programming] and concert chairs have been trying to get one of Jon Stewart and John Mayer,” said Student Association Vice President for Programming Aaron Butler, who teamed with SAPB Concerts Committee Chair Meghan Wdowski to land Stewart. “Thankfully, we got one of them.”

Stewart, 46, has hosted “The Daily Show,” a nighttime satirical news program, since 1999. In a 2007 poll by the Pew Research Center, Stewart was named the fourth-most admired journalist in the United States — even though his primary role is as a comedian. He ends every half-hour program with “a moment of Zen,” a quick ironic segment.

The New York Times has asked whether Stewart is “the most trusted man in America.”

“He has that universal appeal to college students, and even some older people,” Butler said. “It’s an act that I think will have great success here at Binghamton.”

Student tickets will cost $26 and will be tentatively available on Feb. 18 at the Events Center box office, or through the Events Center Web site. A student ID is required to receive student pricing, with a limit of one ticket per ID. Ticket prices for the general public have yet to be determined, but will likely be about $40.

The Events Center, which can hold a capacity of about 7,000 people, will be restricted to 5,500 for the show. Of that, 3,000 seats will be made available to students, and the rest to the general public.

The show will cost $160,000 in fees to Stewart, plus an additional $30,000 in staging and accommodations for the New York native. Butler and Wdowski project that his show could bring in over $170,000.

Negotiations with Stewart began in mid-January. He was most comfortable performing in front of 5,000, but agreed to perform in front of 5,500.

The SAPB had also put in a bid for Kanye West, for $285,000, but he did not respond.

“We weren’t going to wait around for a pipe dream,” Butler said.

Stewart shouldn’t be too unfamiliar with the University and local area.

A segment on his show in November 2006 mocked BU student Aaron Akaberi. Akaberi had gone on a religious-based 12-day hunger strike in protest of the policies of campus food-service provider Sodexo, then named Sodexho.

“I thought the hunger strike had the capability to be a powerful catalyst for change,” Akaberi said about the program. “Maybe it was just total bullshit. I don’t know.”

Stewart also performed at Cornell in March of 2005.