Good-natured comedy hits the right notes

Judd Apatow can do no wrong, apparently. Even in taking on a genre parody, the comic mastermind behind Knocked Up and Superbad manages to find fresh laughs again and again. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , a take-off on the music biopic, hits all the familiar conventions we’ve seen in overly earnest movies like [...]

Kick Off the New Year With Lots of Laughs! January is Stand-Up Month on Comedy Central(R)

Stand-Up Specials From Chris Rock, Katt Williams, Lewis Black And Dane Cook Premiere Every Sunday Night Beginning January 6New Episodes Of COMEDY CENTRAL Presents Premiere Every Friday Night At 10:00 P.M. And 10:30 P.M. Beginning January 11All Month Long Viewers Can Go Online And Vote For Their Favorite Stand-Up Comedian With The Winner To [...]

COMEDY CENTRAL(R) Lets the Katt Out of the Bag; The World Television Premiere of Katt Williams

The encore presentation airs Sunday, January 13 at midnight. It might be hard out there for a pimp, but this guy makes it look easy! Joined by stand-ups Luenell, Red Grant and Melanie Comarcho, Williams takes his unique brand of stand-up comedy on the road as only a true hustler can. Once he reaches [...]

Comedy Central gets the new year rolling with laughter

: Get the New Year started off right, laughing all the way to the couch! The 12th season of “COMEDY CENTRAL Presents” premieres on Friday, January 11 featuring brand new comedy from today’s hottest, most esteemed comedians. The season kicks off with “COMEDY CENTRAL Presents Stephen Lynch” at 10:00 p.m., followed by “COMEDY CENTRAL Presents [...]

Rock Out With Comedy Central(R) The Network Television Premiere of Chris Rock

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Celebrate the Holiday Season with a Gift Basket of Laughs from COMEDY CENTRAL(R)

This New Year’s Eve, ease any guilt about breaking New Year’s resolutions before even making them by watching everyone’s favorite foul-mouth fourth-graders cause mayhem in “South Park Goes Out With Bang,” Monday, December 31 from 9:30 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. First at 9:30 p.m., Cartman is shipped off to a camp for overweight youngsters. [...]

Good for the Jews tour mixes music, comedy

“It really began about nine years ago as an act of resentment against the dominance of Christmas in December. I got to the point where I was fed up walking into a mall and hearing ‘Winter Wonderland’ in August. Jews have a holiday in December as well, and because we’re only 3 percent of [...]

Thespians play presidential assassins in comedy

The student-run theater group will present four performances of Assassins at 8 tonight and Friday and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday in Schwab Auditorium.

Boston based Jewish comedy team performs along with UMass student improv group

Media Credit: Courtesy myspace.com/lightnightplayers “The Late Night Players” comedy style is similar to the television show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” but with more political references and specialized jokes for the current venue. On Tuesday night the Earthfoods caf in the Student Union played host to a very funny group of young Hebrews called [...]

YAAAAAAAAAY! COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment Releases ‘The Best of Crank Yankers

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The laughter. The tears. The vomit. Now over 50 of your favorite calls from COMEDY CENTRAL’s “Crank Yankers” are available in this glorious DVD collection. Look back on all your favorite moments, from Hadassah’s obnoxiously uncomfortable questions about poop to Spoonie Luv’s liberal use of the word “badonkadonk,” [...]