Artie Lang News

When it comes to acting, beyond the confines of sketch comedy, only one woman has displayed serious dramatic talent, of late. Out of the most recent SNL ensemble, Maya Rudolph, now starring in the film Away We Go, surpasses her late-night cohorts, including Fey and Amy Poehler, with an inspired and often touching performance...

COMEDY CENTRAL and The New York Comedy Festival announced today that they have signed a multi-year partnership.

COMEDY CENTRAL and The New York Comedy Festival announced today that they have signed a multi-year partnership.

COMEDY CENTRAL and The New York Comedy Festival announced today that they have signed a multi-year partnership. This new deal provides the Festival for the first-time, a national television partner to showcase its prestigious comedy line-up. The Festival, celebrating its Fifth Anniversary, will feature some of today's biggest names in comedy for its 2008 roster including Frank Caliendo, Louis C.K., Craig Ferguson, Carlos Mencia, Joel McHale, B.J. Novak, Tracy Morgan, Brian Regan, Sarah Silverman, and Katt Williams.

Carolines on Broadway, 'America's Premier Comedy Nightclub,' announces its all-star line-up of comedy talent for the month of July 2008, highlighted by headliners PAUL MOONEY, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show' and Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled,' July 3 - 6 and July 24 - 27; CAPONE, 'The Gangster of Comedy,' from BET's 'ComicView,' 'Showtime at the Apollo' and the film 'Death of a Dynasty,' July 4 - 6; GILBERT GOTTFRIED, from Sirius Satellite Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,' NBC's 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' and the film 'The Aristocrats,' July 10; JOEL McHALE, host of E! Entertainment Television's 'The Soup with Joel McHale,' July 11 - 13; ARTIE LANGE, from Sirius Satellite Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,' HBO's 'Entourage,' FX's 'Rescue Me' and the films 'Elf' and 'Artie Lange's Beer League,' July 17 and 18; SINBAD, one of Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time, from NBC's 'A Different World,' and the films 'First Kid' and 'Jingle All the Way,' July 18 - 20; and BOBBY LEE, from FOX's 'Mad TV,' HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm,' and the films 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,' and 'Kickin' It Old School,' July 24 - 27.

Dozens of stars from the stage and screen joined roast-master Lisa Lampanelli in kicking-off this year's Friars Club Roast of Pat Cooper on Friday October 19 at the New York Hilton, (1335 Avenue of the Americas).