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This August, COMEDY CENTRAL is setting fire to David Hasselhoff in 'The COMEDY CENTRAL Roast of David Hasselhoff,' chilling with loser friends in 'Big Lake' and wondering if Whitney Cummings really just said that in her new stand-up special. The only all-comedy network also has the movie premieres of 'Good Luck Chuck,' 'The Cable Guy' and 'Strange Wilderness.' New episodes of 'Tosh.0,' 'Futurama,' 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' 'Russell Simmons Presents Stand-Up at The El Rey,' 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' also continue throughout August.

Photos from a special screening of 'Cyberchase' at Tribeca Cinemas on June 19, 2010 in New York City.

Yesterday, June 14, BJ Novack hosted the 14th Annual 'Webby Awards' at Cipriani, Wall Street in New York City. The 'Webby Awards' is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. The Webbys were established in 1996 during the Web's infancy. The Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes a 750-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and associate members who are former 'Webby Award' winners and nominees and other internet professionals. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below.

Carolines on Broadway, America's Premier Comedy Nightclub, announces its all-star line-up of talent for the month of May 2010, highlighted by headliners CHARLIE MURPHY, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show' and the films 'King's Ransom' and 'Roll Bounce,' who will host 'Charlie Murphy's Crash Comedy,' May 6 - 9; JOHN WITHERSPOON, from 'The Wayans Bros.,' the 'Friday' films, 'Boomerang' and Cartoon Network's 'The Boondocks,' May 13 - 16; PAUL MOONEY, from Comedy Central's 'Chappelle's Show,' his Showtime specials 'Jesus Was Black' and 'Paul Mooney: It's the End of the World,' and Spike Lee's 'Bamboozled,' May 13 - 16 and May 27 - 30; GILBERT GOTTFRIED, from Sirius XM Radio's 'The Howard Stern Show,'

Joey Nova Presents brings you SEXTACULAR! SEXTACULAR!, a re-imagining of the cabaret shows from turn-of-the-century France, but with a modern New York City rock n roll edge. Charmingly egocentric host Joey Nova (Cutie Patooties, Precious) is joined by co-host Erika Smith (Dracula, Screen Sirens) as his absinthe-conjured sidekick, 'The Green Fairy', as they try to petition the government for a new holiday celebrating SEX! When prudish-but-provocative government liaison Prudence Rottoncrotch (played by Miss Pin Up Coney Island 2008, Kristen Lee from Cherry Pop!) is sent in to hear their proposal, Joey and The Green Fairy argue their case by seducing her with twenty titillating acts by some of the hottest performers in theatre, burlesque, and cabaret. Featuring dazzling light & fire shows, astounding aerial acts, dynamic acrobatics, tantalizing burlesque performances, glam rock cabaret, punk rock cancan girls and rocket-fueled glam rock band Starbolt 9 as the Sextacular! Sextacular! house band.

Joey Nova Presents brings you SEXTACULAR! SEXTACULAR!, a re-imagining of the cabaret shows from turn-of-the-century France, but with a modern New York City rock n roll edge. Charmingly egocentric host Joey Nova (Cutie Patooties, Precious) is joined by co-host Erika Smith (Dracula, Screen Sirens) as his absinthe-conjured sidekick, 'The Green Fairy', as they try to petition the government for a new holiday celebrating SEX! When prudish-but-provocative government liaison Prudence Rottoncrotch (played by Miss Pin Up Coney Island 2008, Kristen Lee from Cherry Pop!) is sent in to hear their proposal, Joey and The Green Fairy argue their case by seducing her with twenty titillating acts by some of the hottest performers in theatre, burlesque, and cabaret. Featuring dazzling light & fire shows, astounding aerial acts, dynamic acrobatics, tantalizing burlesque performances, glam rock cabaret, punk rock cancan girls and rocket-fueled glam rock band Starbolt 9 as the Sextacular! Sextacular! house band.

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) announced the winners of the 2009 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for screen, television, radio, news, promotional, and videogame writing at simultaneous ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the Hudson Theatre at the Millennium Broadway Hotel in New York City.

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.

Actor and comedian Bob Saget, who recently made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning musical Te Drowsy Chaperone, will visit Fox 5's 'Good Day New York' and NBC's 'The Today Show' studios on Tuesday, November 6.

Actor and comedian Bob Saget, who recently made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning musical The Drowsy Chaperone, hosts The New York Comedy Festival benefit production of 'Cool Comedy - Hot Cuisine: An Evening to Benefit The Scleroderma Research Foundation (SRF)' on Tuesday, November 6 at 6PM at Carolines on Broadway

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).

The Trevor Project's 'Harmony, Heart & Humor' summer gala event took place on June 25th with presentations of The Trevor Hero Award to Nathan Lane and The Trevor Commitment Award to Bravo

The Trevor Project's 'Harmony, Heart & Humor' summer gala event will take place on June 25th with presentations of The Trevor Hero Award to Nathan Lane and The Trevor Commitment Award to Bravo.

Members of The Creative Coalition including Marcia Gay-Harden, Gilbert Gottfried, and Arianna Huffington visited Lennon and then hosted a 'Imagine Free Speech' After-Theatre Party and we were there!