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Summer's here and the snowbirds have migrated back up north. That means it's time again for the annual funny fest known as the Sarasota Improv Festival. The non-stop laughter returns on July 11 and 12 for two days and nights of unpredictable and hysterical comedy, with 17 of the hottest groups on the national improv scene.

Season two of Disney's popular animated comedy series 'Gravity Falls,' starring Jason Ritter ('Parenthood') and Kristen Schaal ('The Daily Show with Jon Stewart') as Dipper and Mabel Pines, twins who spend the summer with their eccentric Great Uncle Stan (aka Grunkle Stan), debuts FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 (9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel and MONDAY, AUGUST 4 (9:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney XD. Thereafter new episodes will debut on Disney XD with subsequent airings on Disney Channel.

Stephen Hawking was one of the show's guest and spoke on such topics as a parallell universe, artificial inttelingence and actresss Charlize Theron.

Check below for a list of events at The Smith Center for July and August 2014.

Presenting a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events, LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER continues with a new edition SUNDAY, JUNE 15

'No Name... & A Bag O' Chips' comedy / variety show producer, Eric Vetter recently announced two June 2014 shows at Otto's in Manhattan with the first - today, June 13th - to feature comedians Liz Miele (Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"), club and college favorite Ray Marshall, sketch comedy collective Kokomo and a few suprises.

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the popular award-winning Web series created by and starring Jerry Seinfeld, will return to Crackle and ComediansInCarsGettingCoffee.com on June 19.

'No Name... & A Bag O' Chips' comedy / variety show producer, Eric Vetter recently announced two June 2014 shows at Otto's in Manhattan with the first - on Friday, June 13th - to feature comedians Liz Miele (Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart"), club and college favorite Ray Marshall, sketch comedy collective Kokomo and a few suprises.

HBO presented a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events on last night's Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.

SummerWorks Performance Festival returns for its 24th year August 7 -17, 2014. This year's season is sure to thrill with exciting changes, a crop of new works and moments of intensity, self-discovery and much more waiting to be discovered. SummerWorks is excited to announce its new Hub at The Theatre Centre (1115 Queen St W), where they will host Live Art programming throughout the 2014 Festival, replacing last year's Performance Bar. SummerWorks is also pleased to return to venues such as Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson Ave), the Lower Ossington Theatre (100 Ossington Ave) and the Scotiabank Studio Theatre (6 Noble St).

OYE! Avant Garde Night is an annual festival devoted to the development of new performances by artists from Bushwick and surrounding areas. Brooklyn Gypsies created OYE! as a platform to celebrate and share what is unique about Bushwick's converging arts communities. Join us for a night of eclectic theater, dance & film, including a melodrama puppet opera of two electrons in the throes of Nitrogen Fixation and a man wandering the silk road. Performances followed by music, conversation, food and dancing.

Actor, comedian, and writer Lauren Weedman is heading to town to create a one-woman improvised theater show Well I Think You're Beautiful Philadelphia… based on her experiences in the city. Praised for her "unflinchingly honest comic observation" (Seattle Weekly), Weedman is a series regular on HBO's hit new show Looking, which chronicles the struggles, loves, and lives of three gay men in San Francisco. She has garnered a cult reputation for her quick wit and spitfire jokes through her acting and comedic roles, and this new work marks her Philadelphia debut.

Get ready for the wicked awesome third season premiere of Comedy Central's stand-up series “The Half Hour” tonight, June 6 at Midnight ET/PT and 12:30 a.m. ET/PT!

Michael Che will make his first appearance tonight at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT reporting on current election news as the newest correspondent on Comedy Central's Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.”

On last night's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, host Jon Stewart followed up the report by explaining how the media covered the recent tragic murders on the campus of UC Santa Barbara.

The biggest superstars in comedy will come together on Spike TV to celebrate the legendary career of one of their most beloved icons - Don Rickles.

OYE! Avant Garde Night is an annual festival devoted to the development of new performances by artists from Bushwick and surrounding areas. Brooklyn Gypsies created OYE! as a platform to celebrate and share what is unique about Bushwick's converging arts communities. Join us for a night of eclectic theater, dance & film, including a melodrama puppet opera of two electrons in the throes of Nitrogen Fixation and a man wandering the silk road. Performances followed by music, conversation, food and dancing.

AMC's Breaking Bad, HBO's Game of Thrones and True Detective, CBS's The Good Wife, and Netflix's Orange is the New Black will vie for Program of the Year at this year's TV Critics Association Awards.

Featuring Jerry Seinfeld, the 'Late Show' host will lead a discussion on the new season of the comics online series "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee."

AGAINST THE WALL was started as a workshop back in 1986, based on playwright Charlie Mount's experiences performing in the basements and on the stages of New York's comedy clubs as a stand-up and magician, working alongside other newcomers like Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, and Ray Romano. Presented as part of a series called Writers In Rep, in which playwrights from Theatre West's Writers' Unit have developed plays for full production, the current engagement marks its World Premiere as a completed, fully-produced work at Theatre West.. It's both romantic and very funny.