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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.

Check out Philadelphia City Councilman James Kenney's Resolution No. 140493, which was passed unanimously by the Philadelphia City Council on May 22, 2014 firing back at the late night TV host

Comedy Central is bringing you a whole new batch of the freshest stars in stand-up comedy with the third season of 'The Half Hour!'

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. The network has released a first look at the tribute, featuring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler roasting the Rickles. Check it out below!

The Catastrophic Theatre presents Middletown by Will Eno, running tonight, May 23 - June 14, 2014, Thursday - Saturday at 8pm. All tickets Pay-What-You-Can.

Aziz Ansari, Robert Klein, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jon Stewart and George Wallace join the ride for Season Four

This year the Showboat Circus is once again coming to Tribeca with old-time family entertainment aboard a century-old covered wooden barge. DeadPan Alley, starring Will Shaw, is a one-hour, one-man performance of physical comedy, verbal wit and expert skill. Audiences of all ages will be thrilled with astounding and hilarious displays of juggling and balance, fancy cowboy roping, flying boomerangs, rare and amazing spinning top manipulations, hat tricks, sight gags, audience participation and clowning steeped in the traditions of the great comedians from the silent film era to the present. DeadPan Alley also features serious (and not-so serious) musical presentations with the piano and harmonica. Will Shaw has performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Sesame Street and was an instructor for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Clown College.

Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking two week run in 2013, returns to Minneapolis for a limited engagement August 20-September 7, 2014 at Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre.

The live show MythBusters: Behind the Myths, starring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, co-hosts of the Emmy-nominated Discovery series 'MythBusters,' returns to the The Bushnell's Mortensen Hall for one night only on Wednesday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale now. The show promises to be an outrageous evening of entertainment featuring brand new onstage experiments, behind-the-scenes stories and some of your all-time favorites. A new immersive video experience will keep you bolted to your seat.

On this week's edition of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Oliver discussed Nintendo's recent apology for not including gay marriage in their upcoming 3DS game Tomodachi Life.