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Go Comedy! Improv Theater will welcome comedian Todd Barry for a one-night-only performance Sunday, August 22 at 7pm. Tickets ($12) for this special performance are available online at www.gocomedy.net, by calling 248-327-0575, or in person beginning Wednesday - Sunday at the Go Comedy! box office.

NBC's 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' has won the week of August 9-13 in adults 18-49 and total viewers over all cable and broadcast competition, delivering bigger audiences than CBS's 'Late Show with David Letterman' and ABC's combination of 'Nightline' and 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' in every key ratings category: adults, men and women 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54, as well as total viewers.

Producer Scott Sanders announced today that an additional four weeks of performances have been added to the limited Broadway engagement of the highly anticipated stage play, The Pee-wee Herman Show. Beginning previews October 26 and opening on November 11, the limited engagement was originally scheduled to run through December 5. The engagement will now add 32 performances and run through the Christmas and New Year's holidays, giving its final Broadway performance on January 2, 2011 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 West 43rd street).

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its Spring/Summer 2010 season with the debut of acclaimed jazz and blues vocalist, TAMM E. HUNT on Wednesday, August 25.

Go Comedy! Improv Theater will welcome comedian Todd Barry for a one-night-only performance Sunday, August 22 at 7pm. Tickets ($12) for this special performance are available online at www.gocomedy.net, by calling 248-327-0575, or in person beginning Wednesday - Sunday at the Go Comedy! box office.

The reviews are in and it is official, MacChin: The Lamentable Tragedie of Jay Leno is the sleeper hit of FringeNYC 2010! Come and see for yourself what the above critics are glowing about. 'MacChin is an epic staging of the demise of televised taste-making.

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WANTON DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION is a trio of short plays written by Zach Smilovitz, award-winning playwright and former freelance monologue writer for the Late Show with David Letterman.

The Hamburger Theatre Company is proud to announce casting for the world premiere of Zachary Stewart's MacChin: The Lamentable Tragedie of Jay Leno, a tastelessly irreverent adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth

The Brick Theater, Inc., announces the performance schedule and lineup for the upcoming 2010 New York Clown Theatre Festival, performing September 3-26 at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. This year's festival will feature diverse clown theatre artists from around the world and across the United States. Cabarets, special events, and clown workshops to be announced shortly.

Leslie Meisel (30 Rock) comes back to the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre(307 W. 26th Street, NY, NY 10001) with a brand new one-woman show, Love Can Suck a D*** . . . and So Can I!, August 13th and August 28th at 7:30 PM. Love Can Suck a D*** . . ., will be paired with So I Like Superman: A One-Nerd Show, admission is $10.

THE YORK SHAKESPEARE COMPANY is pleased to announce the New York Premiere of Randy Cohen's THE PUNISHING BLOW, directed by Seth Duerr, who together will be conducting Q&A sessions after every Saturday and Sunday matinee. THE PUNISHING BLOW will play a three-week limited engagement at the Kirk Theater (410 West 42nd Street address). Performances begin Friday, August 13 and continue thru Saturday, August 28. Opening Night is Friday, August 13 (8 p.m.).

During the week of August 2, 2010, ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' posted strong week-to-week growth in Total Viewers (+14% - 1.50 million vs. 1.32 million), Adults 18-49 (+16% - 590,000 vs. 507,000) and Adults 18-34 (+35% - 241,000 vs. 178,000). 'JKL' produced its biggest overall audience in 5 weeks and its top Adult 18-34 number in 7 weeks ? since w/o 6/28/10 and 6/14/10, respectively.

The Broadway Comedy Club in New York City is located in the heart of the Times Square. So come check out the New York Comedy Club scene! We are the best Comedy Club in New York City, featuring stand-up comics from Comedy Central's Premium Blend, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, NBC's Last Comic Standing, HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Sirius Radio, BET Comic View, ICaramba! Latino Laugh Festival, The Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Showtime at The Apollo, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We also feature open-mic and improv groups and clases. New York City is the stand-up comedy capital of the world and Broadway Comedy Club offers the best of New York stand-up comedy.

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures in association with Unique Features announced today that the new Broadway musical ELF will star Tony® Award winner Beth Leavel (Emily), Tony® Award nominee Mark Jacoby (Walter), Matthew Gumley (Michael), Valerie Wright (Deb), Michael McCormick (Mr. Greenway), Michael Mandell (Store Manager) and six-time Emmy® Award winner George Wendt (Santa). Full casting including the lead roles of Buddy and Jovie will be announced shortly.

Michael Hartney's one man show So I Like Superman: A One-Nerd Show, begins it's August run at the UCB Theatre NY(307 W. 26th Street, New York, NY 10001) on August 13th at 7:30 PM. The show will also be playing on August 27th at 7:30 PM. Both nights the show will be paired with Leslie Meisel's (30 Rock) Love Can Suck a D*** . . . And So Can I!