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This year's Critics' Choice Movie Awards will feature an array of presenters including Hank Azaria, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Rob Huebel, the Kardashians (Khloe, Kim & Kourtney), Jimmy Kimmel, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Joan Rivers, Tim Roth, Paul Scheer, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Spacey, Emma Stone and Sofia Vergara.

Talk Show Listings for Friday, January 14, 2011

Pioneer Theatre Company presents Black Comedy, January 14 through January 29, 2011.

This year's Critics' Choice Movie Awards will feature an array of presenters including Hank Azaria, Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Rob Huebel, the Kardashians (Khloe, Kim & Kourtney), Jimmy Kimmel, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Moore, Joan Rivers, Tim Roth, Paul Scheer, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Spacey, Emma Stone and Sofia Vergara.

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, continues its 2011 season with the debut of actor and writer, BRUCE VILANCH.

Roaster Jeffrey Ross quips, 'The Hoff once blew into a breathalyzer and the breathalyzer said, 'Whoa, whoa... one at a time, people!'

Talk Show Listings for Friday, January 14, 2011

Steven Brinberg makes his long awaited return to the Metropolitan Room on Saturday, January 8 (9:30pm) when he brings his latest SIMPLY BARBRA show to the posh cabaret for one night only.

Highlights Include Michael Bolton, Vic Damone, Michael Feinstein, Roberta Flack, Dudu Fisher, Whoopi Goldberg, Shirley MacLaine, Peking Acrobats, Don Rickles & Joan Rivers, Jake Shimabukuro, The Temptations & The Four Tops, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Forever Plaid, Tango Inferno, NETworks Presents Disney's Beauty & The Beast & The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein

SHOWTIME(R) will be available in a record 61 million households for a Free Preview Weekend from Friday, January 7 through Monday, January 10. Viewers across the country will have the opportunity to sample the premium network's award-winning programming on SHOWTIME, SHOWTIME HD(TM) and SHOWTIME On Demand(R). The Free Preview weekend will include the anticipated series premieres of two new SHOWTIME original series SHAMELESS and EPISODES, the fourth season premiere of CALIFORNICATION, the Showtime Sports mixed martial arts series STRIKEFORCE Challengers live from Nashville, and the premium television premiere of THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON.

The Firehouse Theatre Project is proud to present a two-week stand-up comedy workshop taught by comedian Eddie Sarfaty, beginning Monday, March 28, 2011.

The mission of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center is 'to create a lifetime of meaningful and relevant experiences through the performing arts.'

Pioneer Theatre Company presents Black Comedy, January 14 through January 29, 2011.

Les Michaels Life Is A Cabaret Concert Series moves to Sundays at 2 PM in 2011 when award-winning writer, singer, composer, pianist, Melissa Vardey debuts her latest one-woman show in which we find her inhabiting the wonderful world of being underwater- figuratively speaking. Her only lifeline: her wits, skills at the piano and a sense of optimism while performing a variety of songs on piano, ukulele and percussion instruments, drawing from her own originals and her love of jazz, blues, pop, Broadway and classical.

Clint Holmes is more than a singer. His powerful voice and magnetic stage presence embrace the upbeat side of life. His first break came when Joan Rivers invited him to be her sidekick and announcer on the now defunct The Late Show. This was followed by a two-year stint on Entertainment Tonight for which he served as their musical feature and event correspondent, and later landed his own Emmy winning talk/variety show entitled, New York at Night. Among his various recordings are the Top Ten smash hit Playground In My Mind (My Name is Michael). A Las Vegas favorite, Clint Holmes was selected as 'Best Kept Secret' by Las Vegas Life Magazine, and 'Best Singer' (two years in a row), 'Best All-Around Las Vegas Performer' and 'Favorite Male Las Vegan' by the Review-Herald.

If annoying holiday films, dreaded family gatherings and over-played Christmas songs don't get you in the holiday spirit, The Second City certainly will when they bring their Dysfunctional Holiday Revue performance and additional New Year's Eve show to Pheasant Run Resort, presented by Noble Fool Theatricals (soon to be Fox Valley Repertory in 2011).

The RRazz room at Hotel Nikko is San Francisco's premiere nightclub, offering the finest in world-class Cabaret, Jazz, Comedy and Popular music entertainment.

Clint Holmes is more than a singer. His powerful voice and magnetic stage presence embrace the upbeat side of life. His first break came when Joan Rivers invited him to be her sidekick and announcer on the now defunct The Late Show. This was followed by a two-year stint on Entertainment Tonight for which he served as their musical feature and event correspondent, and later landed his own Emmy winning talk/variety show entitled, New York at Night. Among his various recordings are the Top Ten smash hit Playground In My Mind (My Name is Michael). A Las Vegas favorite, Clint Holmes was selected as 'Best Kept Secret' by Las Vegas Life Magazine, and 'Best Singer' (two years in a row), 'Best All-Around Las Vegas Performer' and 'Favorite Male Las Vegan' by the Review-Herald.

Steven Brinberg makes his long awaited return to the Metropolitan Room on Saturday, January 8 (9:30pm) when he brings his latest SIMPLY BARBRA show to the posh cabaret for one night only.

The RRazz room at Hotel Nikko is San Francisco's premiere nightclub, offering the finest in world-class Cabaret, Jazz, Comedy and Popular music entertainment.