Jon Stewart News

This is one smokin' show that's B.Y.O.B. (bring your own blanket). 'The Daily Show & Friends' is this year's presentation of 'COMEDY CENTRAL Park' which will take place on Wednesday, July 21 at 8:00 p.m. The event will be hosted by Lewis Black and feature stand-up performances by 'Daily Show' correspondents Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver, series alum Rob Riggle, executive producer Rory Albanese and supervising producer Adam Lowitt.

The American Southwest Theatre Company at New Mexico State University Theatre Arts will close Nikolai Gogol's, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, May 2 at the Hershel Zohn Theatre on the NMSU campus. It is the final production of the 2009 - 2010 ASTC/NMSU Season.

Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced details for this year's special online Auction in connection with its annual Spring Gala Benefit.

Upcoming shows at Comix

As part of the 2010 Marymoor Concert Series, Seattle Theatre Group (STG Presents), Live Nation, and The Lakeside Group present the second annual No Depression Festival, sponsored by the pioneering and influential roots-music magazine and website. The festival will take place Saturday, August 21, 2010, at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington, just outside Seattle. The all-day event will feature The Swell Season, Lucinda Williams, The Cave Singers, Punch Brothers, Alejandro Escovedo, Chuck Prophet & Sera Cahoone.

Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway. This event will celebrate ERS's success with Frances McDormand (Burn after Reading, Fargo), Lili Taylor ('Six Feet Under'), Fred Armisen ('Saturday Night Live'), Frankie Faison ('The Wire'), and ERS company members in a one night only performance of loved, banned and mythologized American fiction. Authors include Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and Edgar Allan Poe. Readings will be accompanied by ERS's unique signature sound design.

This June, COMEDY CENTRAL's blasting into space and bringing viewers all-new episodes of 'Futurama,' as well as bringing back everybody's favorite online guru, 'Tosh.0.' COMEDY CENTRAL also has stand-up specials from Paul F. Tompkins, Lewis Black and Juston McKinney. New episodes of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' 'Sit Down, Shut Up,' 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' are also continuing through June.

Comedian Lewis Black will bring his latest show: In God We Rust (formerly titled The Parties Over) to City Center on April 22 through the 24, 2010.

Comedian Lewis Black will bring his latest show: In God We Rust (formerly titled The Parties Over) to City Center on April 22 through the 24, 2010.

COMEDY CENTRAL has reached individual agreements with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to extend the contracts of the hosts of the Emmy(R) and Peabody(R) Award-winning series 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report,' it was announced today by Michele Ganeless, president, COMEDY CENTRAL.

Acclaimed Off-Broadway theater company Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced details for this year's special online Auction in connection with its annual Spring Gala Benefit.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA is proud to announce two new classes.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA is proud to announce two new offerings from its Education Department. Organized by Senior Vice-President of Education, DANNY FINGEROTH, and hot on the heels of the MASTER CLASS SERIES IN COMICS WRITING, the department's next amazing classes will be:

The American Southwest Theatre Company at New Mexico State University Theatre Arts will present Nikolai Gogol's, THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, from April 16 - May 2 at the Hershel Zohn Theatre on the NMSU campus. It is the final production of the 2009 - 2010 ASTC/NMSU Season.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art - MoCCA is proud to announce two new classes.

Upcoming shows at Comix

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, the organization dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway, has announced that it will host CABARETION! [KA-ba-'RAY-sh-un !] , noun - The fusion of contribution, performance, and celebration of the Off-Off Broadway community at Carolines on Monday, May 17th from 6-9pm.

MSNBC darling Rachel Maddow keeps plenty of television viewers informed, and often entertained, on her nightly program -- just don't expect her to use TV as her own form of entertainment...

Elevator Repair Service (ERS) is hosting their spring benefit on Monday, May 3rd, 2010. The company is currently finishing the third play in a trilogy of critically acclaimed plays based on great American novels by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway.

Robin Williams might have been the guest on last night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart, but it was a gag involving Muppets that stole the show, especially for all of the political gurus watching Comedy Central's program...