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It's been 10 years since Dane Cook, then a young comedian rising in the ranks of the comedy world, released “Dane Cook: Harmful if Swallowed.”

This year The New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), presented in association with COMEDY CENTRAL, marks its 10th anniversary today, November 6 through Sunday, November 10. The festival will once again bring laughs to all the boroughs in New York City, and adding several new venues. The 2013 festival line-up will be announced in August, at which time tickets will also go on sale. Additional shows will be added in the fall.

Returning to Las Vegas for a record-smashing 54th consecutive year, internationally renowned comedian, actor and entertainer Don Rickles will return to The Orleans Showroom tonight and tomorrow, September 28 and 29.

Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) announced today the upcoming launch of its newest 24/7-comedy channel, Just For Laughs Radio.The channel will feature over 30 years of stand-up comedy drawn from the comedy archives of the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, including the work of established comedians, new faces, international superstars, and stand-up from comedians before they were stars.

HBO received 27 Primetime Emmy(R) Awards, the most of any network for the 12th year in a row, in the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy(R) Awards competition.

MODERN FAMILY's Gail Mancuso won the Emmy for OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A COMEDY SERIES. Also nominated in the category were Lena Dunham (GIRLS), Paris Barclay (GLEE), Louis C.K. (LOUIE), and Beth McCarthy-Miller (30 ROCK).

Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield won the 2013 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for their work on NBC's 30 ROCK.

The 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted by HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER's Neil Patrick Harris, is telecast live coast-to-coast tonight, September 22nd (8 PM ET/5 PM PT) on CBS from the NOKIA Theater L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles. BWW TVWorld will be bringing you live updates of the winners, in addition to photos, videos, and more throughout the night!

Today, September 20, the Forum Theatre will screen Woody Allen's BLUE JASMINE.

Challenge the BroadwayWorld.com Experts- Who do you think will win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series?

The Tony Awards telecast took home four Emmys including Outstanding Special Class Program, Outstanding Musical Direction and Outstanding Musics and Lyrics for 'If I Had Time' with lyrics by Adam Schlesinger and music by David Javerbaum.

This fall, COMEDY CENTRAL is looking for the best new stand-up talent in the country including the Bay Area by holding 'Up Next' A CC: Certified Talent Search through the network's Certified Clubs program. 'Up Next' A CC: Certified Talent Search will consist of comedians performing in preliminary local showcases hosted by Cobb's Comedy Club and 25 other participating Certified Clubs from September 3-23. The preliminary showcase for Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco will take place tonight, September 15, 7:30pm.

There are comics revered for their intellect like Louis CK and Dave Chapelle, and comics that never seem to drag themselves out of the gutter (too many to name). Doug Stanhope is both, and neither. Described as a 'visionary douchebag' by the Times of London, Stanhope is fueled by equal parts of anger, outrage and alcohol, railing against western civilization's slide into apathy and stupidity. “Stanhope is a genius parading around the slums of failed ideology… he's Charles Bukowski with dick jokes drunkenly fueled by Thomas Paine,” declared The San Antonio Current.

Emmy-winning television star Jackee joins the cast of off Broadway's NEWSical The Musical for one-week only ? tonight, August 23rd through Tuesday, August 27th.

In September, La Toya Jackson goes where no Jackson has ever gone before - the New York stage! For one week only beginning Tuesday, September 3rd, the singer/actress/business woman/reality star and former model will join the cast of off Broadway's smash comedy, NEWSical The Musical. NEWSical The Musical is the forever changing, completely un-sanitized musical mockery of all the news that's fit to spoof. From Honey Boo Boo to Paula Deen, Andrew Weiner to A-Rod, marriage equality to Kim and Kanye's baby North West, NEWSical The Musical sets all of today's biggest pop culture headlines to song. NEWSical The Musical plays daily (except Thursdays) at Theatre Row on 42nd Street.

This fall, COMEDY CENTRAL is looking for the best new stand-up talent in the country including the Bay Area by holding 'Up Next' A CC: Certified Talent Search through the network's Certified Clubs program. 'Up Next' A CC: Certified Talent Search will consist of comedians performing in preliminary local showcases hosted by Cobb's Comedy Club and 25 other participating Certified Clubs from September 3-23. The preliminary showcase for Cobb's Comedy Club in San Francisco will take place on Sunday, September 15, 7:30pm.

The hilarious Gary Gulman will take to the stage at Comix At Foxwoods for four performances from Thursday, Oct. 3 to Saturday, Oct. 5. Gulman will keep audiences laughing at 8 p.m. each night throughout the weekend, before ending things on a high note with a 10:30 p.m. performance on Oct. 5.

Returning to Las Vegas for a record-smashing 54th consecutive year, internationally renowned comedian, actor and entertainer Don Rickles will return to The Orleans Showroom September 28 and 29.

Marking its 10th anniversary November 6 - 10, the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), in association with COMEDY CENTRAL, today announced its 2013 line-up, featuring some of the comedy industry's biggest stars performing in New York City's most prestigious venues, including the Beacon Theatre, Carnegie Hall, the Theater at Madison Square Garden and Town Hall, to name a few.

Salon.com asks today, Is YouTube killing comedy? and talks to 34-year-old New York comedian J-L Cauvin, whose April video impersonation of Louis C.K. went quickly viral, with him imagining Louis C.K. taking on some classic jokes in his own style.