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Comedy Central to Give Eddie Murphy 'Comedy Icon' Award

March 21, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Inaugural Comedy Awards to feature Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Tracy Morgan, John Stewart, The Roots, others

  

MTV Promotes Tanya Giles to EVP of Strategic Insights and Research

March 21, 2011 By Tim Molloy 2 years ago

Giles was formerly SVP of research and planning

  

Comedy Central Plans All-Star Tribute to Greg Giraldo

March 11, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Special featuring remembrances from Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, Sarah Silverman and others to debut March 18

  

The Dirtiest Jokes From Donald Trump's Comedy Central Roast

March 10, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

The Donald is skewered at a taping that featured stand-up from Larry King, Snoop Dogg and a bad "Situation"

  

New Comedy Awards to Honor Johnny Carson

March 7, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Network's inaugural "Comedy Awards" to present award in legendary talk show host’s honor

  

Comedy Central Gets Seth MacFarlane to Host Trump Roast

February 16, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

'Family Guy' creator first to emcee back-to-back as show takes aim at The Donald in return to New York

  

'30 Rock' Tops Nominees for Comedy Central's New Comedy Awards

February 15, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

NBC sitcom gets seven nominations; "Easy A" gets four; "Conan" snubbed in late night category

  

Jon Stewart Mocks Fox News' Coverage of Egypt's Revolution (Video)

February 15, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

"Daily Show" host tees off on his favorite target for suggesting Hitler's coming to Cairo

  

Norm Macdonald Scores Sports Show on Comedy Central

February 9, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Comedy Central greenlights eight episodes for ex-"SNL" star

  

Oscars, Emmys ... Now, Comedy Central's Got 'The Comedy Awards'

January 10, 2011 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Billed as "the first-ever multi-network, multi-platform, annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy," it will air in April, simultaneously across MTV properties

  

Comedy Central Names Jonas Larsen VP of Specials

January 5, 2011 By Brent Lang 2 years ago

Veteran executive previously worked for Oxygen and VH1

  

Comedy Central Plans Donald Trump Roast

December 16, 2010 By Tim Molloy 2 years ago

"I’m confused as to how anybody could make fun of me,” says Trump.

  

Comedy Central Unveils New Logo

December 9, 2010 By Tim Molloy 2 years ago

Goodbye, wacky buildings

  

'South Park' Producers Sued Over Cover of Viral Smash (video)

November 15, 2010 By Tim Molloy 2 years ago

Is it even possible to parody "What What (in the Butt)"?

  

Did Twitter Army Help Conan Beat Leno, Letterman and Stewart?

November 9, 2010 By Brent Lang & Tim Molloy 2 years ago

Returning to late night, former "Tonight Show" host earns 4.2M viewers -- just over double his number of Twitter followers

  

Comedy Central Promotes Val Boreland to SVP

November 8, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Role for head of programming expanded

  

Conan's Real Late-Night Foe Isn't Jay or Dave -- It's Jon Stewart

November 7, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

With the launch of "Conan," "The Daily Show" faces something it has never before in its timeslot: competition

  

Late-Night Shakeup: Stewart Tops Networks; Dave Beating Jay

November 4, 2010 By Josh Dickey 2 years ago

"The Daily Show" becomes the first late-night talk show to beat both Letterman and Leno in average nightly viewers

  

Election Coverage Grades: B's for MSNBC & FOX, CBS C-

November 2, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

From CNN to Comedy Central, a review of television's midterm madness

  

Stewart Rally Averages 2M Viewers for Comedy Central

November 1, 2010 By Daniel Frankel 2 years ago

Network's coverage of "Rally to Restore Sanity" garners almost as many viewers as Glenn Beck's did last month across three cable news networks

  

17 Insanely Funny Signs From Jon Stewart’s ‘Sanity’ Rally

November 1, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

(That the Tea Party should fear)

  

Final 'Sanity' Tally: CBS Says 215,000 Attended Stewart and Colbert's Rally

November 1, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Comedy Central duo's gathering in Washington outdrew Glenn Beck event

  

Sanity/Fear Rally Neither Funny Nor Political, But Shows the Power of Jon Stewart

October 30, 2010 By Gail Shister 2 years ago

Analysis: The skits bombed, the music rocked. But you can exhale if you were worried that Stewart was about to become a political activist

  

Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert Take Washington (Slideshow)

October 30, 2010 By Wrap Staff 2 years ago

Take that, Glenn Beck -- here's what happens when Comedy Central, not Fox, overtake the National Mall ...

  

Jon Stewart (Politely) Grills Obama on 'Daily Show' (video)

October 28, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

Comedian accomplishes more in interview than president has during first 18 months in office

  

Shhh! Details of Stewart-Colbert Rally Leaked

October 27, 2010 By Dylan Stableford 2 years ago

On National Park Service's permit application: the Roots, Jeff Tweedy, Sheryl Crow -- but no Obama

  
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