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ATLANTA, Nov. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Improv Comedy Club & Dinner Theatre is hosting Kids Comedy Korner. Kids Comedy Korner is a television show hosted by Denisha Gillespie. This show is an hour reality talent competition that entertains the audience and educates the contestants. Each week the contestants learn skills to create and perform comedy from comedians and acting coaches. Quincy Bonds, head instructor and on screen moderator of improv, coaches the contestants one...

BOSTON, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Boston's most beloved comedy group, Improv Asylum, is partnering in a new venture - Wicked Comedy, LLC - to unveil a new home for stand-up comedy. The partnership of Wicked Comedy, LLC consists of Chet Harding & Norm Laviolette of Improv Asylum and John Tobin of Nick's Comedy Stop. They are opening a new stand-up comedy venue called Laugh Boston in the spring of 2013. Laugh Boston will be located in the Westin Hotel adjacent to the Boston...

ATLANTA, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Improv standup comedy club and dinner theatre is coming to Atlanta. The Improv, perhaps best known for its A&E network show An Evening at the Improv, was founded by Budd Friedman in New York in 1963. It started expanding in 1975 when it opened its legendary second location on Melrose Avenue in Hollywood California. For almost a half century, The Improv Comedy clubs have remained the premiere stages for live comedy. Over the...

Laugh for Sight benefits degenerative eye disease research and all proceeds directly benefit including the Scheie Eye Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. New York, NY (PRWEB) September 16, 2011 Tickets Now on Sale for 6th Annual Laugh For Sight NYC Comedy Benefit to Support Vision Charities: gothamcomedyclub.com Legendary comedians Robert Klein, and Steven Wright will be joined by Jessica Kirson, Eddie Brill, Brian Fischler with his guide dog “Nash” and more to be...

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hendrick Construction won a contract to build The Comedy Zone - the newest venue in Charlotte's premier entertainment district. The Comedy Zone will be a 7,100-square-foot club at NC Music Factory in Fourth Ward featuring performances by the country's top stand-up comics. The space, which is beneath The Saloon at NC Music Factory, will feature an underground bowl with stadium seating for 400 guests and a stage that protrudes into the crowd....

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the box office success of JACKASS 3D and positive response from audiences during his debut standup engagements at Los Angeles' renowned comedy club The Laugh Factory and New York City's acclaimed Comedy Cellar, Steve-O (AKA: Stephen Glover) announces commencement of his first official standup comedy club tour. Dubbing it "Steve-O's Entirely Too Much Information Tour," this excursion is taking place in venues across the nation and Canada....

GLENDALE, Calif., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Butterfinger and America's Original Comedy Showcase, The IMPROV, have teamed up to launch a one-of-a-kind sweepstakes for all who have an insatiable appetite for comedy and an eye for adventure - the Butterfinger/IMPROV Comedy Tour Sweepstakes. The grand prize winner will receive a comedy tour vacation package for four to see one comedy show in four different U.S. cities over a nine-day period, consecutively. Cities include: Los Angeles,...

Comedy Co-Produced by Monumental Pictures and Comedy Club Productions Beats Holiday Releases and Worldwide Hits, Bringing in Over $10 Million Opening Weekend CULVER CITY, Calif. and MOSCOW, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- "The Very Best Movie 2," a Russian comedy from Monumental Pictures, a joint venture between Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and Patton Media Group, and Comedy Club Production, is off to a very big start. The movie grossed $10.2 million opening weekend in Russia, CIS, Ukraine,...

Winner to perform at New York's Gotham Comedy Club and audition for Comedy Central's TV show 'Live At Gotham' SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Studio One Media Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: SOMD) announced today that it has partnered with New York's famed Gotham Comedy Club for MyStudio's first comedy contest, "The MyStudio Gotham Comedy Challenge." The contest gives MyStudio users the opportunity to participate in a nationwide comedy talent search that could launch a...

By Chris Peregrine Fed up with the stresses and strains of modern life? Worried about the credit crunch and depressed about the summer rain? A "yes" to any of those and it sounds like you could do with a laugh or two. Step this way, then, to a comedy club near you. That seems to be the invitation being issued at more and more venues these days. Jokes, some as painful as watching Paula Radcliffe run a marathon, are all the rage on the stage. Those in the market for some in the Swansea...