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| Sarah Silverman and Jon Dore Kick Off Th e Comedy Network's Outrageous 10th Anniversary Season This Fall |
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on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 - 06:34 PM |
The Comedy Network announced today the debut of 4 new series and the return of several, popular multi-award winning programs for the 2007/2008 Season.
Leading the charge is The Comedy Network's new original comedy series The Jon Dore Show, starring award-winning comedian Jon Dore. In each outrageous episode, Dore fearlessly throws himself in the line-of-fire, exploring unique, sometimes unsettling "issues", with hilarious consequences. In addition, The Comedy Network presents 3 new imports: American Body Shop, Live at Gotham and Man Stroke Woman.
The network's solid line-up of Canadian programming continues in 2007/2008 with new seasons from its award-winning, original productions: Corner Gas (our No. 1 Canadian series and Canada's too!), Comedy Inc., Comedy Now!, Celebrity Death Match, and the 3rd Annual Yuk Yuks Great Canadian Laugh Off.
The Comedy Network's solid line-up of returning acquisitions continues with new episodes from The Sarah Silverman Program, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart (our highest-rated series), The Colbert Report (our favourite "right-wing pundit" host), South Park Uncensored (F%#k-ing A!), The Simpsons, Mind of Mencia, Surburban Shootout, The Simple Life, Drawn Together, and King of The Hill.
The Comedy Network's 2007/2008 Season includes:
New Original Series
The Jon Dore Show
* The Jon Dore Show stars award-winning comedian Jon Dore whose flat out crazy take on life is told through an array of real-life interviews, off-the-wall tangents and wild antics. Topics include: performing as a male stripper to help cure the blahs; getting help from a Hypnotist to squash a smoking addiction; and enlisting the services of an army drill sergeant to whip himself into shape. The 13-part, half-hour series is The Comedy Network's newest original production.
New Acquisitions:
American Body Shop
* Get tuned-up at American Body Shop, as these grease monkeys shed a whole new light on the way people look at their local auto body repair shops and the accompanying, often eccentric, characters who work there. This new, 10-episode, improvised narrative comedy series from Comedy Central revolves around the life of Sam (Peter Hulne), the twice-divorced body shop owner, who tries his best to keep his shop running smoothly, but has his hands full with his motley crew of car mechanics and put-upon receptionist.
Live at Gotham
* It's a smorgasbord of new comedy served fresh each episode in Live at Gotham, a stand-up comedy series featuring some of the hottest comedians performing at the Gotham Comedy Club in New York City. Each week, a new host introduces six up-and-coming comedians for an hour of original comedy in Season 2 of this side-splittingly funny series from Comedy Central. Live at Gotham makes its Canadian premiere this fall on The Comedy Network. Hosts include Lewis Black, Andy Kindler and Jim Breuer.
Man Stroke Woman
* A sketch show about relationships, friendship, work and every day life, British comedy Man Stroke Woman imports laughs from overseas to The Comedy Network in six, side-splittingly funny half-hour episodes. Produced by Ash Atalla (The Office, UK Edition), Man Stroke Woman features a bevy of recurring characters, including: the Bad Beauty Shop salesgirls, who uses juvenile taunts to insult customers; Crying Guy, whose intense sobbing makes him completely incomprehensible; and Dangerous Dad, a well-meaning father who keeps putting his baby in lethal situations.
Returning Original Series:
* The Comedy Network's highest-rated Canadian comedy series revs up this fall as Corner Gas returns with 19 episodes of high-octane laughs straight from Dog River, Saskatchewan. This multi-award winning series was recently nominated for seven Leo Awards, including "Best Music, Comedy or Variety Program, or Series."
* Having recently won the prestigious Gold Medal Award for "Best TV Variety Program" at the New York Festivals for a third year in a row, sketch series Comedy Inc. returns for a fifth season of edgy sketch, social/political satire and uninhibited physical comedy.
* The 11th season of this multi-award-winning, star-making, stand-up series, Comedy Now! promises to deliver another year of uncensored, all-Canadian laughs.
* Reserve your ringside seats for the ultimate in satire as today's hottest stars trade punches in the animated series, Celebrity Deathmatch, returning this fall to The Comedy Network. This season's celebrity matches include: Johnny Depp vs Orlando Bloom, Hilary Duff vs Lindsay Lohan and Barry Bonds vs Bud Selig. Celebrity Deathmatch is a Comedy Network/MTV co-production.
Returning Acquired Series:
· Step into the incredible world of Sarah Silverman in Season 2 of The Sarah Silverman Program. The series stars comedian Silverman (2007 MTV Movie Awards host) whose absurd daily life is told through a comical array of scripted scenes and songs, savage cultural observations and smart-bomb one liners.
· The Comedy Network's highest-rated series, The Daily Show returns with more barbs and reality checks. Jon Stewart and his team of correspondents (including Canadian duo Samantha Bee and Jason Jones) dish on the day's stories employing actual news footage, taped field pieces, in-studio guests and on-the-spot coverage of important news events.
· Giving it hard, straight and nightly, The Colbert Report returns as the companion series to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Former Daily Show correspondent Stephen Colbert brings his sarcastic "right-wing pundit" charm to this half-hour, daily report, providing his off-the-wall take on the issues of the day.
· The Comedy Network's favourite foul-mouthed fourth-graders are back when South Park returns with its 11th season of no-holds barred hilarity. For the first time and only in Canada, South Park will air uncensored, with no more "bleeps" masking the dialogue of the foul-mouthed four graders.
· One of The Comedy Network's Top 5 Programs, The Simpsons returns with more sharp-witted storylines and skewed perspectives on modern life. Each episode is jam-packed with special guest appearances by a long list of celebrities including, Mandy Moore, Ricky Gervais, Frances McDormand, Alec Baldwin, Terry Bradshaw and Lily Tomlin, to name a few.
· Speaking his mind one episode at a time, cultural spitfire Carlos Mencia (the man without a mute button) is back for a third season in his no-holds-barred series Mind of Mencia. This half-hour series from Comedy Central is based on Mencia's unique point of view on the world including topics such as ethnic stereotypes, race relations, immigration, war, patriotism, capitalism and family.
· Love thy neighbour no more! The warring wives of Little Stempington are locked and loaded for a hilarious second season of the hit Brit comedy series Suburban Shootout. Sex, lies and semi-automatic weapons still rule the day in six all-new half-hour episodes of this U.K. import and Rose D'Or nominated series. Featuring rival all-female gangs led by femme fatale Camilla Diamond (Anna Chancellor) and vigilante crime-fighter Barbara du Prez (Felicity Montagu).
· Society girls Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie get down and dirty when they trade in their lavish lifestyles for life in a log cabin in season four of the cult hit reality series, The Simple Life Goes to Camp.
· Emmy Award-winning series King of the Hill returns with more "southern hospitality" from the fictional suburb of Arlen, Texas, the heartland of America.
Returning Original Specials:
* Budding comics let it all hang out in Cream of Comedy. This hour-long side-splitting Canadian showdown returns showcasing the most promising up-and-coming comics of the 11th annual Tim Sims Encouragement Fund Award Show.
* Twenty-five thousand big ones! That's what lies in store for the next lucky winner of Yuk Yuk's Great Canadian Laugh Off, where amateurs and professionals from around the world duke it out in front of a celebrity panel of judges. Anything can happen at this yuk fest!
New Acquired Specials:
Axis of Evil
* In a time when the East and West don't always seem to get along, top stand-up comics of Middle Eastern descent Ahmed Ahmed, Aron Kader and Maz Jobrani take it upon themselves to bridge the cultural gap in their hilarious comedy special, Axis of Evil. From gay terrorists to flying in post 9/11 America, nothing is off-limits for these multicultural comics who blast racial, gender and cultural stereotypes with outrageous hilarity in their one-hour, no-holds-barred show. Says Newsweek: "Ahmed, Kader and Jobrani are doing for Middle-Easterners what Richard Pryor did for African-Americans - carrying their culture to the mainstream."
Kathy Griffin: Everyone Can Suck It
* Kathy Griffin brings her patented brand of D-list diatribes back to The Comedy Network in her hilarious new stand-up special, Everyone Can Suck It. Taped in front of a sold-out crowd in Santa Rosa, CA, Griffin is at her celebrity bashing best as she takes aim at A-listers like Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton in this one-hour laffer.
Legends: Rodney Dangerfield
* The king of the one liners gets all the respect he deserves in Legends: Rodney Dangerfield, the new special from Comedy Central that honours the life and times of a genuine pioneer of stand-up comedy. This one-hour tribute features clips from Dangerfield's previous concerts, his appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, rare interview footage and accolades from an all-star line-up of his comedy friends, including Roseanne Barr, Jay Leno, Bill Murray, Chris Rock, Ray Romano and Jerry Seinfeld, among others.
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