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   Roseanne Roast: Jeffrey Ross Makes 'Dark Knight Rises' Shooting Joke

   9:07 am 8/6/2012

   • by Rebecca Ford

   The comedian, who was dressed as Joe Paterno, likened fellow roaster Seth Green to Colorado shooter James Holmes during the Comedy Central event.Read more

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   Comedian Jeffrey Ross Attends Comedy Central Roast Dressed as Joe Paterno (Video)

   8:33 pm 8/4/2012

   • by Rebecca Ford

   Ross appears as a roaster for the event for Roseanne Barr, which airs on August 12.Read more

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   Viacom to Launch Comedy Central Extra in Adriatic Region

   3:39 am 7/31/2012

   • by Georg Szalai

   

SBB–Telemach will make the comedy network available to 1.5 million homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. Read more

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4. Comedy Manager Olivia Wingate Joins Avalon Management

   12:39 pm 7/27/2012

   • by Austin Siegemund-Broka

   She will run the company's New York office while continuing to represent such stand-ups as Reggie Watts, Marc Maron and John Hodgman.Read more

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   'Key & Peele' Stars Recall Witnessing Obama Fake His Own Poisoning Death

   12:23 pm 7/27/2012

   • by Etan Vlessing

   Accepting their Breakout Comedy Stars of the Year award at the Just For Laughs festival, the Comedy Central duo describe how the president pretended to keel over after drinking some water offered to him by an aide.Read more

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   Cable Wars: Why Viacom and DirecTV's Fight Was Just the Beginning

   11:00 am 7/26/2012

   • by Kenneth Ziffren

   Retransmission rights and a wave of deals expiring mean trouble among networks, cable companies and satellite providers. Read more

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   Comedy Central Extends Contracts With Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

   7:50 am 7/25/2012

   • by Marisa Guthrie

   New deals keep Stewart and Colbert at the network into the middle of 2015 and through the end of 2014, respectively.Read more

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   Jon Stewart Skewers ABC's Brian Ross for Linking 'Dark Knight' Shooter to Tea Party (Video)

   6:22 am 7/24/2012

   • by Erin Carlson

   The correspondent had cited the wrong James Holmes during breaking coverage of Friday's massacre in Colorado.Read more

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   Viacom’s Weaknesses Could Drag Out DirecTV Fight (Analysis)

   11:29 am 7/18/2012

   • by Alex Ben Block

   Despite the popularity of its channels and shows, Viacom lacks local channels and big sporting events that customers can’t live without. Digital rights and Epix might be the keys to an agreement. Read more

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    Comedy Central's Daniel Tosh Apologizes for Rape Joke

    6:02 am 7/11/2012

    • by Erin Carlson

    The "Tosh.0" host also maintains "there are awful things in the world but you can still make jokes about them."Read more

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