The fourth annual free comedy program. This show will feature stand-up performances by correspondents and friends of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart including Rory Albanese, Wyatt Cenac, Adam Lowitt, John Oliver and Rob Riggle. Hosted by Lewis Black.
Lewis Black has performed his caustic, cranky, bile-spewing, dead-on social and political comedy throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and The United States. As ―America‘s Foremost Commentator on Everything, he is a weekly political commentator on The Daily Show.
Rory Albanese is a four-time Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer/ Writer of The Daily Show. He is also an accomplished stand-up comedian, recently appearing in his own Comedy Central half hour special. He has toured with such comics as John Oliver, Lewis Black and Jon Stewart.
Comedian/actor/writer Wyatt Cenac currently resides in New York where he is a correspondent and writer on The Daily Show. Before that, he spent three seasons as a writer and contributed voice-over work for King of the Hill and also co-starred with Kanye West in a pilot for HBO. In 2008, he starred in the film Medicine for Melancholy, which was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.
John Oliver has been a writer and correspondent on The Daily Show since 2006. He is currently appearing in a recurring role in the NBC series Community and his own series for Comedy Central, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show. In 2009, he won the Emmy Award for Best Comedy Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series.
Rob Riggle has been performing sketch and improvisational comedy in New York and Los Angeles for the last 12 years as part of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. Rob‘s film and television work include The Hangover, Saturday Night Live, Arrested Development, The Office, and Talladega Nights.
Plus, Comedy Central‘s AddressTheMess will return again this year to distribute free reusable tote bags to the first 3,000 attendees and invite fans to properly dispose of their recyclables.
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