Gervais’ character, Andy Millman, is a pudgy, fortysomething Everyman who’s given up an unnamed but well-paying day job to become a film actor. Alas, his career is going nowhere, thanks to his ...

HBO and Anschutz Entertainment Group have partnered to create the Comedy Festival, to be held Nov. 17-20 in Las Vegas. TBS will serve as title sponsor of the inaugural, consumer-oriented event ...

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By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter Valerie Cherish is back on TV — again — in the first full trailer for the HBO comedy series The Comeback. Canceled after a single season in 2005 ...

In 2005, HBO launched a second event ” The Comedy Festival ” in Las Vegas, featuring many of the same big names that had appeared in Aspen. Vegas’ Comedy Festival, geared toward a general audi­ence, ...

In his new HBO comedy special “The Great Depresh,” he ... His first comedy CD, “Conversations with Inanimate Objects” was released in 2005. In 2006, he opened for Dane Cook on his ...

HBO is teaming with actress ... has ordered a pilot for a half-hour comedy inspired by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s debate-stirring 2005 book Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide.