Comedian Bo Burnham to Tape First-Ever Special at the Newly Branded COMEDY CENTRAL's House of Comedy Live From House of Blues in
February 22 2010 - 11:22AM
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Tickets Go On Sale Friday, February 26 With Links To Purchase
Tickets And Info Available At www.jokes.com, www.livenation.com And
www.hob.com/boston Performance Will Tape As An Original One-Hour
Stand-Up Special To Air In Fall 2010 On COMEDY CENTRAL And Be
Released On DVD Via COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment And CD Via
COMEDY CENTRAL Records NEW YORK, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Bo Burnham
is blowin' up on the comedy scene. This 19-year old
comedian/singer/songwriter/musician and Boston native is taking his
tight rap skills intertwined with creatively executed stand-up to
become the first comedian to kick off COMEDY CENTRAL's House of
Comedy Live from House of Blues, a monthly COMEDY CENTRAL branded
stand-up showcase in House of Blues venues nationwide. COMEDY
CENTRAL is taping two one-hour stand-up specials from House of
Blues venues, with the first special "Bo Burnham: Words, Words,
Words" in Boston on Friday, April 16. Last week, COMEDY CENTRAL,
the preeminent brand in comedy, and Live Nation, the world's
premier live entertainment company, announced and launched this new
venture. Tickets will go on-sale beginning Friday, February 26,
2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Tickets are available on
http://www.jokes.com/, http://www.livenation.com/,
http://www.hob.com/boston or by calling 877-598-8689. Tickets are
also available in advance at Boston's Orpheum Theatre box office
and at the House of Blues box office on day of show only (starting
one hour prior to door time). In addition, COMEDY CENTRAL will
shoot "Words, Words, Words" as an original one-hour stand-up
special which will air in fall 2010 and subsequently be released
with extended material on DVD and CD. Burnham's COMEDY CENTRAL
Records self-titled album rocketed to #1 on the Billboard Comedy
Chart (Billboard Chart date week of 02/07/10) after hitting #2 in
COMEDY CENTRAL's "Stand-Up Showdown." Three years ago, Burnham was
just another high-school student recording YouTube videos for fun.
Today, Burnham has burst on the comedy scene with a full-length LP,
a COMEDY CENTRAL special and a deal to pen a film for Judd Apatow.
Entertainment Weekly recently named Burnham one of the "12 Rising
Stars of Comedy." At 18, the comedian became the youngest person to
record a "COMEDY CENTRAL Presents" stand-up special which premiered
last year. During the fall of his junior year in high school,
Burnham started teaching himself how to play piano and guitar. Soon
after, he wrote and composed autobiographical songs, such as "My
Whole Family Thinks I'm Gay," as non-fictional jokes between him
and his friends. In 2006, Burnham recorded two of his songs as
videos and posted them on YouTube. Three years and fifteen videos
later, his videos have been seen over 50 million times worldwide.
The songs, recorded in Burnham's bedroom with a camera resting on a
stack of books have been remixed, rated and reviewed thousands of
times. In June 2008, Burnham signed a four-record deal with COMEDY
CENTRAL Records and released his first digital-only EP "Bo Fo Sho"
on iTunes. With growing internet buzz, Burnham was invited to the
Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal in 2007 where he met
Judd Apatow. Apatow flipped for the then 17-year-old and shortly
after, Burnham signed a deal to write the script and songs for an
"anti-high school musical" feature in which he would also star,
with Apatow producing. Burnham has already started compiling film
credits with roles in Apatow's "Funny People" and Rob Schneider's
"Virgin on Bourbon Street." COMEDY CENTRAL's Live Entertainment
division commenced in 2003 and partnered with Live Nation
Entertainment for their first tour together, "COMEDY CENTRAL LIVE
Starring Lewis Black and Dave Attell" with special guest Mitch
Hedberg. Since then, the successful live comedy partnership has
produced tours for some of today's leading stand-up comedians such
as Mike Birbiglia, Drew Carey, Dave Chappelle, Stephen Lynch,
Demetri Martin, Carlos Mencia and Wanda Sykes. The network's latest
tour, starring Gabriel Iglesias, kicked off in January 2010. COMEDY
CENTRAL's House of Comedy Live from House of Blues dedicated site
is jokes.com which features performance information for upcoming
shows and allow visitors to order tickets online. Additional ticket
and tour information can be found at LiveNation.com. About COMEDY
CENTRAL: COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is
seen in more than 98 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is
owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a
wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE:VIANYSE:andNYSE:VIA.B)
MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is
http://www.comedycentral.com/. For up-to-the-minute and archival
press information and photographs visit Press Central, COMEDY
CENTRAL's press Web site at http://www.comedycentral.com/press.
About Live Nation: Live Nation Entertainment is the world's premier
live entertainment company, consisting of Live Nation, Ticketmaster
and Front Line Management Group. As the world's first artist-to-fan
vertically integrated live entertainment platform, the company is
improving the fan experience and driving major innovations in
ticketing technology, marketing and service. Live Nation is the
largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually producing
more than 22,000 concerts on behalf of 1,500 artists in 57
countries. In 2008, over 50 million fans attended Live Nation
concerts, and the company drove more than 70 million unique
visitors to LiveNation.com and other online properties.
Ticketmaster serves more than 10,000 clients worldwide in multiple
event categories and sold more than 141 million tickets valued at
over $8.9 billion on behalf of its clients in 2008. Live Nation is
headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the New
York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For additional
information about the company, please visit
http://www.livenation.com/investors. DATASOURCE: COMEDY CENTRAL
Corporate Communications CONTACT: Aileen Budow, +1-212-767-3952, ,
or Renata Luczak, +1-212-767-8661, , both of COMEDY CENTRAL; or
Heidi Collins of LIVE NATION, +1-617-547-0620, Web Site:
http://www.comedycentral.com/
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