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The hour-long show will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL on Sunday, December 2 at 10:00 p.m. Shot live at LA's Wilshire Theatre, "COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '07 Starring Lewis Black" is a one-of-a-kind year-end event. This special features exclusive stand-up routines from the sharpest minds in comedy, as well as an animated short film, all of which bring the year into focus and skewer the world of politics, sports, celebrity, movies and much more.
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"COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '07 Starring Lewis Black" will stream online at comedycentral.com for one week starting at 2:00 a.m. on December 3. comedycentral.com's site features online polls, exclusive videos and the game "Last Laugh '07: Pop Torture," which features a series of microgames where users must rapidly complete tasks like shaving Britney Spears' head and slamming the cell door shut on Paris. Viewers can go to LastLaugh07.com to vote on polls that cover pop culture, politics and sports and can vote on answers offered by top bloggers including Gothamist, Huffington Post and Deadspin. Exclusive videos include extended rants from Lewis Black and a special 2007 remix of the online viral phenomenon "Chocolate Rain" by Tay Zonday. In addition, the COMEDY CENTRAL Insider blog will offer three weeks of coverage including a Geek Year-In-Review blog from cult duo Hard 'n Phirm, Caption Challenges and the menagerie of COMEDY CENTRAL talent weighing in on the question, "Which 'personality' from 2007 needs to just go away, and why?"
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Satirist and standup comic Lewis Black rose to prominence in the late '90s with regular appearances as a commentator on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Obsessed with human stupidity, Black became one of the show's most distinctive contributors with his weekly "Back in Black" segment; his delivery was so full of frothing, barely articulate bile and rage that it could sometimes obscure the sharpness of his social and political observations. Black graduated from the Yale Drama School and worked for a government anti-poverty program under President Nixon before becoming the playwright in residence at the West Bank Café Downstairs Theatre Bar in Manhattan. Black authored over 40 plays that were produced there and at other theaters across the country (one, The Deal, was made into a movie). Seeking to move into comedy, Black made his motion-picture debut in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters in 1986, and went on to land a series of guest-starring roles on TV shows like Law and Order, Murphy Brown, Mad About You, Homicide, and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (the last of which was recurring); he ... appeared in several more films, including 1990's Jacob's Ladder. Black's standup star began to rise with appearances on Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and he landed a big break when he signed on as a regular contributor to The Daily Show.
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Lewis Black graduated from Yale's drama department and like most aspiring thespians, took a variety of jobs while waiting for his big break. Moving to Manhattan, he took a job in a government-funded anti-poverty program that gave him a firsthand look at a myriad of social and economic issues. Eventually, Black became the playwright in residence at the West Bank CafÃÂé Downstairs Theater Bar, where over 40 of his plays were produced. One of his plays, The Deal, was optioned and made into a movie, which gave Black the "in" he was looking for. In 1996, the comedian made his motion picture debut with a role in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters, which in turn led to a prodigious run of guest starring roles on TV shows such as Murphy Brown, Law and Order and Mad About You. Appearances on high-profile comedy-oriented talk shows Late Show With David Letterman and Late Night With Conan O'Brien proved fertile ground for Black, who was subsequently hired as a contributor to The Daily Show, where his two-minute political and pop culture rants made him a national hero.
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"COMEDY CENTRAL's Last Laugh '07 Starring Lewis Black" offers an edgy, alternative year-in-review with headliners Lewis Black, Dave Attell and D.L. Hughley, who rip into 2007 like one of Michael Vick's dogs...bloodshed guaranteed. Fasten your seatbelts; this is going to be one wild ride.
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