YAAAAAAAAAY! COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment Releases 'The Best of Crank Yankers: Uncensored' DVD Hitting Stores on Tuesday, December 4

YAAAAAAAAAY! COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment Releases 'The Best of Crank Yankers: Uncensored' DVD Hitting Stores on Tuesday, December 4

Features Crank Calls From Comedians Jack Black, Dave Chappelle, Dane Cook, Denis Leary, Seth MacFarlane, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes And More

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The laughter. The tears. The vomit. Now over 50 of your favorite calls from COMEDY CENTRAL's "Crank Yankers" are available in this glorious DVD collection. Look back on all your favorite moments, from Hadassah's obnoxiously uncomfortable questions about poop to Spoonie Luv's liberal use of the word "badonkadonk," to the time Special Ed yelled "I got mail!" 48 different times in one call (we counted). Released by COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, "The Best of Crank Yankers: Uncensored" DVD arrives in stores nationwide on Tuesday, December 4 and will also be available at http://shop.comedycentral.com/.

"The Best of Crank Yankers: Uncensored" DVD is one disc featuring over 50 of the top most outrageous calls from comedians such as Jack Black, Dave Chappelle, Dane Cook, Denis Leary, Seth MacFarlane, Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes and more. "Crank Yankers" is a series based on outrageous crank calls made by real comedians to real people, delivered to viewers through puppets. When watching "Crank Yankers," viewers eavesdrop on the puppet citizens of Yankerville as they go about their lives. The relationships and interactions among the puppets are all based on real crank phone calls and the dialogue that was established on these calls.

"Crank Yankers" was executive produced by Daniel Kellison, Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla of Jackhole Industries. Zoe Friedman was the executive in charge for COMEDY CENTRAL.

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 91 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:VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com.

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MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:VIA.B), is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. MTV Networks, with more than 140 channels worldwide, owns and operates the following television programming services - MTV: MUSIC TELEVISION, MTV2, VH1, mtvU, NICKELODEON, NICK at NITE, COMEDY CENTRAL, TV LAND, SPIKE TV, CMT, NOGGIN/THE N, VH1 CLASSIC, MTVN INTERNATIONAL and THE DIGITAL SUITE FROM MTV NETWORKS, a package of 13 digital services, all of these networks trademarks of MTV Networks. MTV Networks connects with its audiences through its robust consumer products businesses and its more than 300 interactive properties worldwide, including online, broadband, wireless and interactive television services and also has licensing agreements, joint ventures, and syndication deals whereby all of its programming services can be seen worldwide.

Source: COMEDY CENTRAL Corporate Communications

CONTACT: Renata Luczak for COMEDY CENTRAL, +1-212-767-8661, or
renata.luczak@comedycentral.com; or Brenda Ciccone for Paramount Home
Entertainment, +1-323-956-8091, or brenda_ciccone@paramount.com

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