Comic Catharsis Coming to College Campuses! 'COMEDY CENTRAL Live On Campus Presents Greg Giraldo: The Indecision 2008 Tour' Kicks Off at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL on Monday, January 14

Comic Catharsis Coming to College Campuses! 'COMEDY CENTRAL Live On Campus Presents Greg Giraldo: The Indecision 2008 Tour' Kicks Off at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL on Monday, January 14

Tour info available at www.comedycentral.com

One Lucky Winner To Receive A 2008 KIA Spectra SX And $2,000

Giraldo To Host COMEDY CENTRAL's 'Friday Night Stand-Up' On Friday, February 8 From 10:00 P.M.-12:30 A.M. ET/PT

NEW YORK, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Socially and politically provocative comedian Greg Giraldo is hitting college campuses across the country in a 20- city stand-up tour. Kicking off on Monday, January 14 at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, FL, "COMEDY CENTRAL Live On Campus Presents Greg Giraldo: The Indecision 2008 Tour" will travel to numerous cities nationwide (see list at the end of the release). President Bush impressionist James Adomian as well as other comedians (TBD) will be the openers on the tour.

Tour info is available at www.comedycentral.com.

Additional tour dates are continually being added to the schedule and will be posted on the site. As part of the tour, one lucky winner will be selected at random via an online sweepstakes which launches on February 16 to get a 2008 KIA Spectra SX and $2,000. The sweepstakes will run through May 12. The tour is sponsored by KIA and KFC.

Greg Giraldo is one of New York City's top comedians and headliner in clubs across the country and has become one of the most versatile and highly entertaining comics working today. Previous to his days in comedy, Giraldo worked as a lawyer having attended Columbia University and Harvard Law School.

Giraldo's television appearances include numerous performances on "Late Show with David Letterman," as a guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" over a dozen times and as a regular panelist on "Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn," which aired for three seasons on COMEDY CENTRAL. In October 2006, COMEDY CENTRAL Records(R) released his first stand-up CD "Good Day To Cross A River."

Giraldo will host COMEDY CENTRAL's "Friday Night Stand-Up" on Friday, February 8 from 10:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. ET/PT.

Giraldo will appear as a comic advocate in COMEDY CENTRAL's new series "Lewis Black's Root of All Evil," debuting March 13 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, in which Black puts pop culture on trial and presides over the comedic proceedings. The show pits two people such as Paris Hilton vs. Dick Cheney or pop culture topics such as You Tube vs. Porn against each other in an open debate setting. A rotating group of comedians will take the stage and argue who or what is most evil with Black making the final decision between the two.

"COMEDY CENTRAL Live" is the network's successful live comedy venture working with today's leading stand-up comedians. Celebrating its fifth anniversary in 2007, "COMEDY CENTRAL Live" has sold over one million tickets and grossed 40 million dollars in box office receipts. The tours feature the hottest stand-up comedians on the scene including Dave Attell, Lewis Black, Drew Carey, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Demetri Martin, Carlos Mencia, Brian Regan and Wanda Sykes.

"COMEDY CENTRAL Live On Campus Presents Greg Giraldo: The Indecision 2008 Tour" dates:

DATE CITY VENUE
January 14 Boca Raton, FL Florida Atlantic University
January 30 San Luis Obispo, CA California Polytechnic State University
February 9 Clinton, NY Hamilton College
February 15 Bellingham, WA Western Washington University
March 13 Birmingham, AL Birmingham Southern College
April 11 Cincinnati, OH University of Cincinnati

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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