Stand up comedian and the 2010 AVN Awards Show host Dave Attell will be hosting a new show starting Thursday night on Showtime. The comedy show called Dave’s Old Porn is a 30 minutes celebration of the most known porn movies made in the late ’70s and early ’80s and will run eight episodes a week from 11:30 p.m.

The Stand Up for Family comedy show is back with its second season. The stand up comedy show hosted by Bill Bellamy debuted last year and now is going to come back on air. Stand Up for Family features Bellamy with several other comedians such as Earthquake and Wil Sylvince.

Stand up comedian Kevin Hart jus signed a contract with ABC for a guest role in the TV series Modern Family. The comedian will play Andre, a new neighbor of Phil Dunphy who happens to be a physician. It is not the first time comedian Kevin Hart stars with some of the cast members from Modern Family. He co-starred opposite Sofia Vergara in the 2004 movie Soul Plane.

Stand up comedienne Lisa Lampanelli is going to appear in one of the future episodes on the NBC sitcom Whitney. Lisa Lampanelli will guest star for one episode, playing a dog pound manager. Her job is to evaluate if Whitney (Whitney Cummings) and Alex (Chris D'Elia) are eligible to adopt a dog.

Stand up comedian Louis Katz has scheduled a comedy performance on NBC on The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The NBC show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon will start at 12:35 p.m. and the stand up comedian is expected sometimes during the show.

Kent Alterman, head of original programming and production at Comedy Central announced today that Nick Swardson’s insane TV show called “Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time” is going to come back with his second season on Wednesday, October 5 at 10:30 p.m.

Reality shows seem to have taken over our lives nowadays. There are more and more of them on TV and their subjects go sometimes above real life. But they present us real situations, indeed. This is the same case with reality show “Same Name”, a show in which a celebrity switches places with a common person who has the same name.

Stand up comedian Andrew Dice Clay is not only doing stand up comedy, but he is playing a “heightened version” of himself in the TV series “Entourage”. Paying a recurrent role in this final season of “Entourage”, stand up comedian Andrew Dice Clay hopes that this part is going to be his launching ramp in the world of comedy. This way, he wants to follow the footsteps of John Travolta whose career blossomed after his part in “Pulp Fiction”.

On Monday, talent show and contest “Show Me the Funny” will open his gates for 10 no-namers in stand up comedy to give them a chance to gain a name, a stand up comedy DVD as well as £100,000 and a national tour.

Well known stand up comedian Jason Manford is coming back but on the small screens this time. After a pause due to his infidelity problems, Jason Manford is going to host the “Show Me the Funny” stand up comedy contest for little or unknown stand up comedians. The 10 stand up comedians-contestants fight for £100,000 in cash, a nationwide multi-date UK tour throughout September, and their very own DVD at Christmas.

Ben Bailey will perform stand up comedy this week. But don't be fooled, it's all new material. The comedian wants to delight his audience with new fake stories that seem real. I guess Ben Bailey has a great imagination that he puts in his stand up comedy acts.

Jerry Seinfeld's show The Marriage Ref will be in downtown Greensboro on October 17, looking for married couples with issues.

Lewis Black appeared on the Daily Show the other night and ranted on about the education in America.

Jimmy Carr signed up for a new show on Channel 4.

The Marriage Ref is coming to Phoenix, Arizona seeking couples for the show.

Jamie Foxx returns to FOX for new sketch comedy series.

Margaret Cho will compete on ABC's Dancing With Stars, season 11.

Eddie Izzard has signed up for a role on Showtime's series United States of Tara, created and written by Academy Award winner Diablo Cody .

Martin Lawrence's stand-up comedy series returns for 5th season.

Ricky Gervais is already planning a film of his TV show Life's Too Short.

Bill Cosby stopped the other day by the Today Show and talked about his new web series OBKB, as well as about the rumors about his death.

Janeane Garofalo and Russ Tamblyn will guest star in the IFC's original comedy series, The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.

British comedian Ricky Gervais has revealed that he is taking his hit show The Office to China.

Ellen DeGeneres can dance and she does it great, as she proved on season finale of 'So You Think You Can Dance'.

The FX network has renewed Louis C.K.'s series, Louie, for a second season, as the general manager John Landgraf announced.

The 1-hour stand up special "The Littlest Suspect" starring actor and comedian Kevin Pollak will premiere on Thursday, July 29 on Showtime.

Comedian David Cross has signed up to join the new series on FOX Running Wilde, which will air this fall.

Ricky Gervais has revealed he had some difficulties shooting scenes with Larry David for Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Comedian Jo Koy signed a talent deal with Warner Bros TV, to create a sitcom based on Jo Koy's stand up comedy.

Aziz Ansari will host on June 6, the 19th Annual MTV Movie Awards, which will be aired live from the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California.

Dane Cook was challenged to fight by American Idol' Rejected Ian Benardo, who interrupted Dane Cook's performance and did a Kanye, grabbed the comedian's micrphone and ruined the moment.

Janeane Garofalo returns to stand up comedy, after almost a decade, for a one-hour special on EPIX, which will have the premiere on June 26, at 10:00 p.m. Janeane Garofalo' stand up comedy special was filmed live at Seattle's Moore Theatre in front of a sold-out audience.

Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham will host the 2010 CMT Music Awards video of the Year Special, on Saturday , June 5 at 2:00 p.m.

Carlos Mencia is going to be interviewed for "I am Comic", a new documentary that will be presented this summer on Showtime.

Jerry Seinfeld's Marriage Ref tv show was renewed again this season by NBC. The officials from NBC made the announcement about a news season of Marriage Ref, on Monday.

HBO renewed the deal for a ninth season of Real Time With Bill Maher and the deal covers two years with the funny host. The deal is set for 35 episodes of Real Time With Bill Maher and will air from January till November.

George Lopez comedy will be back on television, starting November 9, with Lopez Tonight, a talk show on TBS. After the smash success of George Lopez Show, the comedian known for George Lopez's video Why You Crying and other stand up comedy shows returns on TV, planning to be as he stated, the raciest interviewer on television.

During his HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher, the comedian and tv host criticized President Obama for his too frezquently tv appearances. During his monologue from Frday night, Bill Maher complained about Obama's obsession with being on TV and stated "This is not what I voted for. I don't want my president to be a TV star.

Jay Leno will be present tomorrow night, on Real Time With Bill Maher . The NBC star Jay Leno will discuss the top stories of this week on Bill Maher's Real Time on HBO. "Real Time with Bill Maher" is an HBO satirical talk show, one hour-long, hosted by the funny Bill Maher, former host of Politically Incorrect. Unlike his previous show, guests are usually fewer actors and random celebrities.The guests of Real Time With Bill Maher are politicians, actors, writers, journalists or comics, invited to talk about different topics.

Jerry Seinfeld will be back on TV with a new show, as NBC announces the new shows for 2009-2010. After the huge success of Bee Movie or Seinfeld TV show, when every Seinfeld episodes were making huge audience points with Seinfeld cast: George Costanza, Elaine Benes, Cosmo Kramer or Newman, the star will return to TV producing "The Marriage Refs", a primetime reality show.