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TBS Just For Laughs Chicago presented by State Farm, America’s largest comedy festival, will break new boundaries by providing comedy fans around the country with an all-access pass to a digital comedy hub “@ Stage 773”. Throughout the festival – which takes place Tuesday, June 11 to Sunday, June 16 – performances “@ Stage 773”” will be presented across multiple platforms through such high-profile digital outlets as Team Coco, Dailymotion, Yahoo!, Twitter, YouTube, Google+, The Nerdist, Broadway Video’s Above Average, Instagram, Pandora, SiriusXM, Chill.com, Set List as well as the festival’s website: www.justforlaughschicago.com. A digital comedy hub “@ Stage 773” will play host to solo shows by some of the hottest names in comedy, plus breakthrough performances by emerging talent. In addition, Stage 773 will feature exclusive live presentations from today’s most popular podcasts, including You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes, Doug Loves Movies, Ari Shaffir’s Skeptic Tank, and The Team Coco Podcast. Comedy fans will be able to enjoy a selection of the performances online for free around the clock.

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TBS Just For Laughs Chicago has announced the addition of Russell Brand, Pete Holmes, Paul F. Tompkins, Brian Posehn, Doug Benson, Todd Glass, Scott Adsit, Kevin Dorff, Jon Glaser, TJ & Dave, Horatio Sanz, Matt Walsh, Brad Morris and Joe Nunez to its 5^th anniversary festival line-up. America’s biggest comedy festival also announced the addition of a second Nick Swardson show at The Vic to accommodate tremendous demand, and director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) will make a special appearance to introduce an advance screening of his new movie The Heat at Kerasotes ShowPlace ICON on June 11.

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 We’re glad to announce some of the main acts coming out to Chicago for the TBS Just For Laughs 2013 comedy festival! The Lineup for America’s Biggest Comedy Festival Includes:

Bill Maher (Politically Incorrect, Real Time w/Bill Maher, Religulous)

Seth Meyers (SNL’s Weekend Update and 2011 Correspondents Dinner)

Bob Newhar  (The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart)

David Cross (Arrested Development and Mr. Show)

Nick Swardson (Reno 911, Malibu’s Most Wanted, …Chuck & Larry)

John Hodgman (The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart)

Artie Lange (MADtv, The Artie Lang Show, The Howard Stern Show)

Hannibal Buress (Stand-Up comedian, writer on 30 Rock)

Al Madrigal (The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart)

Maria Bamford (Comedian of Comedy)

Dylan Moran (Yeah,Yeah)

Anjelah Johnson (MADtv)

*Plus the stars of TBS’s Sullivan & Son, truTV’s Impractical Jokers And IFC’s The Whitest Kids U’ Know, with more surprises TBA soon.

Hit the jump to read the full Press Release and read some info on the shows these comedians will bring to the festival and the locations where these will take place. [...]

Fans of the hilarious animated show Archer? See the Agents of ISIS and the masterminds behind Archer….LIVE! H. Jon Benjamin (Sterling Archer), Aisha Tyler (Agent Lana Kane), Chris Parnell (Cyril Figgis), Amber Nash (Pam Poovey), Lucky Yates (Krieger) and Matt Thompson (Archer executive producer) are set to appear on these Archer Live! events. NEW TOUR DATES have been added for Nashville, TN and Grand Prairie, TX; tickets go on sale Friday, April 12 at 10 am EST. [...]

Whereas SXSW is more than just a music festival with its Films and Interactive (tech) events, Bonnaroo also features comedy events. The Manchester, TN festival can boast about a pretty sweet comedy lineup this year. Some of the bigger names include Daniel Tosh, Bob Saget, David Cross, Maria Bamford, and Ed Helms.

Some of those on this year’s lineup are listed below but in the video above you can see David Cross announce the comedians who will join him this year down in Tennessee. [...]

Comedy Central has put together an excellent list of veterans and up-and-comers to tape their half hour specials for the second season of the network’s show, The Half Hour. Every night, from February 26 to March 1, the live audience will be treated to two comedians per show for an hour of stand-up. Some of the comedians you lucky folks in Boston will receive at The Royale include Jonah Ray (Nerdist Podcast), Erik Griffin (Montez on Workaholics) and Dan St. Germain (John Oliver’s NY Standup Show).

See the full list of comedians, dates and ticket info after the jump. [...]

Workaholics fans in New York and Boston will have the chance to see the show’s new season premiere a day early!  [...]

The 2012 edition of the comedy festival, Just For Laughs Chicago, is now in full swing. For the second night in a row we attended a show for the festival and the set sure did not disappoint. Thursday night’s bill: Patton Oswalt, featuring Kyle Kinane as the opener at the historic Chicago venue, The Vic Theatre. [...]

Conan O’Brien will be recording his Conan late night show in Chicago for a week this upcoming June.  It was just announced today that Chicago’s own Kids These Days will be the musical guest on the June [...]

The annual comedy festival is coming back to Chicago in 2012 and what a way for it to come back! We have all you need to know about the fest right here… [...]