Anthony Jeselnik's 'Shakespeare' to be Released Digitally by COMEDY CENTRAL Records(R) on September 21

Sep 07, 2010
By ViacomCBS Staff

Comedian Anthony Jeselnik comes to COMEDY CENTRAL Records with his new, full length, digital-only album, "Shakespeare" released on September 21. Recorded at New York's UCB Theater, Jeselnik's "Shakespeare" is 50 minutes of his amazingly cocky humor.

Jeselnik is an exceptional stand-up comedian who performs all over the country and extensively in Los Angeles and New York City. He has appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," "Last Call with Carson Daly," "Down and Dirty with Jim Norton" and his own special, "COMEDY CENTRAL PRESENTS: ANTHONY JESELNIK." He was featured in HBO's U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in 2006 and Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival in 2008 and 2010. Jeselnik was named one of Variety's "10 Comics To Watch" in 2008 and he was featured on COMEDY CENTRAL'S HOT LIST as one of the hottest comics of 2009. Jeselnik was most recently a writer and performer on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

Previously-released recordings by COMEDY CENTRAL Records include: Doug Benson's "Hypocritical Oaf," Kevin Hart's "Seriously Funny," Lewis Black's "Stark Raving Black," "The Sarah Silverman Program Soundtrack Album," George Lopez "Tall Dark and Chicano," Greg Giraldo's "Midlife Vices," Nick Swardson's "Seriously, Who Farted?," Doug Benson's "Unbalanced Load," Dane Cook's "ISolated INcident," Cook's platinum-selling "Harmful If Swallowed" and double-platinum "Retaliation," Mitch Hedberg's "Do You Believe in Gosh?," Grammy Award-winning "Lewis Black: The Carnegie Hall Performance," Grammy Award-nominees' Steven Wright's "I Still Have A Pony" and George Lopez's "America's Mexican," among others.

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