COMEDY CENTRAL LIVE ANNOUNCES ANTHONY JESELNIK: LIVE BEGINS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATER DURING THE MOONTOWER COMEDY FESTIVAL IN AUSTIN, TX WITH TICKETS CURRENTLY ON SALE

New Series "The Jeselnik Offensive" airs Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on COMEDY CENTRAL

Tour Info and Links to Purchase Tickets Available at www.comedycentral.com/comedy-tours and http://www.anthonyjeselnik.com/

NEW YORK, March 19, 2013 -- Fans can personally bear witness to the dark and twisted comedy styling of Anthony Jeselnik, host of COMEDY CENTRAL's "The Jeselnik Offensive," this spring when he hits the road on a nationwide stand-up tour. Anthony Jeselnik: Live kicks off on Wednesday, April 24 at the Paramount Theater in Austin, TX during the Moontower Comedy Festival and travels to more than 15 cities with over 20 performances (full tour schedule at the end of this release).

Tickets for Anthony Jeselnik: Live are currently on sale. For tour info and links to purchase tickets, fans can visit www.comedycentral.com/comedy-tours and http://www.anthonyjeselnik.com/.

"The Jeselnik Offensive" features host Anthony Jeselnik as he unleashes his razor-sharp take on current shocking, dark and lurid stories in this weekly, topical series. Two panelists join Jeselnik on each show to deride pop culture and gleefully rip the veil of sanctity from off-limit topics. The series airs Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT following new episodes of "Tosh.0."

The mischievous Jeselnik, once dubbed "the Satanic prince of stand-up, a black-hearted joke slinger with a ferocious and unstoppable will to power" by the A.V. Club and "a bad man" (meant in the nicest way) by Conan O'Brien, has written for and appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" and has appeared on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," as well as "John Oliver's New York Stand-up Show." Jeselnik recently secured his reputation as the dark prince of comedy in his one-hour stand-up special for

COMEDY CENTRAL, "Anthony Jeselnik: Caligula," which premiered in January. His comedy album, "Shakespeare," was released on COMEDY CENTRAL Records in 2010 and named Comedy Album of the Year by Punchline Magazine. Jeselnik received an Emmy(R) nomination last year for Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music or Comedy Special for COMEDY CENTRAL's "A Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education."

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ANTHONY JESELNIK: LIVE

DATE CITY VENUE
April 24 Austin, TX Moontower Comedy Festival at Paramount Theater
April 26 Minneapolis, MN Varsity Theatre (2 shows)
April 27 Denver, CO University Of Denver- Gates Concert Hall (2 Shows)
May 2 Washington, DC Lincoln Theatre
May 3 Atlanta, GA Georgia Tech's Ferst Center
May 4 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
May 10 Atlantic City, NJ Borgata Music Box
May 11 Pittsburgh, PA Carnegie Library Music Hall
May 16 New York, NY Carolines On Broadway
May 17 New York, NY Carolines On Broadway (2 Shows)
May 18 New York, NY Carolines On Broadway (2 Shows)
May 19 New York, NY Carolines On Broadway
May 30 Dallas, TX House Of Blues
May 31 Houston, TX House Of Blues
June 1 New Orleans, LA Harrah's New Orleans (2 Shows)
June 6 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
June 7 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater
June 8 Seattle, WA Neptune Theatre