Comedy Central Honoured w 9 Primetime Emmy Nom's

Comedy Central® Honoured with Nine Primetime Emmy® Nominations

THE DAILY SHOW, THE COLBERT REPORT & SOUTH PARK
THREE SHOWS, NINE NOMINATIONS, ONE CHANNEL

Auckland, New Zealand, July 9, 2010 -- COMEDY CENTRAL earned nine nominations in the 2009-2010 Primetime Emmy® Awards competition, it was announced today by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS).

Thirteen-time Emmy-winner (seven times for program and six for writing) "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" the network's unique news parody series, is nominated this year in five categories: Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series and Chuck O'Neil, singled out for the seventh year-in-a-row for Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series. Two additional nominations came in the Technical Direction category and The Daily Show Ask a Correspondent piece, “The Meaning of Life,” credited to thedailyshow.com, COMEDY CENTRAL Digital. This brings the grand total of Primetime Emmy nominations for the "Daily Show" to 37. The program is also a two-time winner of the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

Watch the latest episodes of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, weekdays @ 10:30pm. SKY CHANNEL 010.

"The Colbert Report," with Stephen Colbert assuming a dismissive, Bill O'Reilly-like persona while commenting on the issues of the day, received three Emmy Award nominations: Outstanding
Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series, a category in which it won its first Emmy in 2008, and Director Jim Hoskinson was cited for Outstanding Directing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Series. The show has been nominated in each of these categories for four years-in-a-row; its total number of nominations now stands at 18. The show has also been honored with the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

Watch the latest episodes of “The Colbert Report”, weekdays @ 11pm. SKY CHANNEL 010.

Four-time Emmy-winner "South Park," the adult animation phenomenon, home to Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman, received its tenth Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program. Nominated for "200 / 201," the show in its 14th season remains COMEDY CENTRAL's highest-rated show. It too has won the prestigious Peabody® Award for Excellence in Broadcasting.

Spend the afternoon with the boys from “South Park”, weekdays @ 2:30pm. Kick off your weekend with a three hour marathon of “South Park”, every Saturday morning from 7:30am. SKY CHANNEL 010.

The Emmy Awards will be presented in two ceremonies. The first, primarily for creative arts categories, will take place on Saturday, August 21, while the balance of the Emmys, primarily for the performing arts, will be announced before a black-tie audience during a primetime telecast on Sunday, August 29. Both ceremonies will take place at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, CA.

The following is a complete list of COMEDY CENTRAL's nominations.

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Steve Bodow, Head Writer. Rory Albanese, Kevin Bleyer, Rich Blomquist, Tim Carvell, Wyatt Cenac, Hallie Haglund, JR Havlan, David Javerbaum, Elliott Kalan, Josh Lieb, Sam Means, Jo Miller, John Oliver, Daniel Radosh, Jason Ross, Jon Stewart, Writers.

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
Chuck O'Neil, Director, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL DIRECTION, CAMERAWORK, VIDEO CONTROL FOR A SERIES
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart “Episode 15032”
Andre Allen, Technical Director. Tom Dowling, Tim Quigley, Rich York, Phil Salanto, Camera. Paul Ranieri, Video Control.

OUTSTANDING SPECIAL CLASS PROGRAM
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: “Ask a Correspondent – The Meaning of Life”
Rich Sullivan, Rachel Maceiras, Paul Beddoe-Stephens, Co-Executive Producers.
Judi Stroh, Producer.

OUTSTANDING VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report

OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
The Colbert Report
Barry Julien, Head Writer. Stephen Colbert, Allison Silverman, Tom Purcell, Rich Dahm, Michael Brumm, Rob Dubbin, Opus Moreschi, Peter Gwinn, Jay Katsir, Frank Lesser, Glenn Eichler, Peter Grosz, Meredith Scardino, Max Werner, Eric Drysdale, Writers

OUTSTANDING DIRECTING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES
Jim Hoskinson, The Colbert Report

OUTSTANDING ANIMATED PROGRAM (For Programming One Hour or Less)
South Park, “200 / 201”

ENDS

About Comedy Central: Comedy Central is the world’s only all-comedy network and has an estimated global audience of over 140 million. It is responsible for some of the biggest comedy hits of all time. Comedy Central, now in its 18th year globally, has built a diverse, global business by putting funny first in everything it does. Comedy Central New Zealand is the sixth localized Comedy Central channel to launch in the last two years and joins the portfolio of channels spanning the USA, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Hungary and Poland. Comedy Central NZ is the first in Asia Pacific.

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