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| COMEDY CENTRAL Records® was launched by COMEDY CENTRAL in 2002 with the goal of reviving the comedy album, a genre that had seen a severe decline in sales and production over the prior two decades. The label was also one of the first to include a DVD component as part of the record. COMEDY CENTRAL Records has become the nation's premiere comedy label and the most successful record label start-up during this time. To date, no other comedy label has had the wealth of talent, number of releases, or consistently strong sales that COMEDY CENTRAL Records has enjoyed. Dane Cook's "Retaliation" reached Double Platinum sales levels, "Harmful If Swallowed" hit Platinum and "Rough Around The Edges" hit Gold. COMEDY CENTRAL Records releases have received an enormous amount of critical acclaim in addition to financial success. In 2011, COMEDY CENTRAL Records' release of Lewis Black's "Stark Raving Black" was honored with the Grammy Award as Comedy Album of the Year. COMEDY CENTRAL Records has previously won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 2010 for Stephen Colbert's "A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All" digital album and in 2007 with "Lewis Black's The Carnegie Hall Performance." Prior Grammy nominations for COMEDY CENTRAL Records include Steven Wright's "I Still Have a Pony," George Lopez's "America's Mexican" and "Tall, Dark & Chicano" and Lewis Black's "Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues" and "Anticipation." COMEDY CENTRAL Records releases from "Crank Yankers," Dane Cook, Jim Gaffigan, Lewis Black, Mitch Hedberg, Demetri Martin, Patton Oswalt, Daniel Tosh and Bo Burnham (to name a few) have all held positions on the Billboard Top 200, as well as at the top of the Independent Albums chart for multiple weeks. COMEDY CENTRAL Records has had spectacular growth, which coincided with the depths of the worst-ever record industry downturn -- a remarkable achievement that flies in the face of the overall music industry's trend of double-digit annual decreases. COMEDY CENTRAL Records has single-handedly brought back the comedy album and embraced the digital platforms as a means of reaching its demo. As a testament to the label's success, record stores have started comedy sections and given existing comedy sections more exposure and better placement within their establishments. Digital download-to-own distributors like iTunes and eMusic have made their comedy sections higher-profile thanks to COMEDY CENTRAL Records releases and continue to be some of the most profitable categories. COMEDY CENTRAL launched and dominates almost all of the digital download-to-own comedy categories and consistently has approximately 15 of its records in iTunes' Top 25 comedy album chart. COMEDY CENTRAL Records is distributed worldwide by ADA (Warner). Recent Releases John Mulaney "New In Town" (January 2012) Tom Papa "Live From New York City" (January 2012) Joberg & Gurbner "Manhood" (December 2011) Carlos Mencia "Carlos Mencia: New Territory" (December 2011) Ryan Stout "Touché" (December 2011) Rachel Feinstein "Thug Tears" (November 2011) The Beards of Comedy "Cardio Mix" (November 2011) Pete Holmes "Impregnated with Wonder" (November 2011) Mo Mandel "The M Word" (November 2011) Lewis Black "The Prophet" (September 2011) Patton Oswalt "Finest Hour" (September 2011) T.J. Miller "The Extended Play EP" (September 2011) Joe DeRosa "Return of the Son of Depression Auction" (September 2011) Doug Benson "Potty Mouth" (August 2011) Wyatt Cenac "Comedy Person" (August 2011) Dan Levy "Congrats On Your Success!" (August 2011) Michael Ian Black "Very Famous" (August 2011) Maron Maron "This Has To Be Funny" (August 2011) Michael Ian Black "Very Famous" (August 2011) Christopher Titus "Neverlution" (June 2011) Kurt Metzger "Talks To Young People About Sex" (June 2011) Tommy Johnagin "Stand Up Comedy 2" (June 2011) Norm Macdonald "Me Doing Stand-Up" (June 2011) Amy Schumer "Cutting" (April 2011) Mike Birbiglia "Sleep Walk With Me" Live (March 2011) Natasha Leggero: "Coke Money" (March 2011)Louis Katz: "If These Balls Could Talk" (March 2011) Daniel Tosh: "Happy Thoughts" (March 2011) Eddie Griffin: "You Can Tell 'Em I Said It" (February 2011) Denis Leary: "Douche-Bag" (January 2011) Louis CK: "Hilarious" (January 2011) |
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