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Wilson Chapman editorJust For Laughs, the world’s largest annual comedy festival, has announced a new slate of performers for its upcoming 40th anniversary festival.“We are overjoyed to be able to bring the preeminent Just For Laughs Festival back to Montréal this summer, for a historic milestone festival” Just For Laughs president Bruce Hills said in a statement on Tuesday. “We share in the world’s heaviness right now, and as leaders in the comedy industry, we are hopeful that we can provide some much-needed levity and premium quality laughter for all audiences, industry and artists planning to gather in Montréal this July.”The festival has announced that John Mulaney, Hasan Minhaj, Tommy Tiernan, Vir Das, Celeste Barber and Neal Brennan will perform concert shows during the festival.

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is heading back to its old home at 733 11th Avenue in New York and will bring back a live studio audience for the first time in two years.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Schuler, who has produced stand-up comedy specials including Netflix’s Ronny Chieng: Asian Comedian Destroys America and Michael Che Matters, has joined 800 Pound Gorilla Media to head up a new production arm.

EXCLUSIVE: Doogie’s journey through medicine and adolescence in Hawai’i will continue. Disney+ has picked up a second season of Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. starring Peyton Elizabeth Lee as the titular prodigy. The renewal comes almost three months after the Season 1 finale of the coming-of-age medical half-hour dramedy was released Nov. 10.

Universal, Blumhouse,  Atomic Monster and Divide/Conquer AI thriller M3GAN, starring Allison Williams, will hit theaters on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Sony is in early development on Thread, which Jeremy Slater, the head scribe of the upcoming Disney+/Marvel series Moon Knight, will write and direct.

Dave Chappelle is teaming up with Netflix.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (★★★☆☆), the first Marvel entry to feature a predominantly Asian cast. Directed and co-written by Destin Daniel Cretton (Just Mercy), the film expands the franchise mythology, while leaping feet-first into its own style of wuxia action superhero fantasy steeped in Chinese culture.The plot still relies on the regular go-to of a villain coveting magical talismans — in this case, the titular ten legendary rings.

The stars of the new Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings stepped out to celebrate at the film’s premiere!

Ethan Shanfeld Nick Kroll, Megan Stalter and Marc Maron are among the comics set to headline this year’s New York Comedy Festival, running from Nov.

NEW YORK -- Marc Maron, Bill Maher, Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng, Colin Quinn and Nick Kroll will headline this year’s New York Comedy Festival, which returns for laughs after last year's event was canceled due to the pandemic.The weeklong festival this fall will also feature Michelle Buteau, Vir Das, Tim Dillon, Gary Gulman, Jon Lovett’s Lovett or Leave It, Norm Macdonald, Brian Regan, Andrew Santino and Megan Stalter.The festival runs Nov. 8-14.

The New York Comedy Festival has set a lineup of 200 performers set to take the stage across the city’s five boroughs when the festival returns in-person in November.

(CNN)Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson are gathering some of comedy's biggest names in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of 9/11."NYC Still Rising After 20 Years: A Comedy Celebration" was announced Monday as a one-night-only event to be held September 12 at Madison Square Garden.Scheduled performers include Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Colin Jost, Colin Quinn, Dave Attell, Dave Chappelle, Jay Pharoah, Jimmy Fallon, John Mulaney, Jon Stewart, Michael Che, Pete Davidson, Ronny Chieng, Tom Segura and

Variety reported. “It’s nice to be able to do this with friends and people we love.”The comedy commemoration, entitled “NYC Still Rising After 20 Years: A Comedy Celebration,” will feature an all-star lineup of comics, including Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Colin Jost, Colin Quinn, Dave Attell, Dave Chappelle, Jay Pharoah, Jimmy Fallon, John Mulaney, Michael Che, Ronny Chieng, Tom Segura and Wanda Sykes.

Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson are teaming up for a night of comedy in New York City benefitting various 9/11 charities.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central is expanding The Daily Show universe with another podcast.

EXCLUSIVE:  Crazy Rich Asians actor and stand-up comedian Ronny Chieng has joined Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s tech horror thriller M3GAN from filmmaker Gerard Johnstone.

Also Read: 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' Pushes Back Release Date as Part of Massive Disney ShuffleThe Marvel Cinematic Universe film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Chen, Meng’er Zhang, Florian Munteanu and Ronny Chieng.“Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings” is directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and produced by Kevin Feige and Jonathan Schwartz, with Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and

EXCLUSIVE: Ronny Chieng, one of the correspondents on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is going scripted.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorSaban Films has acquired North American rights to “Long Story Short,” written by, directed by and co-starring Josh Lawson. The romantic comedy also stars Rafe Spall, Zahra Newman, Ronny Chieng and Dena Kaplan.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVComedian Ronny Chieng has struck a deal with Netflix for three upcoming projects: two new stand-up specials and a docu-style comedy special, Variety has learned exclusively.The still-to-be-titled docu-comedy special is described as a “semi-scripted road trip comedy” in which Chieng and his fellow comedian David Fung journey through a one-of-a-kind tour of America’s Chinatowns to promote local businesses, explore Asian American culture and push “each

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorGeoff Stults (Little Fires Everywhere, 12 Strong), Tamara Tunie (Black Earth Rising, Dietland), Mason Alexander Park (Hedwig and the Angry Inch National Broadway Tour), Rachel House (Thor Ragnarok, Soul), Ann Truong (Strikeback!, Hard Target 2) and Hoa Xuande (Ronny Chieng: International Student, Top of the Lake) have joined the cast of Cowboy Bebop, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series.

NEW YORK -- This year’s Stand Up for Heroes fundraiser is going virtual for the first time and The Boss will once again be there.

New York's annual Stand Up for Heroes comedy benefit for wounded veterans and their families is going virtual amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This year's lineup for the 14th annual event, set for Nov.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticStand Up for Heroes, the annual New York comedy event hosted by Jon Stewart honoring veterans and their families, will go virtual for the first time in its 14-year history.

Peter White Television EditorTelling jokes on television is tricky enough without throwing in a global pandemic, patchwork production facilities, empty rooms and poor internet connections.However, the correspondents on The Daily Show have been valiantly ploughing through to support Trevor Noah on the Comedy Central show for the past four months to provide entertainment in tough times.Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan, Roy Wood Jr.

Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, Fast & Furiousstar Sung Kang, poet Rupi Kaur, The Daily Show contributorRonny Chieng, actress Kelly Hu, pop icon Vanness Wu, rapper Dumbfoundead, fashion designers Prabal Gurung and Phillip Lim, and basketball star Jeremy Lin are among the notables confirmed for the live-stream benefit #OURIDENTITY: Project Blue Marble.

By Dino-Ray Ramos

Ronny Chieng first burst into the national consciousness in October 2016 with a Daily Show segment skewering a racist Fox News segment set in Chinatown.