Comedy Central Announces Fall Premiere Dates for This Year’s Half-Hour Standup Specials

Comedy Central just revealed the schedule for this year’s batch of Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents half-hour standup specials (formerly titled The Half Hour). This year’s specials were filmed at The Civic Theatre in New Orleans, and the series premieres with two back-to-back episodes Friday, September 15th at midnight and 12:30am and runs through the end of October. Comedy Central will also air a preview episode featuring highlights from each special on Friday, September 8th at 1:30am.

Here’s the complete schedule:

September 15: Chris Redd , Yamaneika Saunders September 22: Shane Torres, Jenny Zigrino September 29: Casey James Salengo, Jo Firestone October 6: Anthony DeVito, Julio Torres October 13: Josh Johnson, Sam Jay October 20: Joel Kim Booster, Solomon Georgio October 27: Adam Cayton-Holland

The lineup of this year’s Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents specials was announced back in March. There were originally 14 standups announced, but Austin-based comedian Lashonda Lester passed away in early April, just a little over a week before her set was scheduled to be filmed. You can read more about Lester here.

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