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HBO and AEG Live will team up once again to make Las Vegas “the home of funny” when the second annual edition of The Comedy Festival is presented Nov. 14-18, 2006. With TBS returning as title sponsor, the event will expand to five days and feature dozens of performances and special events in a variety of venues within Caesars Palace, including The Colosseum, with 4100 seats, and the outdoor Roman Plaza amphitheater.

Building on more than a decade of success with the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, HBO joined forces with live event producer AEG Live in 2005 for the inaugural edition of TCF. The 2005 edition featured a “who’s who” of comedy, including Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, George Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Bill Maher, Dane Cook, Susie Essman and Lewis Black, among others.

True to its mission of presenting comedy’s biggest stars and cutting-edge talent, the 2006 TCF will present multi-artist performances, tributes, stand-up and sketch comedy, and live televised special events including Comic Relief 2006 with co-hosts Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. Check www.thecomedyfestival.com for full festival details.

Home Box Office, Inc. is the premium television-programming subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., providing two 24-hour premium television services, HBO and Cinemax. Together, both networks reach approximately 40 million subscribers in the United States via cable and satellite delivery. Home Box Office’s international joint ventures bring HBO branded services to more than 50 countries around the globe.

AEG Live, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG, is a collection of companies dedicated to the presentation of live contemporary music performance and touring for a variety of programming and multi-media productions. The nation’s second-largest concert promotion and touring company, AEG Live comprises five regional offices and several stand-alone affiliate divisions, including: AEG Live Events; AEG-TV; AEG Live Tours & Special Events, which produces “Celine Dion A New Day…” at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas; and AEG Live Exhibitions, which recently opened “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of Pharoahs,” an international museum tour of the artifacts of King Tut. Recently promoted concert tours have included artists such as Bon Jovi, Nickelback, Neil Diamond, Prince, Usher, Kenny Chesney, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney. Goldenvoice, the company’s Southern California-based regional promotion division, created and operates the award-winning annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival.

Caesars Palace, a Harrah’s Entertainment resort, is one of the world’s best-known resort-casinos celebrating the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome, in an 85-acre destination location that sets the standard for entertainment, dining and luxury. Reigning at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, Caesars Palace ranks among the world’s top luxury resorts known for their originality and beauty and features more than 3,300 hotel guest rooms and suites, 26 diverse restaurants and cafes, 4.5-acre Garden of the Gods pools and gardens, world-class health spa and salon services, and 240,000 square feet of premium meeting and convention space. Its 4,100-seat Colosseum spotlights world-class entertainers such as Celine Dion, Elton John and Jerry Seinfeld, and sits just steps away from celebrity chef restaurants and The Forum Shops. For more information, visit www.caesarspalace.com or call (702) 731-7110 or (800) 634-6001.

TBS is television’s “very funny” network, serving as home to such hot contemporary comedies as “Sex and the City,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Family Guy,” “Seinfeld” and “Friends”; high-profile original series and specials; blockbuster movies; and hosted movie showcases.