New York Comedy Festival

USAToday.com

Updated 6/17/2009 at 4:33 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Ricky Gervais, Tracy Morgan and Bill Maher will headline the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival.

Organizers announced Wednesday that Gervais and Morgan will perform at Carnegie Hall and Maher will play Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Specific dates for the performances weren't announced; the festival will be held Nov. 4-8.

Gervais said that it was an honor to headline the festival and to play Carnegie Hall, which he noted was near his apartment.

Said Gervais: “I can walk to work. I won't walk, obviously. I'll take a limo. But I could walk if I had to.”

More performers will later be announced for the festival, which expects to showcase more than 150 comedians.

NYTimes.com

Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

Published: June 18, 2009

Ricky Gervais, Tracy Morgan and Bill Maher will be the headliners of the 2009 New York Comedy Festival, which will run from Nov. 4 through 8 and feature more than 150 comedians, its organizers said. Mr. Gervais, a star of the comedies The Office and Extras, will perform a show at Carnegie Hall; a date for that show has not been announced.

Entertainment Weekly

Jun 17 2009 06:04 PM ET

by Dave Karger

British actor/comedian Ricky Gervais has been tapped to headline this year's New York Comedy Festival, which runs November 4-8 at Carnegie Hall. Gervais will perform his new one-man show, Out of England 2. “Headlining one of the most prestigious comedy festivals in the world is an amazing honour for me,” Gervais said in a statement. “The fact that it's at the beautiful and historic Carnegie Hall makes it all the more wonderful. It's just down the road from my apartment. I can walk to work. (I won't walk obviously. I'll take a limo. But I could walk if I had to.)” Gervais will also be seen in theaters in this September's comedy The Invention of Lying.

CBSNews.com

NEW YORK, June 17, 2009

150 Comedians, Including Bill Maher Are Expected To Perform At The Sixth Annual Festival

(AP)  Ricky Gervais Tracy Morgan and Bill Maher will headline the sixth annual New York Comedy Festival.

Organizers announced Wednesday that Gervais and Morgan will perform at Carnegie Hall and Maher will play Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Specific dates for the performances weren't announced; the festival will be held Nov. 4-8.

Gervais said that it was an honor to headline the festival and to play Carnegie Hall, which he noted was near his apartment.

Said Gervais: “I can walk to work. I won't walk, obviously. I'll take a limo. But I could walk if I had to.”

More performers will later be announced for the festival, which expects to showcase more than 150 comedians.