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  The National Comedy Center in Jamestown will be preserving a piece of comedy history. Legendary producer, director, writer and actor Carl Reiner today announced an initiative to digitally preserve his extensive personal collection of production-used scripts from "The Dick Van Dyke Show." The scripts for all 158 episodes, which are heavily annotated in Reiner's own handwriting, have been stored away since the series ended in 1966 and have never before been made available to a cultural institution for conservation or exhibition. The announcement came on Reiner's 97th birthday. https://comedycenter.org/dick-van-dyke-show-archives/

REED, SCHUMER, GILLIBRAND ANNOUNCE JAMESTOWN COMEDY CENTER IS OFFICIALLY  THE NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER OF THE UNITED STATES Reps: “National Comedy Center Is A Cultural Institution And Tourism Magnet: Connecting, Inspiring, And Educating Visitors From All Over The Country About America’s Rich History Of Comedy” National Comedy Center Also Builds On A Tradition Of Comedy History In Jamestown, NY, Birthplace Of Legend Lucille Ball Reed, Schumer, Gillibrand: Comedy Has Found Its Permanent Home In Jamestown WASHINGTON –  Representative Tom Reed, Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand today announced that their legislation designating Jamestown’s National Comedy Center as the official “National Comedy Center” of the United States has passed Congress and been signed into law as part of the 2019 Lands Package. The Comedy Center, located in downtown Jamestown and partially built to honor the vision of Jame...

Jamestown, New York – February 11, 2019 –  The National Comedy Center, the nation’s first museum and visitor experience dedicated to the comedic arts, announced today that Sebastian Maniscalco and John Mulaney will headline the 2019 Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, August 7-11. Tickets for their performances will go on pre-sale for National Comedy Center members only — starting Wednesday, February 20 at noon ET at  www.ComedyCenter.org . Public on-sale date will be Friday, February 22 at noon ET. Many festival events have yet to be announced, in a lineup that will celebrate comedy’s contemporary stars, rising voices, and historic legacies. Sebastian Maniscalco and John Mulaney are two of the most popular and acclaimed comedians in the country in 2019 — Maniscalco breaking several comedy box office records over the past year, and Mulaney named “one of the best stand-up comics alive” by  Entertainment Weekly . John Mulaney will be performing on Friday, August 9...