Straight from  Adam Cozens' happy good-times joy fun blog comes word that NYC's Comic Strip Live club will host 50 hours of continuous stand-up in an attempt to set the Guinness World Record:

Starting on Tuesday June 3rd at 8:30 pm and ending on Thursday, June 5th at 10:30 pm, Comic Strip Live will set the Guinness World Record for the Longest Stand Up Comedy Show. For 50 continuous hours, there will be laughter without end with the country’s brightest stars shining on stage.

Audiences can expect over 100 professional stand up comedians to grace the Comic Strip Live stage.

Perhaps more intriguing is that the club is also offering an open invitation to both Dane Cook and Dave Chappelle to one-up each other in their continuing stand-up marathon champ battle. Perhaps Dave's recent surprise set was merely a warm-up, like Joey Chestnut polishing a rack of ribs before the Coney Island hot dog contest?
 

Regardless of whether or not Dave and/or Dane show up, proceeds from the event will go to support the USO. That means it's for the troops, son.

I wonder if forcing Gallagher to smash watermelons at gunpoint for 50 continuous hours qualifies as stand-up, but that is something I would also like to see.

Did you hear David Letterman used the same monologue jokes two nights in a row? I sure am glad the writers' strike is over! [Defamer]

Ever wonder what it's like to intern for The Colbert Report? [No Fact Zone]

Video of an unintentionally (or is it?) cringe-comedic interview with people outside a Neil Hambuger show. [Dead-Frog]

Comedian Jim Breuer At College Party for Some Reason. [The Onion]

Tracey Ullman interview. [Winnipeg Sun] 

Ray Romano interview. [HeraldNet]

Judd Apatow/Nick Stoller interview. [Access Hollywood]

Did you hear David Letterman used the same monologue jokes two nights in a row? I sure am glad the writers' strike is over! [Defamer]

Jon Stewart to play Nashville. [Music City TV]

Mo Rocca to do interview segment on new LA show. [Hollywood Reporter]

Dane Cook helps Billy Bush recoup game-show losses. [Access Hollywood]

Lewis Black is on Conan, Artie Lange's on Kimmel, and David Spade's on Leno. [Evening Talk]

Comedy has suddenly become an endurance sport. First Dave Chappelle did a six-hour and 12-minute set. Then Dane Cook bested him, staying onstage for seven hours. And now two lesser-known comics are apparently battling to claim the title.

I mentioned this briefly Tuesday, but a few more details are now available. A Winnipeg standup named Big Daddy Tazz did an eight-and-a-half-hour standup set earlier this week:

He said he decided to break a record set by U.S. comedian Dane Cook who did a 7-hour set at Hollywood's Laugh Factory last December, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., said. However, comedian Robby Wagner gave a 10-hour routine on March 9 at Toso's Sports Grill in Phoenix, an Internet search of news releases showed.

Part of Tazz's 88-page set list included references to his own battles with bipolar depression and attention deficit disorder, the Sun said.

An anonymous comment below the article takes issue with the mention of Wagner's alleged performance and says Tazz has submitted his claim to Guinness. So who really has the record now? Beats the hell out of me, but I predict David Blaine will soon crush all previous records with a 97-hours standup set from inside a shark-infested underwater volcano... on the Moon!

With a new Comedy Central Presents premiering this Friday night and a new CD called Just the Tip out on Comedy Central Records hitting stores next Tuesday, Robert Kelly is a busy dude. But not too busy to stop by the CC offices and shoot this exclusive promo video where he calls a bunch of his comedy buddies in search of an endorsement for the new album:

For more Robert Kelly, be sure to stop by Punchline Magazine, where they just put up a new interview with him and are giving away copies of Just the Tip.

Check out a clip from Kelly's Comedy Central Presents after the jump.

Planet conquering comedian and truly nice guy Dane Cook has a new album available, and you can only "download" it from the "iTunes." Technology folks! In my day, you had to buy Dane Cook albums on a series of cassingles, one joke at a time!

Not satisfied with his recent film oeuvre, Dane Cook kept it on the real by beating Dave Chappelle's December-minted stand-up record Tuesday/Wednesday night at the Laugh Factory. By 48 minutes. As the kids like to say, if you come at the king, you best not miss.*

Club owner Jamie Masada quipped, "If this rivalry keeps up I'm going to turn the Laugh Factory into a bed and breakfast." With all due respect Mr. Masada, if it keeps up you're going to make the space an abattoir, because this feud can only end in SLAUGHTER and MADNESS.

*Apologies to Omar and the rest of The Wire crew