The fourth season of Comedy Central's stand-up series The Half Hour premieres on Saturday, August 22 at Midnight ET/PT and 12:30 am ET/PT, featuring Liza Treyger and Hampton Yount. New episodes of The Half Hour will premiere throughout the fall.
Filmed at The Royale in Boston, The Half Hour showcases some of the best up-and-coming stand-up comedians. The fourteen-episode season offers sets from comedians
Tone Bell,
Michelle Buteau,
Sean Donnelly,
Phil Hanley,
Randy Liedtke,
Joe List,
Sam Morril,
Barry Rothbart,
Andrew Santino, Beth Stelling,
Liza Treyger,
Brooks Wheelan,
Andy Woodhull and
Hampton Yount.
For the first time ever, Comedy Central Records will also release stand-up comedy albums from six comedians appearing on this season of The Half Hour. The albums will be released the same week as the selected comedian's televised show premiere.
Liza Treyger - August 21
Liza was born in the former Soviet Union, raised in Skokie, Il, and spent close to six years doing stand-up in Chicago before moving to New York City in 2014. She was a standout performer at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal last summer and has appeared on Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central and Chelsea Lately. Treyger can currently be seen on MTV 2's Joking Off and her web series How Many Questions.
Michelle Buteau - September 4th
Fresh from the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival,
Michelle Buteau can also be seen on this season's Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central's own Premium Blend and Paramount Comedy Network's The World Stands Up show. She was a favorite at this year's Bumbershoot Arts Festival and HGTV's 25 Worst Mistakes series can't get enough of this hot talent. Michelle has also shared more then her opinions on VH1's Best Week Ever, MTV's Walk of Shame, and the Oxygen Network's Kiss & Tell series. Check out the latest issue of Glamour magazine where Michelle dispenses '..some hilarious..' dating do's and don'ts. When she isn't touring the country performing at colleges, Michelle hosts Travelzoo Unleashed for Travelzoo.com.
Randy Liedtke - October 9th
Originally from Oregon, Randy Liedtke has one of the tightest tushies in the biz. He now lives in Los Angeles where he is constantly cracking folks up, honestly! There's a chance you saw him doing stand-up comedy one time, and you were laughing like crazy! He is one half of the amazing podcast The Bone Zone, along with Brendon Walsh.
Sam Morril - October 23rd
Sam has appeared on Conan, Gotham Comedy Live, and The
Artie Lange Show, and hosts the Moonlighting comedy podcast. He is also featured weekly on MSG's The Bracket, where he discusses New York sports. In 2013, he performed in the New Faces showcase at the Just For Laughs comedy festival, and he was previously named a Comedy Central Comic to Watch and the winner of the Laughing Skull Festival. He can be heard on SiriusXM radio, and he performs regularly in New York City.
Sean Donnelly - November 13th
When he's not catching a nap with his bulldog, Rickles,
Sean Donnelly can be found headlining clubs all over New York, including Caroline's, Gotham, Stand Up NY, The Stand and Greenwich Village Comedy Club. He has appeared on MTV's World of Jenks and FOX's Red Eye. Sean was a Comic Stand-Off finalist at the Magners Comedy Festival, performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, was a semi-finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival competition and performed at Comedy Central's South Beach Comedy Festival. He co-hosts the podcast My Dumb Friends with fellow comedian
Dan St. Germain and hosts a weekly show at the Alligator Lounge in Brooklyn, NY. Sean can most recently be seen on Adam Devine's House Party on Comedy Central.
Andrew Santino - November 27th
Andrew Santino is a degenerate jerk from Chicago, Illinois who's emerging as one of the funniest actors, writers and comedians around. He is a national touring headliner who has written and starred in a number of shows for Comedy Central, Tru TV, MSN and most recently, the highly anticipated return of MTV's PUNK'D. Andrew is also beginning working with Activision and DumbDumb hosting a show titled Noob Tube, produced by Will Arnett and Jason Batemen. Andrew also recently starred in the Untitled Electus/Hybrid pilot UNTITLED for CBS. He is also a writer for the new TBS pilot Last Laugh. Andrew got his "movie" career start in the Luke Wilson film, Henry Poole Is Here and just wrapped the indie comedy Warren.
Andrew Santino can be seen in the upcoming seasons of The Office and Arrested Development.
Episodes of The Half Hour will be available day after air on the Comedy Central App and
cc.com/thehalfhour to fans that sign in via their cable or satellite provider. The Comedy Central App is available for iPad and iPhone on the
App Store, Android on
Google Play, Roku, Xbox One and Chromecast. The episodes will also be available for download the day after air on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Xbox Video, Apple Music, Vudu and Google Play.
The Half Hour is executive produced by John Bravakis and Stu Schreiberg. JoAnn Grigioni and Miro Terrell are the Executives in Charge for Comedy Central.