Live Zoom Event!
A NIGHT WITH ART BELL:
THE FOUNDER OF COMEDY CENTRAL
Friday, March 12th at 7:00 PM EST
General Admission is Free or Pay-What-You-Want! – Click "Buy Tickets" above for price options - Zoom invitation link provided in email order confirmation
Join Art Bell, the
founder of Comedy Central, for a magical evening of remarkable stories from
those early days of Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Al Franken, Richard Lewis…among
other comedy icons. And celebrate the
30th anniversary of Comedy Central’s debut!
Grab a front row seat as Art recounts how,
after convincing skeptical HBO executives to launch the world’s first
all-comedy channel, his unwavering persistence led to Comedy Central becoming
one of TV’s most successful channels. He will share rarely seen archival
television clips and photos and read excerpts from his award winning book, Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy
Central and Lost My Sense of Humor.
Art Bell is a writer and
former media executive known for creating, building, and managing successful
cable television channels. His memoir, Constant
Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor (September
2020, Ulysses Press) tells the story of how, while a financial analyst at HBO,
he pitched the idea of a 24-hour comedy network that he then helped develop and
launch. Constant Comedy was chosen as
a finalist in both the Autobiography/Memoir and Narrative: Non-Fiction
categories of the 2020 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. Art
went on to hold senior executive positions in both programming and marketing at
Comedy Central. After leaving Comedy Central, Art became President of Court TV,
where he was a guiding force behind one of the most successful brand evolutions
in cable television. In addition to writing, he plays piano and jazz drums. Art
Bell currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Deer Valley, Utah, with
his wife.
CAC Board member Jacqueline Strayer will be interviewing Art Bell.
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