Comedy Central to Premiere a Stand Up Comedy Special Starring Christian Finnegan of Best Week Ever & Chappelle’s Show

NEW YORK, NY – February 23, 2005 – Rising comic Christian Finnegan will be starring in his first nationally-televised special, titled Comedy Central Presents Christian Finnegan. The show will premiere on Friday, March 11 at 10:00 ET, on Comedy Central and features Finnegan expounding on topics such as subway “transpotainment”, bad boy figure skaters and urinal etiquette.

Finnegan is a stand-up comedian, writer and actor from the Boston area and based in New York City. He can be seen every Friday as a panelist on VH1’s hit show Best Week Ever and recently completed a comedy tour for FHM. Chappelle’s Show fans will recognize Finnegan from the “Mad Real World” sketch in which he played Chad, the only white roommate living in a house with five black roommates. Finnegan is currently performing live in clubs across the country as part of the “I’m Rich Beeyatch!” tour featuring Chappelle’s Show regulars Charlie Murphy & Donnell Rawlings.

Additionally, Finnegan served as a staff writer for Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, wrote The Thoughtless Male Survival Guide for 1-800-Flowers as part of their Valentine’s Day promotion, and has appeared on The Today Show, I Love the 80s, Premium Blend, The Big Idea with Donnie Deutsch and Smoking Gun TV.

Excerpts from Comedy Central Presents Christian Finnegan:

· “Relationships are a lot like yard sales. They look fun from about 50 yards away, but then you realize it’s just a bunch of someone else’s junk you don’t need.”

· “I joined a gym but I never go so it's not so much that I have a gym membership, it's more like I pay an $85 a month Fat Tax.”

· "When a man reaches about 30, his dad should sit him down for a 2nd birds and the bees conversation. ‘Well son, there's going to come a time in every bee's life when…well, maybe the ‘stinger’ doesn't respond quite the way it used to.”

For Finnegan’s complete resume, photos, video clips, calendar, original writing and more, please visit www.christianfinnegan.com.