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Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, and SNL’s original cast/writers to headline 2018 Lucille Ball Comedy Fest and the opening of the National Comedy Center

April 11, 2018

Years in the making, the National Comedy Center will celebrate its grand opening this August in Jamestown, New York — just time for the annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, which will include appearances and performances by Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, and Dan Aykroyd with other original members of Saturday Night …

Anniversary of Lucille Ball’s birthday greeted with new statue, all-star comedy fest and prep for a national comedy museum in her New York hometown

August 6, 2016August 6, 2016

Lucille Ball would have turned 105 today. To celebrate, Ball’s hometown of Celeron, N.Y., unveiled a brand-new statue of the iconic TV comedy legend today — sculpted by Carolyn D. Palmer, chosen from a nationwide search after the previous sculpture of Ball was deemed more scary than lovable. “I not …