Live Twitter 'Town Hall' - Twitter With Michael Ian Black and Michal Showalter During an All-New Episode of 'Michael & Michael Have Issues' Airing Wednesday, July 29 at 10:30pm ET/PT

Live Twitter 'Town Hall' - Twitter With Michael Ian Black and Michal Showalter During an All-New Episode of 'Michael & Michael Have Issues' Airing Wednesday, July 29 at 10:30pm ET/PT

Twitter Users Can Submit Questions And Their Funniest Commentary Before, During And After The Wednesday, 7/29 Airing of "Michael & Michael Have Issues" In A Two Hour Twitter Event www.michaelandmichaelhaveissues.com Features Blogs, Tweets, Video Updates, Messages From The "Michaels," Original Drawings And Exclusive Videos, Reviews Of New Episodes, Video Highlights After Each Premier Episode

NEW YORK, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter Michael Ian Black! Chat Up Michael Showalter! Live Twitter "Town Hall" begins at 9:30pm ET as Black and Showalter from "Michael & Michael Have Issues" pre-tweet and encourage viewers to Twitter their questions and funniest show commentary before, during and after the show.

The new episode of "Michael & Michael Have Issues" debuts at 10:30pm ET/PT. Commentaries from Twitter-users will be featured along with the Michaels' own commentary, as well as other show cast members in re-tweets and on blogs.

Discussion continues post-show, shifting the focus to questions for the cast. The Michael and Michael blog at www.michaelandmichaelhaveissues.com serves as home for this event, where users can follow the curated tweets from the Michaels, the cast and viewers in almost real time via frequently-updated live blog.

"Michael & Michael Have Issues" stars Black and Showalter in a new twist on narrative and sketch comedies that features the long-time comedic partners as the hosts of their own fictitious sketch show. In the seven-episode series, sketches will be interspersed throughout the narrative thread of each episode. Behind-the-scenes of the show-within-a-show, viewers will get a first-hand look at issues, both big (in an attempt to broaden their appeal, the guys turn their show into a frat house spectacle) and small (the two Michaels fight over the approval of a teenage intern who is writing an article about them for his high school newspaper) that the two misguided stars wrestle with as they confront their own issues of insecurity and jealousy as each attempts to undermine the other. Other issues in the series include roommate rivalry when the "Michaels" secure a college gig, playing cupid for an unlucky-in-love co-worker and what birthday gift to give the boss who has everything.

Credits for "Michael & Michael Have Issues" include Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter, Jim Biederman ("Whitest Kids U Know," "I'm With Busey") and Lou Wallach as executive producers and Jim Sharp and Christina Lee as executives in charge of production for COMEDY CENTRAL.

Viewers can log onto www.michaelandmichaelhaveissues.com and follow along with Michael and Michael online as they use their blog, tweets and videos to find new ways to do what they do best -- get on each other's nerves. Black and Showalter and members of the cast and crew provide updates from the set along with messages and thoughts from the "Michaels," as well as original drawings and videos. Each week, the site will feature video previews of new episodes, video highlights of some favorite moments immediately after each episode premieres and exclusive videos from the duo. Fans will also be able to test their smarts with a great new "Michael & Michael Have Issues" word game. For viewers on the go, "Michael & Michael Have Issues" will be available on their mobile phones with a Web site, streaming video and blogs.

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:and) (NYSE:VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL is a registered trademark of Comedy Partners. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs, visit "Press Central," COMEDY CENTRAL's press-only web site, at www.comedycentral.com/press.

MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) , is one of the world's leading creators of entertainment content, with brands that engage and connect diverse audiences across television, online, mobile, games, virtual worlds and consumer products. The company's portfolio spans more than 150 television channels and 350 digital media properties worldwide, and includes MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Harmonix, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Noggin, The N, AddictingGames, Neopets, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, Gametrailers and Xfire

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