Three TBS Specials to Be Taped at Just For Laughs Festival in Chicago, Including Headliners Ellen DeGeneres, Cedric The Entertainer and Andy Richter, plus Lady Antebellum and a Special Guest Appearance by Jerry Seinfeld

TBS to Provide Sneak Peek of a Special Tied to the Upcoming Film Grown Ups, Starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider

Grammy-winning trio Lady Antebellum and a special guest appearance by Jerry Seinfeld are two of the latest additions to the lineup of specials being taped for TBS at the second-annual edition of TBS PRESENTS A "VERY FUNNY" FESTIVAL: JUST FOR LAUGHS this June in Chicago.  

Three specials - Ellen's Somewhat Special Special, Cedric The Entertainer's Urban Circus and Team Coco presents Conan's Writers Live hosted by Andy Richter - are set to be taped at the Festival for premiere on TBS.  A fourth special for TBS, How to Build the Perfect Grown Up, is slated to be screened at the Festival prior to its on-air premiere.  TBS and Just For Laughs' Festival in Chicago takes place Tuesday, June 14 - Saturday, June 19, with all four specials slated to premiere on TBS the following week.

Ellen DeGeneres is back by popular demand for Ellen's Somewhat Special Special, her fourth spectacular variety special for TBS.  Packed with amazing music, magic and more, the show is slated to feature performances by Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum; top Australian magician James Galea, who combines illusions and comedy; the eye-popping, six-person team The Catwalk Acrobats, making their U.S. television debut; gymnast, acrobat and vertical-pole performer Dominic Lacasse, also known as The Flag Man; and the Japanese group Kabuki Expert, appearing in the U.S. for the first time to perform theviral-video sensation Matrix Ping Pong.

Ellen's Somewhat Special Special will also include standup comedy and an audience Q&A session with Ellen.  DJ Nick Cannon will provide the beats for the production, which is scheduled to tape at the Chicago Theatre Wednesday, June 16, at 7:30 p.m. (CT).  The one-hour special will premiere Sunday, June 27, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT) on TBS.  Ellen's Somewhat Special Special is being produced by Telepictures Productions, with Mary Connelly, Ed Glavin and Andy Lassner, whose credits include DeGeneres' Emmy-winning talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, serving as executive producers.

Cedric The Entertainer will preside as ringmaster overCedric The Entertainer's Urban Circus, which will now feature Russell Peters, Sommore and JB Smoove.  In addition, the producers of the special are thrilled to announce that Jerry Seinfeld will make a special guest appearance on stage with Cedric The Entertainer in what is sure to be a show-stopping and hilarious segment.  The show will serve as a comedic journey through the influences that have transformed Cedric in to the king of comedy that he is today.  Included will be sketches, music and urban-influenced visual performances, all coming together to form a seamless, unexpected and hysterical evening of comedy.  Reginald T McCants, Chicago native and the musical director for Bernie Mac's HBO series Midnight Mac, will be joining Cedric on stage as the show's musical director and bandleader.  Cedric The Entertainer's Urban Circus will be produced by Just For Laughs TV, with Cedric The Entertainer and Eric Rhone serving as executive producers.  It is set to tape at the Chicago Theatre Friday, June 18, at 8 p.m. and premiere on TBS Wednesday, June 23, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).

The newly announced How to Build the Perfect Grown Up special, which comes to TBS from Happy Madison Productions, celebrates the big-screen summer comedy Grown Ups.  Stars Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade and Rob Schneider will appear in the previously taped, one-hour special.  The comedy stars will trace their own lives and the evolution of their individual comic styles.  It includes an in-depth, laugh-filled discussion with the stars of Grown Ups, as well as comments, photos, film and video from family, friends and colleagues in the comedy industry.  The special will reveal what the guys were like when they were young, tracing the development of their "funny" from childhood to stardom.  It will include stories about how they got their starts in the industry, how they first met and how they have changed since becoming "grown-ups."  How to Build the Perfect Grown Up is set for a sneak peek at the Festival.  It will premiere on TBS Thursday, June 24, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).  The movie debuts in theaters nationwide Friday, June 25.

As previously announced, Andy Richter, Reggie Watts and several of Conan O'Brien's writers will team up for the one-hour special Team Coco presents Conan's Writers Live hosted by Andy Richter.  This show has previously played to sold-out audiences in Los Angeles and is coming to Chicago for one night only.   Richter was O'Brien's sidekick on Late Night with Conan O'Brien from 1993 to 2000, before venturing out to star in Andy Richter Controls the Universe and Andy Barker, P.I., and then returning to join O'Brien as announcer for The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.  The evening will also feature the musical stylings of comedian Watts, who is opening for O'Brien on The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour.  Team Coco presents Conan's Writers Live hosted by Andy Richter will be taped at the Bank of America Theater on Thursday, June 17, at 7 p.m. (CT), and premiere on TBS Sunday, June 27, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).