'Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up' Airs on Starz Every
                        Wednesday at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)

    ENGLEWOOD, Colo., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Bronx, N.Y. native Joey
Medina and Brooklyn, N.Y. native Shang, will perform in the Starz original
stand-up comedy series "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up" on
Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).

    Medina's screen credits include "The Original Kings of Comedy" and
"Comic View." His first screenplay "El Matador," in which he made his
directorial debut, swept the 8th Annual East Los Angeles Chicano Film
Festival in 2002 by winning Best Film, Best Director and Best Acting
Awards.

    Shang's TV credits include "Def Comedy Jam," "Comic View," "Heroes,"
and "CSI: Las Vegas." He is also the co-producer and host of BET's "Access
Granted," and Jamie Foxx's "Laffapalooza!" A graduate of Carnegie Mellon
University, Shang also attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. His comedy
career began when a friend bet him $50 to take the stage during an open-mic
night at a local comedy club. He won the bet and has been performing for 15
years.

    "Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand-up" is executive produced
by one of America's most popular actor/comedians, Martin Lawrence. Now in
its third season, the weekly series features 35 talented, explosive, and
certainly not politically correct, comedians who take the spotlight to tell
it like it is in their own hard-hitting style. Filmed before a live
audience in Washington, D.C. at the historic Lincoln Theatre, the show is
hosted by comedian Doug Williams who adds his own style of comedy. Spinning
the music is celebrated entertainer and DJ Biz Markie.

    Starz Entertainment, LLC, is a premium movie service provider operating
in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels including the flagship
Starz(R) and Encore(R) brands with approximately 17 million and 31.3
million subscribers respectively. Starz Entertainment airs more than 1,000
movies per month across its pay TV channels and offers advanced services
including Starz HD, Encore HD, Starz On Demand, Encore On Demand, MoviePlex
On Demand, Starz HD On Demand, Encore HD On Demand, MoviePlex HD On Demand,
and Starz Play. Starz Entertainment (http://www.starz.com) is an operating
unit of Starz, LLC, which is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media
Corporation, and is attributed to Liberty Entertainment Group, a tracking
stock group of Liberty Media Corporation.



     Contact(s):

     Rhiannon Hendrickson               Chelsye J. Burrows
     Starz Entertainment                Starz Entertainment
     720.852.5802                       720.852.5838
     rhiannon.hendrickson@starz.com     chelsye.burrows@starz.com

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