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CNN Original Series "Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game" tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

CNN Original Series "Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game" tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

The second season of the critically-acclaimed The History of Comedy is a six-part CNN Original Series that is executive produced by Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner (Hazy Mills) with Emmy Award winners Mark Herzog and Christopher G. Cowen (Herzog & Company), and showrunner Stephen J. Morrison, and examines what makes people laugh and how comedy has affected the social and political landscape throughout history. How sexual humor, one of the oldest forms of comedy, pushes the limits of both comfort and political correctness.

Exploring the history of sketch and improv comedy and how it evolved into a significant part of comedic talent today.

I haven’t seen this new History of Comedy installment, which is all about humor in animation. But when it comes to television, if it’s a well-researched hour, it’ll start with Crusader Rabbit, Jay Ward’s pioneering precursor to his “Rocky & Bullwinkle” series, syndicated circa 1950.

Comedy teams have always been an important part of classic comedy – think Laurel & Hardy, Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Martin and Lewis, and Nichols and May. The tradition of comedic teams has continued over the decades with the examples of Cheech and Chong, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, the Blues Brothers, and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. It continues to reinvent itself today in the form of sketch teams like Key and Peele, musical acts like Garfunkel and Oates, and twin brother stand-up team, the Lucas Brothers.

Exploring the passing of comedic legends and how the connection with their audiences makes the loss more significant.

Emmy and Peabody Award winning Anthony Bourdain is back for another season filled with all new destinations, including Hanoi, London, Montana, and Rome. Travel with him across the globe to these incredible locations to uncover the little known, the off-the-road, and seemingly sometimes deceptively familiar, areas of the world.

CNN Original Series "Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game" tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

ENLIGHTEN US: THE RISE AND FALL OF JAMES ARTHUR RAY is the story of the motivational rock star's meteoric rise, fall and return to the $11 billion self-help industry after his negligent homicide conviction in the death of three clients at a sweat lodge at one of his events. As this story unfolds, we learn from Ray, his followers and his accusers, about how their methods of self-improvement ultimately caused so much suffering.