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Blue Note Comedy SeriesRita RudnerA house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000, Rudner is known for herepigrammaticone-liners. Over the course of amulti-year run she sold almost two million tickets, grossed over a hundred million dollars and become thelongest-running solo female comedys how in the history of Las Vegas. She was named Las Vegass Comedian of The Year nine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballets Woman Of The Year Award. In October 2017 she was given the Casino Entertainment Legend Award.Ritas first solo HBO special, Rita Rudners One Night Stand, was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on As two one-hour specials for HBO, Born to Be Mildand, Married Without Children, were ratings standouts and she performed all over the country, filling Carnegie Hall in New York three times. In 2008 Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBSs first ever stand-up comedy special.Rita Rudner has written five books; her best selling non-fiction titles, Naked Beneath My Clothes Rita Rudners Guide to Men and I Still Have It...I Just Cant Remember Where I Put It, plus the novels Tickled Pink and Turning the Tables. The audio version of Naked Beneath My Clothes received a Grammy nomination.Rudner is a frequent collaborator with her writer/producer husband of thirty years, Martin Bergman. The couples first produced film script was Peters Friends.The film, starring Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie, Kenneth Branagh, Imelda Staunton, Stephen Fry, and Rita, won the Evening Standard Peter Sellers Award for Best British Filmand was nominated for the Goya Award for Best European Film of 1994. The script was nominated for a WGA Best Screenplay Award and Rita won Best Supporting Actress at the American Comedy Awards.The couples second film project, a TV movie called A Weekend In The Country, starred Rita, Jack Lemmon, Dudley Moore, Richard Lewis, Ch