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Comedy Central announced today that it has relaunched its stand-up comedy site Jokes.com.

The site has a large stand-up video library with more than 5,000 clips, including an archive of Comedy Central's original stand-up programming.

Jokes.com will also offer access to more than 12,000 text-based jokes and the ability to search its comedian's database of more than a thousand comedians. The site offers information when a specific comedian is on TV and allows users to buy tickets for live stand-up tours.

"Stand-up comedy has always been the backbone of Comedy Central, be it on air, on tour, on record or on DVD," said Erik Flannigan, executive vice president, digital media, MTVN Entertainment Group.

"Jokes.com expands our commitment to stand up, providing a true digital hub for comedians and a deep video archive of their performance clips, plus thousands of text jokes -- all of it organized so you can't watch or read just one."

Every joke on the site has been tagged and categorized allowing users to find jokes in 72 different categories.

Jokes.com also offers blog posts about comedians along with links for every video, text joke and blog posting.

Comedy Central says it will expand Jokes.com in the next year and will allow users to upload their own stand-up videos. More social features will also be introduced in the next few months.