On October 15 at 8:00 pm, Jon Stewart will host Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Benefit for Autism Education on Comedy Central. The live event will also be simulcast on ComedyCentral.com along with additional footage. A ton of comedians and performers will be featured, including Bob Odenkirk, Jack Black, David Cross, Elvis Costello, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ricky Gervais, Will Ferrell, Norm MacDonald, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and Paul Rudd. Musician Moby will direct the house band for the evening.

Proceeds from the event will go to several autism educational and advocacy groups, including money from any downloads of the event purchased from the iTunes music store, which will be made available for thirty days starting on October 16. Tickets are currently on sale through Ticketmaster.

In response to concerns about profanity from some affiliates, CBS will simulcast the Naudet brothers' September 11th documentary on its website. About 10 percent of CBS affiliates will not air the documentary because they fear steep fines from the FCC for the use of the F-word by firefighters as the real-life drama unfolds. I can't find a list of the affiliates that won't air the documentary, and I'm not sure if your listings are updated so if you're TiVoing it, you may want to be there at 8 pm Sunday night just to make sure it's actually being recorded.

Interesting announcement from CBS News today: Starting on Katie Couric's first day, September 5, the CBS Evening News will be simulcast on the web at the same time it is shown live on the east coast, 6:30 PM. This is the first time an entire network newscast will be available live online. In addition, online users will have the option of watching that night's newscast on demand after its initial airing, or put together a "custom" newscast from available stories.

There will also be a few online-only features available, all hosted or authored by Couric: a pre-newscast blog similar to NBC's "The Daily Nightly", an extended interview segment with that day's newsmaker, a early-afternoon "first look" videocast, and "Katie Couric's Notebook," a one-minute podcast focusing on a specific story. The audio and video versions of this will also be available on iTunes.

Wow. CBS is really working Ms. Couric, aren't they? I guess she's used to it, considering she used to be on-air for two hours every morning. As long as none of those stories involve any highly-personal medical procedures, we should be OK.

[via TVNewser]