Great Performances on PBS

Alan King, who hosted a comedy symposium at Harvard in 1997, returns to academia for “College of Comedy with Alan King II,” taped at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He's joined by Carl Reiner and stand-up comic George Wallace, as well as sitcom regulars Brad Garrett (“Everybody Loves Raymond”), Kathy Najimy (“Veronica's Closet”) and Caroline Rhea (“Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”). Among the topics: “the luxury” of language. “Today's comics can say anything,” King says. “I'm all for it.”