By Sonia Weiser | May 31, 2013 at 3:41 pm | One comment
In an interview on this week's The Paul Mecurio Show, Jay Leno talked candidly to comedian Paul Mecurio about his days as a struggling comic, sleeping outside or crashing on friends' couches, and how he slowly made it big. One of his many words of wisdom for young comics was to...
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By Laughspin Staff | May 31, 2013 at 12:13 pm | No comments
Last night some of the world’s best known Boston-native performers – including comedians Dane Cook and Steven Wright – came together at the TD Garden in Beantown to raise money for The One Fund in honor of the victims of last month’s bombing at the Boston Marathon. Cook...
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By Sonia Weiser | May 31, 2013 at 11:33 am | No comments
There's been a recent surge in famous people using Kickstarter to fund their pet projects, and the trend is receiving quite a bit of backlash. But before you swear off donating to someone you've seen on television, consider helping Eugene Mirman bring his Brooklyn-based Eugene...
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By Zach Buckner | May 30, 2013 at 12:11 pm | No comments
Comedian Maria Bamford’s lunacy and mastery of awkwardly disgusted facial expressions has looped itself on the silver-silver screen this past week. Coming off the tailspin of a brilliant drug-addled performance in the new season of Arrested Development (alright, the comments...
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By Laughspin Staff | May 30, 2013 at 12:01 pm | No comments
Each week, Zach Stone (Bo Burnham) hatches a plan to get famous on Zach Stone is Gonna be Famous. Seeing as it’s the summer before college starts – and he has no plans on attending – time is of the essence for the recent high school grad. On tonight’s episode – 10:30...
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By Sonia Weiser | May 29, 2013 at 9:53 am | No comments
Graduation season has come and gone, which means commencement speeches have been cropping up all over the Internet. There were the politicians, the academicians, the authors and the entertainers, most of whom opened the grab bag of motivational cliches and plucked out a few that...
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By Sonia Weiser | May 28, 2013 at 4:26 pm | No comments
Let's be honest; as informative and emotionally stirring as they can be, watching documentaries can be exhausting-- even the uplifting ones. The underdog stories or the tales of the inner city school teacher who finally gets through to her students can result in frequent time...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 28, 2013 at 2:11 pm | One comment
Lest you believe Joseph Gordon-Levitt has limited range as an artist, he’s following up last year’s Oscar-winning Lincoln, in which he played the president’s son, Robert, with the lighter fare of Don Jon, a comedy in which he wrote, directed and stars. With a stellar cast...
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By Sonia Weiser | May 24, 2013 at 6:09 pm | No comments
To promote The Hangover Part III, Zach Galifianakis and Ken Jeong, sat down with KISSFMUK to dissect the meta nature of the franchise's use of tropes, whether Zach will host the Oscars (no), how Ken's short stature is fitting for someone with a fear of heights, and if they would...
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