AUSTIN -- Hey hey, everybody! I’m back for my third year of sharing some of the lovely comedic jewels of Austin, Texas’s South by Southwest with you friendly Laughspin readers. This year, the fest has bulked up its comedy offerings substantially: three different venues with...
When you shove a video camera in Tina Fey's face on the streets of New York City and start asking her inane questions about a joke she made about Taylor Swift, be prepared. That scene played out yesterday when a paparazzo-type, fishing for a reaction, got just that. After...
Last weekend news broke that Jimmy Fallon would replace Jay Leno in 2014 as host of The Tonight Show and that NBC would make the announcement as early as May. Although the network denied the story in the Hollywood Reporter, who cited “two high-level industry insiders” and...
Valerie Harper, who, along with Mary Tyler Moore, helped usher in an era of female-led television sitcoms, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and has as little as three months to live, according to a new cover story in People. “A battery of tests revealed she has...
As if the casting for Anchorman: The Legend Continues wasn’t already stellar – the entire original cast is back as well as Kristen Wiig! – Harrison Ford has now officially joined the shenanigans. Ford, who joins Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner,...
Jon Stewart will take a 12-week sabbatical from The Daily Show this summer in order to direct a movie about a journalist who was captured and imprisoned by Iranian forces. Longtime Daily Show correspondent John Oliver will take Stewart's place during that time. The movie, a...
Here’s a little piece of exciting comedy news: comedian Ted Alexandro and longtime creative partner Hollis James have created a series called Teachers Lounge, wherein Ted and Hollis play best friends, a music teacher and janitor, respectively. In order to survive the...
UPDATE (3/6/13): 9:32 pm EST -- Tina Fey told Entertainment Tonight the following: "If anyone was going to get mad at us, I thought it would be James Cameron. I did not see that one coming. It was a joke. It was a lighthearted joke." UPDATE: 4:52 pm EST -- Amy Poehler had...
NBC will announce in May its plans to replace current Tonight Show host Jay Leno with the increasingly popular Jimmy Fallon. This, according to the Hollywood Reporter, who cite "two high-level industry insiders," despite NBC's denial and a rep for Leno who said, "we don't...
