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Harrison Ford joins Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and co. for Anchorman sequel

Harrison Ford joins Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and co. for Anchorman sequel

By | March 6, 2013 at 11:20 am | One comment

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,...

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Watch Joan Rivers interview Sarah Silverman for 25 minutes

Watch Joan Rivers interview Sarah Silverman for 25 minutes

By | March 5, 2013 at 11:20 pm | 6 comments

If you've been following the new season of WEtv's reality show Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?, you'll know that Joan Rivers has had plans to launch her own Web series. Well, tonight we see that come to fruition with the first episode of In Bed with Joan, which features the...

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Jon Stewart will take 12 weeks off from The Daily Show to direct his first movie

Jon Stewart will take 12 weeks off from The Daily Show to direct his first movie

By | March 5, 2013 at 3:41 pm | No comments

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...

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Lewis Black, Ted Alexandro, Judah Friedlander and more team up for Teachers Lounge (Video)

Lewis Black, Ted Alexandro, Judah Friedlander and more team up for Teachers Lounge (Video)

By | March 5, 2013 at 2:16 pm | One comment

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...

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Aggressively boring Taylor Swift implies ‘there’s a special place in hell’ for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

Aggressively boring Taylor Swift implies ‘there’s a special place in hell’ for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler

By | March 5, 2013 at 1:12 pm | 6 comments

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...

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Report: Jimmy Fallon will replace Jay Leno on Tonight Show in 2014

Report: Jimmy Fallon will replace Jay Leno on Tonight Show in 2014

By | March 2, 2013 at 1:07 pm | 11 comments

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...

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The Laughspin Interview with legendary comedian George Wallace

The Laughspin Interview with legendary comedian George Wallace

By | March 2, 2013 at 9:43 am | No comments

Two minutes into a conversation with legendary stand up comedian George Wallace and it’s clear that even after thirty-six years the man still loves his job. Lucky for us he does. Not just because we still get to enjoy his rapid-fire brand of observational humor, but because...

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Chris Rock will star as a struggling comedian in ‘Finally Famous’

Chris Rock will star as a struggling comedian in ‘Finally Famous’

By | March 1, 2013 at 5:15 pm | One comment

While Chris Rock has proven himself a competent actor, having mastered comedic and dramatic roles on screen – as well as on the Broadway stage – it seems that for his next gig, a movie titled Finally Famous, he won’t hurt himself stretching. The iconic comedian will...

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Report: Aisha Tyler set to host revamped version of Whose Line is it Anyway? (Confirmed)

Report: Aisha Tyler set to host revamped version of Whose Line is it Anyway? (Confirmed)

By | March 1, 2013 at 2:04 pm | 7 comments

Update: 4:40 pm ET -- Aisha Tyler has confirmed to Laughspin that Whose Line is it Anyway? will return to television and she will, indeed, be the host of the revamped show. The CW will premiere 10 episodes this summer with former castmembers Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie and Wayne...

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