By Dylan P. Gadino | March 13, 2013 at 11:55 am | 4 comments
Amy Poehler is coming to Comedy Central! Sort of.
The network announced today that popular Web series Broad City has been picked up to series and will debut 10 episodes in 2014. Poehler will executive produce the comedy, centered around Upright Citizens Brigade alums Abbi...
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By Carrie Andersen | March 13, 2013 at 11:07 am | 2 comments
AUSTIN -- Sweet fancy Moses, we’re halfway into SXSW! This whole week is a marathon of networking, alcohol and hearing the words “innovation” and “creative flow” so many times you’ll probably have an aneurysm, so think happy thoughts for those of us who continue...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 12, 2013 at 11:36 pm | 221 comments
Before tonight's episode of The Jeselnik Offensive aired, viewers were already outraged about a segment called "Shark Party," which Comedy Central uploaded to its official site as well as its YouTube channel yesterday. Pegged to the death of shark-attack victim Adam Strange, 46,...
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By Carrie Andersen | March 12, 2013 at 2:08 pm | 2 comments
AUSTIN -- As you may have heard, Austin’s motto is “Keep Austin Weird,” referring to the fun eccentricities of its most colorful people and places. But the same could have been said for one of the oddest performances I can remember seeing in the past three years of...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 12, 2013 at 1:14 pm | 2 comments
To say comedy -- especially stand-up comedy -- is a rough, mostly thankless business, would be a severe understatement. Any comedian, even the hugely popular ones, will tell you they've experienced many more embarrassing failures than they have had unmitigated successes. Great...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 12, 2013 at 12:39 pm | No comments
As he explained in an eloquently-written post on his official site today, comedian Patton Oswalt tonight is auctioning off a great deal of memorabilia he acquired during his nine years playing Spence on the massively successful CBS series King of Queens. He's doing so to raise...
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By Laughspin Staff | March 12, 2013 at 12:13 pm | No comments
We're pretty sure GE executives have been holed up in a dark room with nothing but their laptops, watching hours and hours of Adult Swim-- or, at least every episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Why do we think that? Well, we just watched a trio of videos, which are...
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By Carrie Andersen | March 11, 2013 at 11:09 am | 2 comments
AUSTIN -- The second day of shenanigans left many SXSW attendees (yours truly included) a little more bleary-eyed than we might have wanted to be – thanks, daylight saving – but good golly, the perks made it all worth the lack of sleep.
For those of you who are...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 11, 2013 at 10:15 am | 3 comments
The long-awaited IFC series based on comedian Marc Maron’s life will premiere on Friday, May 3 at 10 pm ET on IFC. The 10-episode first season of Maron will feature a massive list of guest stars including Mark Duplass, Dave Foley, Jeff Garlin, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ken Jeong,...
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