By Dylan P. Gadino | May 9, 2013 at 2:38 pm | 3 comments
It turns out Amy Poehler is huge in Sweden. She and her brother Greg just sold a comedy series called Welcome to Sweden, which will air on TV4 in the Nordic nation. The show is part of the sibling’s newly launched production company Syskon, who’s mission is to develop...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 9, 2013 at 1:46 pm | No comments
Since leaving Saturday Night Live last summer after seven years, Andy Samberg has taken great advantage of his freedom, starring opposite Adam Sandler in That’s My Boy, creating new tunes with his longtime musical comedy group The Lonely Island and headlining the...
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By Zach Buckner | May 9, 2013 at 12:50 pm | No comments
Okay, CNN. You really have to get your shit together. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart addressed a harrowing and hilarious video released by CNN in which two reporters Nancy Grace and Ashleigh Banfield were corresponding from the same parking lot. How can you tell? Well, the cars...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 8, 2013 at 4:42 pm | One comment
In an effort presumably to squeeze out every last box office dollar during its opening weekend, Warner Bros. has decided The Hangover Part III will be released Thursday, May 23, one day before originally planned. Although the studio didn’t give an official reason for the move,...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 8, 2013 at 12:58 pm | No comments
In the weeks leading up to the May 26 season four release of Arrested Development on Netflix, Bluth’s Original Frozen Banana Stand – where so many memorable scenes of the cult fave took place -- will come to life, popping up in cities around the world, starting today in...
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By Laughspin Staff | May 8, 2013 at 11:46 am | One comment
Spoiler alert: The newest episode of Between Two Ferns isn’t so much a new episode of Between Two Ferns as it is a premiere for The Lonely Island’s new video—which is fucking hilarious. Sure, Zach Galifianakis welcomes actor James Franco as a guest to his show and is able...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 7, 2013 at 4:19 pm | No comments
This month marks the 15 anniversary of comedy legend Phil Hartman’s death. And while we’ll always remember the tragic circumstances surrounding his passing, it would be impossible to forget the nine years he spent on Saturday Night Live delivering one of the best Bill...
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By Josiah M. Hesse | May 7, 2013 at 12:16 pm | 4 comments
Whether it’s Austin, Seattle or Detroit, every non-coast comedy scene deals with the same conundrum: You build a community of talented standups, and just when things are looking good, the scene’s most prominent comics ditch their home-town for the sink-or-swim world of L.A....
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 6, 2013 at 10:40 am | No comments
Jim Gaffigan has added yet another hyphen to his already multi-hyphenate life. The comedian, actor of television, film and yes, even Broadway, will officially become an author, as his parenting-themed book Dad is Fat becomes available in stores and online May 7. To be clear,...
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