By Dylan P. Gadino | November 21, 2011 at 10:41 am | No comments
In the unlikely event you're not properly excited for the second season of IFC's Portlandia, which goes down Jan. 6, let us submit this delicious piece of information. The show's stars, writers and co-creators Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are hitting the road for a string...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 9, 2011 at 10:12 am | No comments
Coming off the heels of a strong Charlie Day-hosted episode last weekend, Saturday Night Live returns this week with host Emma Stone (yay!) and musical guest Coldplay (Boo! And not the Halloween kind). In these just-released promos for the show, Stone and Fred Armisen address us...
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By Laughspin Staff | November 8, 2011 at 3:51 pm | No comments
IFC's cult hit Portlandia is returning for its second season on Jan. 6. But before that, the complete first season will be available on a Blu-ray/DVD combo package; it drops Dec. 6. And we're just a tad excited about that. How excited? So excited that we're going to celebrate by...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 26, 2011 at 12:52 pm | No comments
Four days ago, Fred Armisen visited popular indie comedy and variety show Heart of Darkness, which goes down every month at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NY. We all know that Armisen, longtime Saturday Night Live cast member and star of his own IFC sketch show Portlandia, is musically...
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By Megan Gilbert | October 21, 2011 at 3:54 pm | One comment
If you showed up at the Bell House in Brooklyn last night for the live taping of writer and comedienne Julie Klausner’s How Was Your Week? podcast expecting Teddy Leo, cat photos, the JCPenney Facebook page, drunk Maya Angelou, the most hated man on Billy Eichner’s iPod...
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By Megan Gilbert | October 17, 2011 at 3:42 pm | No comments
Over the weekend at New York Comic Con, Portlandia star Fred Armisen shared with an audience of crazy-ass costumed geeks an exclusive clip from the upcoming second season. Meet the Sanitation Twins, and your new rainbow of recycling receptacles that will receive your discarded...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 16, 2011 at 6:54 pm | 8 comments
If you combined all the great sketches from the first four episodes of Saturday Night Live this season you would have yourself one damn funny episode of Saturday Night Live. Unfortunately, the gems have been spread over four weeks. And that, my friends, makes for a...
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By Billy Procida | September 15, 2011 at 5:21 pm | No comments
The brilliant minds behind It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (which debuts its new season tonight on FX) have a chance of creating another hit show for the network. Rob Rosell, Scott Marder and David Hornsby are working on a new animated series, tentatively titled called...
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By Erik Gavilanes | September 13, 2011 at 9:41 am | No comments
Parents of young children, listen up: Portlandia's Fred Armisen and Charlyne Yi (Knocked Up) are set to appear as guests on the season premiere of Nickelodeon’s hugely popular kids' show Yo Gabba Gabba! on Sunday, Sept.18. The pair will join the likes of former guests Jack...
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