By Dylan P. Gadino | July 28, 2012 at 12:21 pm | 28 comments
Can we stop? Seriously. Can we please stop dissecting every single word from the mouths of comedians? And while we're at it, can we stop filming and taping everything so that we can use it as evidence against comedians? I'm talking to you, unseasoned comedy club attendees and...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 18, 2012 at 1:39 pm | 2 comments
In an effort to further promote its brand, the Los Angeles based Laugh Factory will begin to stream content on PlayStation 3. Laugh Factory Live, as they're calling it, will debut Sept. 1 for free. Come December, however, gamers and comedy lovers will have to drop $3 a month to...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 13, 2012 at 11:17 am | 17 comments
In their News In Brief section, The Onion has taken on an incident at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, wherein Daniel Tosh addressed a heckler by saying -- hyperbolically -- that it would be funny if she was raped by five men right now. You see, the Tosh.0 comedian was doing...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 29, 2012 at 9:30 am | 3 comments
Compared to the average Miss USA (if there is such a thing) Rima Fakih has proved a colorful character since her crowning in 2010. The native of Lebanon appeared on the reality series WWE Tough Enough (where folks compete to become professional wrestlers); she's appeared in a...
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By Jake Kroeger | January 25, 2012 at 2:33 pm | 27 comments
If you've been following the TMZ-ish look into stand-up comedy recently, you'll know that comedians TJ Miller called out Dane Cook in a Twitter rant about his drop in set at the Hollywood Laugh Factory for being unnecessarily mean and grotesque on stage. Cook told Laughspin...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 19, 2012 at 9:39 pm | 108 comments
Dane Cook, the comedian many comedy fans love to hate, has once again come under fire. Last night, he popped in to his home club, the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles for a surprise set. And by some attendees' accounts, Cook's working out of new material didn't sit well.
In fact,...
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By Scott King | December 21, 2011 at 5:37 pm | 3 comments
Hundrerds of aspiring and working comedians, improvisors and actors lined up outside of the soon-to-be-opened Laugh Factory Chicago on Dec. 20 to audition for the revamped In Living Color-- a two-episode special run that Fox will premiere this spring. The smallscreen hopefuls...
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By Jake Kroeger | December 14, 2011 at 12:19 pm | 8 comments
If you're excited that In Living Color is coming back to Fox, just wait until you hear this. Did you wait? OK, maybe you didn't wait, but we'll just let you in on this: In Living Color is going to have open casting calls in Chicago.
On Dec. 20, the newly opened Laugh Factory...
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By Laughspin Staff | December 6, 2011 at 3:58 pm | No comments
You may remember comedian Brody Stevens’ apparent meltdown in August. He pretty much kept us abreast of his every move through his Twitter feed @AllThingsBrody. At the time, most people didn’t know what to make of it. Laughspin writer Jake Kroeger put it this way:
While his...
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