By Dylan P. Gadino | December 22, 2011 at 11:19 am | 9 comments
After 10 days on sale, Louis C.K.’s newest stand-up comedy special Live at the Beacon Theater has made $1 million. And Louis is not at all comfortable having that much money all at once. After 27 years in the business, he’s never been in this position— and so, he had to do...
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By Carrie Andersen | December 20, 2011 at 11:05 am | 3 comments
It’s no secret that I absolutely love everything Louis C.K. does. He could sit onstage and tell me why I suck for two hours and I’d still think he was brilliant. Hell, I even wrote a 30 page paper about Louie for a graduate school seminar last year. Long story short,...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | December 19, 2011 at 4:28 pm | One comment
The results are in for the first ever Laughspin Readers’ Choice Comedy Awards. Voting began Dec. 5 and ended this morning. We really wanted to thank you all for participating-- whether it was just voting or sharing the poll or both. We've listed all the nominees below and...
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By Laughspin Staff | December 16, 2011 at 5:47 pm | No comments
Ever since he self-released his newest stand-up special Live at the Beacon Theater last weekend, Louis C.K. has been all over the Internet and on television promoting the hell out of it. And for good reason. It's excellent (duh) and the way in which he distributed his wares --...
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By Laughspin Staff | December 15, 2011 at 1:03 pm | No comments
This morning, comedian Louis C.K. released his second statement in three days, this time to let his fans know about some new features connected to his new, self-distributed stand-up special Live at the Beacon Theater. He writes, in part, the following:
Theres a thing where you...
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By Laughspin Staff | December 15, 2011 at 10:39 am | 6 comments
To further promote his already wildly successful self-released new stand-up special Live at the Beacon Theater, Louis C.K. popped in to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night. If you're reading this here, you undoubtedly already know about the comedian's experiment in DIY...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | December 13, 2011 at 11:38 pm | 27 comments
In the last few days, especially in the world of comedy, there's been tons of buzz about Louis C.K.'s newest stand-up special Live at the Beacon Theater. There's arguably been equal amount of chatter about the way in which the veteran comedian distributed his newest project....
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By Laughspin Staff | December 13, 2011 at 2:59 pm | No comments
To help promote his newly-released comedy special, Live at the Beacon Theater (available only on louisck.com), Louis C.K. has been making stops at some important media outlets-- ABC's Nightline and NPR among them. This morning he appeared on the latter, on Terry Gross' Fresh...
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By Laughspin Staff | December 13, 2011 at 10:52 am | 2 comments
Last night, Nightline aired a pretty solid feature with Louis C.K. ABC's Bill Weir spent the day with the man recently, watching Louie at the Comedy Cellar in New York trying out new jokes, hanging out at his apartment and exploring his history in the world of comedy. You can...
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