By Samantha Simon | May 23, 2012 at 10:41 am | No comments
The Webby Awards -- honoring the best online content -- broadcasted live from New York City on Monday, and if you're a comedy fan who doesn't have a god-awful Internet connection that is constantly booting you off instant messenger and only allows you to download PDFs at a...
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By Laughspin Staff | May 21, 2012 at 10:15 am | No comments
The 16th Annual Webby Awards, created to honor online achievement, will be broadcast live in HD at thewebbyawards.com today at 5:30 pm EST (tune in at 4:30 pm EST if you want to check out the red carpet). The whole shebang will be hosted by Patton Oswalt, but other comedian...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 18, 2012 at 12:32 pm | 4 comments
Even a casual listener of Marc Maron's podcast WTF knows about his rocky relationship with comedian Louis C.K. Back in October of 2010, however, C.K. sat down with Maron for a two-part WTF interview and in the end they seemed to have worked things out. After all, "We were best...
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By Lucas Gardner | May 14, 2012 at 3:55 pm | No comments
Louis C.K. Returned to Reddit today for another AMA (ask me anything) session. Taking questions from the Reddit community, the comedian discussed his recent successes, some hopes for the future and all kinds of fun personal details. Here are some things we learned.
You should...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 11, 2012 at 11:20 am | 7 comments
UPDATE 1:35 pm EST: The album is available now! The cost is $5. Go here: LouisCK.com. Here's what Louis has to say about the album:
This is about an hour long and it's a recording of a live standup show that I did at Carnegie Hall in November of 2010 as part of a national tour...
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By Laughspin Staff | May 10, 2012 at 2:19 pm | 2 comments
At this point in his career, Louis C.K.'s 2001 cult comedy Pootie Tang is simply a representation of the now hugely successful comedian's struggling early days in showbusiness. A year ago this month, C.K. sat down with his good friend, comedian Jim Norton on the Opie and Anthony...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 9, 2012 at 3:21 pm | No comments
There are two lessons we can learn from Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari and Jim Gaffigan-- the trio of comedians who successfully self-released their own new comedy specials. The first lesson is that it works, IF -- and it's a big "if" -- you have a large enough fanbase. The second...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 8, 2012 at 6:24 pm | 2 comments
We already knew that Louis C.K.'s self-released comedy special Live at the Beacon Theater would air on FX in the future. What we didn't know was when. Today FX announced that the wildly successful up-until-now digital-only special will air this Saturday at 10 pm EST.
So, what...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 29, 2012 at 12:40 am | No comments
Much like the last few years in the world of comedy, Comedy Central's second annual Comedy Awards belonged to Louis C.K., as he snagged four of the five awards for which he was nominated. By the end of the night, he took to the stage to accept awards for best stand-up special...
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