By Billy Procida | April 26, 2012 at 4:31 pm | No comments
Come on out to laugh for the EveryMan… well, at least if you're going to be in the Beverly Hills area this Sunday. The consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen is holding its annual 'Stand Up For Main Street' benefit. According to its website, "the Washington D.C.-based...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 20, 2012 at 9:54 am | 3 comments
In March, I had the great pleasure of attending the second Gilda's LaughFest in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 10-day event raises money for the city's chapter of Gilda's Club, which offers support for cancer patients and their families. Founded in honor of comedian Gilda Radner,...
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By Laughspin Staff | April 16, 2012 at 4:31 pm | No comments
Starting tomorrow, comedy and podcast fans will be able to pre-order the WTF with Marc Maron box set, filled with more than 100 hours of interviews and archived video from the comedian’s live podcast tapings. The collection will be released on April 24.
The limited edition...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 4, 2012 at 3:42 pm | No comments
You may have noticed a new animated video featured at the top of Funny Or Die today called Noah's Ark, which features the voices of comedians Marc Maron, Maria Bamford and Jonathan Katz. In it, we find Maron playing the over-worked, near-defeated Noah and Jonathan Katz as his...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 29, 2012 at 12:32 am | 2 comments
Although the official comedy lineup for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival isn't expected to be made public until later on Thursday, we hear Steven Wright, Marc Maron, Brian Posehn, Judah Friedlander, Reggie Watts, Garfunkle & Oats, Rhys Darby, Amy Schumer and Aziz Ansari...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 22, 2012 at 12:13 pm | 2 comments
Last week when I was in Grand Rapids taking in the second annual Gilda's Laughfest, I got a chance to catch up with Marc Maron-- in a way that seemed most natural: sitting on a clinically white sofa in front of a few cameras and surrounded by lighting rigs. We covered a lot of...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 17, 2012 at 10:39 am | 18 comments
UPDATE: March 20, 8:30 pm EST: IFC confirms at the network's up-front presentation in New York that Marc Maron's show -- tentatively titled Maron -- has been picked up as a full series. IFC's description of the show is below:
Marc Maron has been a comedian for 25 years. He’s...
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By Carrie Andersen | March 12, 2012 at 7:39 pm | No comments
AUSTIN -- Audiences entering Esther’s Follies on Day 2 of South By Southwest’s comedy series were greeted not with a closed curtain and dim lights, but with Marc Maron sitting in a large plush easychair onstage. “I don’t believe in fourth walls,” he said. That might...
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By Laughspin Staff | March 12, 2012 at 6:41 pm | One comment
Last week in a post about Marc Maron’s appearance on G4’s Attack of the Show, we teased his participation in famed documentarian Morgan Spurlock’s new series A Day in the Life, which is available through Hulu. Each Monday morning a new episode arrives, and today’s the...
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