By Laughspin Staff | March 1, 2012 at 5:02 pm | One comment
"Sensitive Man" is not just legendary musician Nick Lowe's new single; it's also one of the best ways to describe Marc Maron. So it makes perfect sense (or does it?) that Maron co-stars in Lowe's first video in 18 years. In it, the comedian attends a type of sensitive-man...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 29, 2012 at 4:55 pm | One comment
Marc Maron popped into G4's Attack of the Show last night to chat with the show's host Kevin Pereira. A lively and entertaining chat throughout, Maron addressed the pitfalls of hotel living (cake pop or masturbation?), how some fans of his podcast WTF have absolutely no...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 14, 2012 at 9:54 am | No comments
You may or may not have noticed that we here at Laughspin have been pushing the upcoming Gilda's Laughfest in Grand Rapids, Michigan pretty hard. I'm not about to try to convince you that we've been unbiased in our editorial coverage, our Tweets and our Facebook links; we're...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 6, 2012 at 8:09 am | One comment
Though it hasn't been officially announced yet, Laughspin can confirm that there will be no less than eight popular comedy podcasts represented at this year's comedy portion of Austin's South By Southwest arts festival, including WTF with Marc Maron, Doug Loves Movies with Doug...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 2, 2012 at 10:55 pm | 4 comments
A few years ago, the idea of launching a comedy podcast was considered an innovative one. Today, however, there are more than 16 billion comedy podcasts (that's an estimate). The point is, there's so many -- and so many quality comedy podcasts -- that it's not at all insane to...
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By Jake Kroeger | January 18, 2012 at 1:06 pm | One comment
After watching three episodes of Showtime's new behind-the-curtain series, Inside Comedy, any rational entertainment goer will conclude, whether you like the series or not, that documentarian Ken Burns doesn't need to do a series called Comedy. The show features in-depth...
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By Blake Wexler | January 18, 2012 at 11:15 am | 21 comments
photo by: Sharilyn Johnson
On Monday’s episode of WTF with Marc Maron, stand-up comedian Todd Glass did something very brave. However, despite the news of Todd’s coming out of the closet, nothing about Todd has really changed. Todd is the same guy we’ve grown to adore...
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By Laughspin Staff | January 16, 2012 at 3:24 pm | 62 comments
Well-respected veteran comedian Todd Glass announced he was gay on today’s episode of WTF with Marc Maron.
After a relatively short introduction, wherein Maron tells his listeners that Glass, 47, wanted to come on the show to say something important, the announcement was...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 5, 2012 at 11:19 pm | No comments
This coming Wednesday, Jan. 11, at the Improv in Hollywood, Marc Maron, Harland Williams and more will perform at a show to benefit the family of late comedian Angelo Bowers, who died early Tuesday morning after sustaining injuries from a car crash caused by a drunk driver. He...
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