By Laughspin Staff | May 1, 2013 at 1:26 pm | 8 comments
On a recent tour stop in Australia, comedian Margaret Cho told her audience about her experiences working with John Travolta on the 1997 movie Face/Off. While Cho was never disparaging toward the actor during her bit, she did reveal her thoughts on the ongoing rumors about his...
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By Laughspin Staff | April 11, 2013 at 1:06 pm | No comments
In her latest installment of In Bed with Joan, comedian Joan Rivers' new Web series, Margaret Cho opens up about her very open relationship with her husband, dating Quentin Tarantino, why Cho isn't a nurse-- and also comedy! They talk about comedy. And Cho shows off her tattoos....
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By Laughspin Staff | February 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm | One comment
Comedians Andy Dick and D.L. Hughley will compete on the sixteenth season of ABC's hit show Dancing with the Stars this year, it was announced on Good Morning America today. But what people might not know is that Dick actually turned down an offer to be on the show during its...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 10, 2013 at 7:49 pm | 2 comments
Although the main ceremony for the 55th annual Grammy Awards hasn't begun yet, we can tell you that Jimmy Fallon has snagged the award for Best Comedy Album for his work on Blow Your Pants Off, a set of funny songs featuring the likes of Eddie Vedder, Paul McCartney, Bruce...
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By Laughspin Staff | February 8, 2013 at 11:35 am | No comments
This Sunday, the Recording Academy will honor the best comedy album of 2012 by bestowing upon one of six artists a Grammy. Now, we’ve already established the Academy really doesn’t know shit about comedy so we thought it would be more valuable to ask you, dear Laughspinners...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | December 10, 2012 at 10:47 am | One comment
For the fifth year in a row, the Recording Academy lazily pushed Kathy Griffin onto the list of nominees for Best Comedy Album, despite the fact that -- once again -- her "album" is nothing more than the completely censored audio ripped from her latest Bravo special. This time,...
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By Laughspin Staff | September 24, 2012 at 10:56 am | 2 comments
Did you know there’s a huge presidential election going down in November? You did? Well, aren’t you just the little news junkie. How about this: Did you know tomorrow is the first ever National Voter Registration Day? You did not. Stop lying.
In honor of this special day,...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | September 5, 2012 at 3:45 pm | 17 comments
Thanks to Nerve.com, we here at Laughspin need not rate our favorite female comics by based on their "sexiness." Although we've thought about it, it's just not in line with what we do, which is to attempt to cover the world of comedy from a journalistic point of view with an...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 3, 2012 at 6:02 pm | 9 comments
To all the 30 Rock fans who are wondering, when, in all that his holy, will Margaret Cho reprise her role as North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, wonder no more. Cho will be back on the fan favorite NBC show on May 10, as well as May 17.
If you’re not exactly up to speed on...
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