By Dylan P. Gadino | May 13, 2013 at 12:42 pm | No comments
As is usually the case each year, NBC's new schedule contains the most new comedies of all the major networks, with only two – Parks and Recreation and Community – returning. And just like last year, despite the release of its new programming, Community is nowhere to be...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 10, 2013 at 11:05 am | One comment
UPDATE: May 10, 8:36 pm ET -- Community has been officially renewed! However, The New Normal will not return for a second season on NBC.
UPDATE: May 10, 5:55 pm ET -- Comedian John Mulaney's project did not get picked up, reports Deadline. The semi-autobiographical...
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By Laughspin Staff | April 19, 2013 at 4:25 pm | One comment
On the latest installment of her weekly Web series Ask Amy, wherein she answers questions from young people, Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler addressed the way in which we all currently consume images online and on television, especially now as it relates to the Boston...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 17, 2013 at 12:29 pm | One comment
On Thursday, master comedian, actor and frequent guest star/multi-episode arc player on celebrated television shows Patton Oswalt drops by a special one-hour Parks and Recreation. In one scene, Oswalt successfully filibusters a council meeting vote—and does so by pitching a...
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By Laughspin Staff | April 9, 2013 at 1:08 pm | One comment
On a new episode of IFC's animated series Out There, well-loved Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson and real-life's Nick Offerman plays Sharla's father, who has an affinity for killing, stuffing and mounting animals on the walls of his man cave. It's not a great leap from his...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 5, 2013 at 4:26 pm | No comments
If it wasn't for his type-cast-breaking role in the Oscar-nomiated Zero Dark Thirty last year, we'd be even more surprised by this bit of casting news than we already are. Chris Pratt, known by comedy fans as the lovable, in-love and goofy Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation, has...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 29, 2013 at 11:20 am | No comments
Beloved Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler has just inked a deal to write her very first book! Planned for a 2014 release, Harper Collins will publish a tome, described as an “illustrated, nonlinear diary full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional...
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By Laughspin Staff | December 12, 2012 at 11:25 am | No comments
Last night, the mighty Nick Offerman (aka Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation) visited Conan O’Brien to chat about his manliness, how he was featured in People’s sexiest men of the year issue and, of course, his mustache, which he says is a curse. “I shave it every day,”...
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By Laughspin Staff | November 8, 2012 at 1:45 pm | No comments
When Parks and Recreation traveled to Washington D.C. for their season premiere in July, senators Barbara Boxer, Olympia Snowe, and John McCain all made cameos. It was not only exciting for viewers to watch, but also for Amy Poehler's character Leslie Knope, who's a feminist...
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