By Dylan P. Gadino | April 24, 2013 at 11:28 am | No comments
As the Senior Latino Correspondent – or is it the Senior Immigration Correspondent? – Al Madrigal has been at the center of some of the sharpest, most satisfying field pieces on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for the past two years. It took little time for the San...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 22, 2013 at 12:59 pm | 4 comments
On the newest episode of the Laughspin Podcast, I had the pleasure of chatting with comedian Amy Schumer, who, as they say in the business, is on fire. Her Comedy Central hour-special Mostly Sex Stuff was the second-highest-rated on the network in five years. And her new show,...
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By Billy Procida | March 14, 2013 at 3:07 pm | 4 comments
Kevin Pollak has accomplished much in his more-than-40-years of performing. He's an accomplished dramatic actor with infamous roles in The Usual Suspects and A Few Good Men. He's a veteran stand-up comedian who thrived in the 80s and early 90s before his acting career took off....
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 30, 2013 at 11:56 am | 14 comments
What started as one comedian’s off-the-cuff vocal displeasure over the way a well-respected comedy institution runs its business evolved into a needlessly divisive, hostile online battle fought via Facebook updates and Tumblr posts.
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By Laughspin Staff | January 24, 2013 at 3:58 pm | No comments
Hugely successful and divisive comedy star Lena Dunham sat down with Alec Baldwin this week on his WNYC show Here’s The Thing. The far-ranging interview covered the genesis of Dunham’s hit HBO show Girls, her love and respect for Sex and the City, her family and so much...
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By Laughspin Staff | January 17, 2013 at 1:09 pm | No comments
This week, Dylan and Mike broadcast live. So that means while they're chatting about the new season of Arrested Development, the tiff between Howard Stern and Lena Dunham, an upcoming documentary about the late Robert Schimmel (and more!) they're responding to listeners in the...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 18, 2012 at 5:29 pm | 6 comments
With a library of 291 episodes, Guy MacPherson's What's So Funny, might be the best kept comedy podcast secret. Using the tagline "Probing the brains of the people who make the funny," the Canadian radio host has done such probing to the likes of Norm Macdonald, Marc Maron, Doug...
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By Chelsea Dallas Falato | September 11, 2012 at 11:50 am | 2 comments
Get ready to make space for more Earwolf podcast goodness on your iTunes subscriptions. In the past two years, Scott Auckerman (above) and the Earwolf community have been producing some of the best and most popular comedy podcasts available. And while your week may already be...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | August 7, 2012 at 11:14 pm | No comments
On the latest edition of the Laughspin Podcast, Mike and I chat about a great many things, including Jay Mohr's new podcast network, Comedy Central's Roast of Roseanne (airing this Sunday), the controversy surrounding comedian Jeff Ross' joke about the Aurora shooting and more....
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