By Zach Buckner | April 24, 2013 at 12:20 pm | No comments
Last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Stewart highlighted the flawed system that benefits the few, and leaves the rest of us majorly fucked. He did so by providing a brief tutorial on what's occurring in Congress in regards to insider trading and the banking system. So...
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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 Dylan P. Gadino | March 25, 2013 at 12:29 pm | One comment
Stephen Colbert will interview former president Bill Clinton on April 6, representing the first time Clinton has appeared on The Colbert Report. The interview will occur in front of 1,000 college and university students during the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative...
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By Laughspin Staff | March 25, 2013 at 11:34 am | One comment
Tina Fey recently dropped by Inside the Actors Studio to chat about being an actor. The highlight, however, is when the show’s wily host James Lipton began interviewing Fey as Sarah Palin about such matters as shooting wolves, beauty and fashion and gay marriage. Check out the...
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By Laughspin Staff | February 26, 2013 at 12:58 pm | No comments
We've already seen Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report support his big sister Elizabeth Colbert Busch for her bid to win a congressional seat in South Carolina. But now, he's making it count, as he hosted a fundraiser in that state recently. Here's what he had to...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 5, 2013 at 12:20 pm | 3 comments
In yet another move to further cement his position as the number one douchebag in the United States, Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher for something the comedian said on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno one month ago.
Playing off Trump’s then-recent announcement that he would...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | February 5, 2013 at 11:17 am | 7 comments
Thailand’s government is seriously pissed off about a Saturday Night Live sketch that mocks the country’s well-known sex tourism industry. In the fake commercial for popular language-learning software Rosetta Stone, we find Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam playing...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 22, 2013 at 10:37 am | No comments
Yesterday, President Barack Obama was sworn in for a second term in our nation's capital. And although there were plenty of distractions -- performances from Beyonce and Kelly Clarkson, to name a pair -- the thing Stephen Colbert was most distracted by was the fact that Obama...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 9, 2013 at 11:18 am | One comment
In the midst of ongoing discussion about possibly raising the debt ceiling, defending his choice for secretary of defense and monitoring a newly-formed committee to look into strengthening gun laws, President Barack Obama will take time from his busy schedule today to watch the...
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