By Dylan P. Gadino | February 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm | One comment
On the eve of Community’s fourth season premiere (tomorrow at 8 pm ET on NBC!), Joel McHale visited the Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, and revealed a great deal about Chevy Chase and the controversies surrounding his behavior on set of the cult hit— namely Chase’s use of...
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By Billy Procida | January 17, 2013 at 11:44 am | No comments
Stand-up comedy superstar Kevin Hart recently sat down with Sway Calloway (pictured above with Hart) for an edition of the new limited-run channel, Town Hall, on SiriusXM Radio. The two talked for an hour in front of a live audience who had the opportunity to learn a few things...
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By Laughspin Staff | January 7, 2013 at 1:38 pm | No comments
On today's episode of Alec Baldwin's podcast Here's The Thing, the 30 Rock star chats with This is 40 writer and director Judd Apatow about his wife, actress Leslie Mann's sex scenes -- "[My wife] was shooting a scene where she was making love with Jeff Goldblum and you just...
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By Laughspin Staff | October 9, 2012 at 4:16 pm | No comments
Due to some unfortunate circumstances surrounding her personal life, comedian Tig Notaro's profile has been on the rise the last few weeks. It's a blessing and a curse, of course. Well before she contracted pneumonia and an intestine-eating bacteria and before her mother died...
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By Laughspin Staff | September 25, 2012 at 1:10 pm | No comments
On a recent stop by WNYC's The Takeaway with host John Hockenberry, Saturday Night Live's head writer and host of the hugely popular Weekend Update segment, Seth Meyers dished on all things politically funny. In addition to looking back on the comedy treasure that was Sarah...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | August 14, 2012 at 2:32 pm | 2 comments
Radio Goliath Clear Channel has made a clear statement about comedy: they think it's bankable. And that's why they've just entered into the business of 24-hour comedy radio programming. In a deal announced this week, Clear Channel will now oversee the well-established upstart...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 1, 2012 at 4:19 pm | No comments
We've all heard the jokes about how everyone has a podcast now. And why shouldn't they? It's easy and fairly cheap. Launching a full-scale podcast network is a little bit more tricky. Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich launched Earwolf in 2010, Chris Hardwick has the ever-growing...
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By Samantha Simon | July 12, 2012 at 1:07 pm | No comments
Although Aziz Ansari is known for his high-baller-wannabe character, Tom Haverford on NBC's Parks and Recreation, he is and has been primarily a stand-up guy. Really. The 29-year-old has been doing stand-up for over 10 years, saying, "Stand-up is the backbone of everything I...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 2, 2012 at 12:07 pm | 10 comments
We mentioned last week that Gallagher would appear as the co-host on a local radio show in Ohio for a week. The week has passed and his duties are over. And, judging from this video from one of the broadcasts, a lot of things are over for the comedian, who has recently gone...
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