By Jodi Guglielmi | June 10, 2013 at 3:45 pm | No comments
In the world of musical comedy, few have reached the level of success achieved by Tenacious D. And now the ingenious hard rocking duo – Jack Black and Kyle Gass – have harnessed their powers to make good on their threat to curate their own festival.
The one-day...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | June 6, 2013 at 12:38 pm | No comments
Jerry Seinfeld’s highly successful Web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee is set to return on June 13 at noon ET, when the first episode featuring Sarah Silverman will go live on Crackle.com.
In its second season, we’ll find the iconic comedian and television star...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 23, 2013 at 1:29 pm | 8 comments
Remember that time in 1998 when Jerry Lewis told a crowd of 1,000 at the Aspen comedy festival about his disdain for female comedians and couldn't even bring himself to admit Lucille Ball was funny? Well, it seems the 87-year-old is committed to the cause. Today at a press...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 2, 2013 at 5:40 pm | No comments
On this week's Laughspin Podcast, Mike and I deliver news about a big change at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Chris Hardwick's new gig at Comedy Central, Futurama, Sarah Silverman and more. And we listen to a track from comedian Pete Holmes' new album Nice Try, The Devil, out...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 2, 2013 at 3:07 pm | 4 comments
In Sarah Silverman’s latest contribution to the JASH network on YouTube, we find the comedian embroiled in a torrid love affair with a suitor of a less advanced aged than her own. Filtered through the lens of French film noir – down to the English subtitles – it’s not...
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By Laughspin Staff | April 30, 2013 at 12:01 pm | One comment
It's been eight years since Sarah Silverman's stand-up comedy film Jesus is Magic (see below) was gifted to the world of comedy. Since that time, the celebrated comedian has kept busy in television -- three seasons of The Sarah Silverman Program on Comedy Central, Bob's Burgers,...
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By Laughspin Staff | March 25, 2013 at 4:20 pm | No comments
Sarah Silverman's first official contribution to JASH, the newly launched YouTube channel she shares with Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Reggie Watts and Michael Cera just dropped today. And while we're tickled by the joke presented therein -- and excited to see her work with...
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By Laughspin Staff | March 19, 2013 at 4:58 pm | No comments
Sarah Silverman will likely join the already-stellar cast of Seth MacFarlane’s newest comedy flick, A Million Ways, the Family Guy creator’s second live-action big screen project. His first, last year’s Ted, has grossed nearly $550 million worldwide.
A Western, A...
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By Carrie Andersen | March 11, 2013 at 11:09 am | 2 comments
AUSTIN -- The second day of shenanigans left many SXSW attendees (yours truly included) a little more bleary-eyed than we might have wanted to be – thanks, daylight saving – but good golly, the perks made it all worth the lack of sleep.
For those of you who are...
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