By Laughspin Staff | November 10, 2011 at 12:13 pm | No comments
Earlier this week, Saturday Night Live alum Darrell Hammond appeared on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross to promote his new heart-wrenching memoir God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m Fucked: Misadventures In Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem. You can...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 9, 2011 at 10:12 am | No comments
Coming off the heels of a strong Charlie Day-hosted episode last weekend, Saturday Night Live returns this week with host Emma Stone (yay!) and musical guest Coldplay (Boo! And not the Halloween kind). In these just-released promos for the show, Stone and Fred Armisen address us...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 6, 2011 at 8:56 pm | 2 comments
A few weeks off-air seems to have done good for the crew at Saturday Night Live. Not since this season's premiere with host Alec Baldwin has the show delivered such a competent episode. Last night's effort found underdog Charlie Day -- co-star of FX's ensemble cult hit, It's...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 3, 2011 at 1:00 pm | 6 comments
If you didn’t know already, today’s episode of WTF finds Chris Rock as Marc Maron’s guest. While I highly recommend listening to the entire 80-minute show, I found the chat about Rock leaving Saturday Night Live to work on In Living Color (which only lasted a year for him)...
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By Dylan Gadino and Meagan Kate | November 2, 2011 at 2:22 pm | One comment
For the last few weeks, Colin Quinn’s twitter feed has mostly included offensive rants on his part, and re-tweets of his followers calling him a has-been or declaring their plan to unfollow him. But yesterday, Quinn seemed to really piss off a lot of people and made otherwise...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 2, 2011 at 11:00 am | No comments
After a few weeks off, Saturday Night Live returns this weekend with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Charlie Day hosting. To get you all revved up for what will hopefully be atypically stellar episode, here's a few promos starring Day and SNL's own and Day's Horrible...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 25, 2011 at 2:05 pm | 2 comments
Yesterday, we printed a few short excerpts from Saturday Night Live alum Darrell Hammond's upcoming book, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m Fucked: Misadventures In Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem (out Nov. 8). But today, we get an even deeper...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 24, 2011 at 2:51 pm | No comments
Way to go, dumb parents. Way to ban an ice cream flavor with a name that is only slightly sexually suggestive if you know the source from which the name originates-- and in this case it's a Saturday Night Live sketch featuring an actor your kids don't know performed in a year...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | October 24, 2011 at 10:41 am | One comment
Substance abuse is certainly, and sadly, not a rarity in the world of comedy. But it seems some of the stories Saturday Night Live alum Darrell Hammond tells in his upcoming memoir are surprising-- even by standards levied by jaded comedy enthusiasts. Copies of the book God, If...
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