By Jodi Guglielmi | June 9, 2013 at 12:18 pm | 2 comments
There's nothing like a great one line joke. Just like it takes planning and smarts to deliver an amazingly funny longform story, it takes special talent to write and deliver a short joke that will stick with an audience. Below, we've chosen 10 of our favorites one-to-few-line...
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By Laughspin Staff | May 31, 2013 at 12:13 pm | No comments
Last night some of the world’s best known Boston-native performers – including comedians Dane Cook and Steven Wright – came together at the TD Garden in Beantown to raise money for The One Fund in honor of the victims of last month’s bombing at the Boston Marathon. Cook...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | June 22, 2012 at 2:53 pm | One comment
In her upcoming book What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me, whorebag Rielle Hunter talks about what it was like fucking man-whorebag and former presidential candidate John Edwards. Spoiler: they made a baby together while Edwards was still married to his dying...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 29, 2012 at 12:32 am | 2 comments
Although the official comedy lineup for the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival isn't expected to be made public until later on Thursday, we hear Steven Wright, Marc Maron, Brian Posehn, Judah Friedlander, Reggie Watts, Garfunkle & Oats, Rhys Darby, Amy Schumer and Aziz Ansari...
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By Jake Kroeger | January 25, 2012 at 12:29 pm | No comments
While the traditional formula of a two-hander still works to this day (one plays "straight," one plays crazy), a pair playing crazy in their own respective ways can be one of the most delightful things to watch. Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel, for example, hosting anything from...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm | 3 comments
It's finally happening, folks. We first heard Steve Carell and David Steinberg were working on a documentary about comedians way back in December of last year. Three months ago we found out that Showtime had picked up the project, called Laughing Stock, and that it would become...
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By Jake Kroeger | October 13, 2011 at 11:25 am | No comments
You might have not noticed Tuesday night, but Don Rickles, Steven Wright, Will Arnett, and Brent Weinbach all made appearances throughout the late night talk show circuit. What you might not have noticed is that within the programming of guests across networks that night lies a...
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By Jeffrey Gurian | October 11, 2011 at 11:54 am | 2 comments
Comedy Matters doesn’t only talk about comics. It talks about the people who make the comedy world what it is, a wonderful place to be! Chris Mazzilli, owner of Gotham Comedy Club, is a special kind of guy and a very charitable man. I don't think it's any accident that there...
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By Carrie Andersen | January 4, 2011 at 1:43 pm | No comments
It's time for comedy and traditional art fans to unite!
Gallery1988’s latest group show, the comedy-centric “Is This Thing On?” opens Friday in Los Angeles. Here's the deal: 100 artists have created pieces portraying some of the most recognizable and notorious comedians--...
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