By Dylan P. Gadino | December 6, 2012 at 12:48 pm | 54 comments
It’s that time of the year again where we present to you, dear Laughspinners, the 10 best comedy albums of the year. I say this every year, but it’s true: Since launching in 2005 and since there were well over 100 comedy albums released in 2012, this has been the most...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | June 22, 2012 at 10:06 am | One comment
Laughspin can confirm that comedian Tom Papa has been cast in Steven Soderbergh's upcoming Liberace biopic Behind The Candelabra, alongside Matt Damon, Michael Douglas and Dan Aykroyd. Papa will play Liberace's manager and producer Ray Arnett; Douglas had been already cast as...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | March 20, 2012 at 9:48 pm | No comments
It was reported three days ago that Tom Papa had inked a deal with TBS to shoot a show pilot titled Naked Truth. The former host of NBC's The Marriage Ref will facilitate conversations between himself and three other comedians, Deadline reported. But we can exclusively reveal...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | January 6, 2012 at 5:54 pm | 4 comments
It’s been six years since the comedy world has had access to a new, proper Tom Papa album. And even then, although it was excellent, his album Calm, Cool & Collected was only 35 minutes! Boo! Also, hiss.
Luckily, it’s not like Papa has been gone from our sights; far from...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | November 22, 2011 at 11:30 am | One comment
Thanksgiving is only two days away, comedy fans. And SiriusXM has got your covered. Starting on Thursday at 1 pm ET on Raw Dog Comedy, channel 99 (my favorite comedy channel on SiriusXM), comedian Pete Dominick will host the Raw Dog Thanksgiving Special. You'll hear him chat...
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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 Fred Farris | July 29, 2011 at 5:46 pm | No comments
Originally a four-week special on Sirius XM Radio's Raw Dog Comedy channel, Come To Papa adopts the channel for a weekly program tipping off July 29 at 6 pm EST. During its limited run, host and comedian Tom Papa interviewed the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn, Nick...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 17, 2011 at 6:37 pm | 2 comments
As iconic as he is, Jerry Seinfeld did not have an official presence online until he launched his site JerrySeinfeld.com on May 6. Well, before this past weekend even started, Jerry made another technological leap to the delight of his many fans: he joined Twitter.
As of this...
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By Carrie Andersen | May 6, 2011 at 3:49 pm | No comments
As if Jerry Seinfeld weren’t ubiquitous enough in the comedy world, it seems that this week, he’s dipping his toe in a whole plethora of new media platforms. Today, his new website and comedy archive JerrySeinfeld.com launched. And, on top of that, SiriusXM announced that...
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