By Laughspin Staff | April 16, 2012 at 4:31 pm | No comments
Starting tomorrow, comedy and podcast fans will be able to pre-order the WTF with Marc Maron box set, filled with more than 100 hours of interviews and archived video from the comedian’s live podcast tapings. The collection will be released on April 24.
The limited edition...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | September 22, 2011 at 10:02 am | No comments
Having followed the progress of Marc Maron's career since 2005 (when Laughspin was Punchline Magazine) -- in the form of interviews, album reviews, news stories (I even co-produced his one-man show Scorching the Earth in 2009 and was honored to write the liner notes for his...
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By Emma Kat Richardson | July 29, 2011 at 7:51 am | No comments
MONTREAL -- There has long been the acknowledgement of a fine line that exists between the realms of laughter and pain. It’s a concept perhaps even older than fully evolved vocal chords – since the dawn of humanity, there’s been an instinctual understanding that what we...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 27, 2011 at 12:17 pm | No comments
While he was in New York City to record a live version of his podcast WTF in Brooklyn, Marc Maron visited Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He was there to not only promote the podcast but also his upcoming album This Has To Be Funny, which drops Aug. 9 on Comedy Central Records....
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By Dylan P. Gadino | July 18, 2011 at 10:12 am | No comments
In the unlikely scenario you needed more reason to love Marc Maron, allow me to submit this video of the man's appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher from Friday. The host of super-popular podcast WTF was joined by syndicated sex columnist and author Dan Savage, Dallas...
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By Punchline Magazine | June 13, 2011 at 4:14 pm | 3 comments
If you heard the newly-posted episode of WTF with Marc Maron, you already know the comedian struck a deal to shoot a WTF-centered television pilot. The filming went down last week at his home and around his neighborhood. Television comedy icon Ed Asner plays Maron's father;...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 18, 2011 at 4:22 pm | 8 comments
Last night, public radio's comedy nerd king Jesse Thorn, host and producer of popular shows The Sound of Young America and Jordan, Jesse, Go!, announced that podcast WTF with Marc Maron will get the public radio treatment.
We've taken the hundreds of episodes of the WTF podcast...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | May 3, 2011 at 9:24 am | 3 comments
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The ways in which comedy nerds can show their appreciation for the artists they love are a bit limited. Obviously, you can show up to your fave comedians' live...
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By Jake Kroeger | April 21, 2011 at 3:05 pm | No comments
Due to the recent surge in popularity, It was only a matter of time, but now it's official: the comedy podcast has gone postmodern.
Yesterday, via the Plop List, a wonderful hub of everything related to comedy podcasts, the arrival of Succotash- The Comedy Podcast Podcast was...
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