Damien Lemon joins Matt and Mark on the podcast this week. Lemon is the host of a new comedy game show, "Comedy Knockout" premiering on truTV. Since Lemon is now a game show host, we all take a deep dive into the history of game shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Matt and Mark discuss Mark's recent trip to the West Coast for the MTV Movie Awards (or the MTVMAs as Matt put it). We then welcome comedian Nick Turner onto the podcast to hang out and talk about pop culture, comedy and favorite television. It's a total nerd out over pop culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week, your intrepid hosts really get deep into discussing Mike Tyson's Punchout. Why? Your guess is as good as ours but we know it's important. Then comedian Alfred Robles joins us to discuss the second season of "Fluffy Breaks Even," which premieres on FUSE this week. Robles is opener for Gabriel Iglesias and a total road dog with Fluffy as the they work to figure out how to have a blast on the road yet yet not do too much damage to themselves in the process. Learn more about your ad choic...
This week we remember Garry Shandling and the legacy he left for comedy. We also attend a special screening for a scene from the new season of Silicon Valley. Our guest this week is comedian Jim Florentine, who stops by the Riotcast studios to talk about his upcoming one man show, "I'm Your Savior." A show about the ups and downs of the relationships he's had over the years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
There is so much happening this week in the comedy world. Including a comedian with cancer catching a break by one of comedy's giants, Joe Pera talks us all to sleep, and Fuse eyes its future. The guest on the podcast this week, comedian Cameron Esposito has new stand-up special, "Marriage Material" set to premiere this week on Seeso. We catch up with her when she was at with her show to talk about the special, her days starting out in Chicago, her need to make a move to jump ahead in comedy, an...
Matt and Mark stay up late for a podcast live from Austin to talk about the SXSW festival, then comedian Bob Perlow joins us to talk about his career as a warm up comedian which he just put down into his memoir. Perlow has plenty of stories from nearly 40 years of doing his thing. For advertising opportunities email: advertise@thelaughbutton.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week comedian Roy Wood Jr. catches up with Mark and Matt in his new home of NYC. Roy now lives in NYC because he's one of the newest (and current breakout) star of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. We talk about sports, show's role in pop culture, the current state of politics which Roy knows a few things about from working on a show like The Daily Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week we announce The Laugh Button Live! at SXSW 2016. It's going to be a rager! Get on down there, we also talk controversy when it comes to comedians and free speech. Also, Mark attends the press junket for Tina Fey's new film, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" and we speak with the movie's writer Robert Carlock and its directors, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. The movie hits theaters on March 4th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Comedian Dov Davidoff's had a long and storied comedy career. FUSE TV just aired his new stand-up special, "Lower Your Expectations." So in honor of the special, we welcome him onto the podcast to talk shop. Prepare to have your expectations exceeded. . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Matt returns to realize how much he was missed... turns out it wasn't a lot. Then, comedian T.J. Miller takes time out of his busy "Deadpool" promo schedule to hang with us and talk about his life, which is pretty good at the moment with Deadpool smashing Box Office records and Silicon Valley returning in just a few weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark has Bram from Metal Insider guest host for Matt, who is out sick. Which is unfortunate because Justin Theroux and Nicholas Stoller the writers of Zoolander 2 guest on the podcast to talk about the return of Derek Zoolander and Hansel in the long anticipated sequel to the cult classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark and Matt sit down with the cast of the new TruTV show, "Those Who Can't" a sitcom from the hilarious minds of The Grawlix, a comedy trio consisting of Andrew Orvedahl, Adam Cayton-Holland, and Ben Roy. Andrew, Adam, and their co-star Maria Thayer discuss the new and give us some behind-the-scenes details about the show. Fun times had by all! "Those Who Can't" premieres on TruTV on February 11th at 10:30pm ET. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark and Matt, two Gen Xers reminisce about the 90s. Possibly one of the weirdest yet awesomest decades to grow up in. Whatever! We recap the Patrice O'Neal benefit show in NYC, talk about joke stealing then, comedian Ian Edwards joins us in the Riotcast studios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the comedy news its all about the trailer this week. It's also all about contests and touring. The Goddamn Comedy Jam is a comedy/music show that's taking the nation by storm. In fact, it was just announced that it was going to Bonnaroo this year. Mark and Matt sat down with its creator and mastermind, comedian Josh Adam Meyers to discuss the show's origins and how it became to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the news Mark and Matt discuss revivals of comedy shows as Matt tries his best to find out what happened to ALF. Then David Cross joins Mark and Matt this week to discuss the return/new season of his show, "Todd Margaret" to IFC. Cross has a long comedy history and has starred in a handful of cult comedy shows like "Mr. Show with Bob & David" and "Arrested Development." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark and Matt welcome the one and only Wayne Federman to the podcast this week. Federman recently released his new comedy album, "The Chronicles of Federman," which is his first comedy album in the course of 30 years. We break down what someone could do in that length of time which leads into a discussion about time gaps for comedy careers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It's the final podcast of 2015 and we're ending with #50. We continue our look back at 2015 with the second part of our comedy roundtable discussing the biggest stories of the year with our comedy journalism friends Katla McGlynn (Splitsider, Vanity Fair), Jesse David Fox (Vulture) and Sean L. McCarthy (The Comic’s Comic). From Cosby to The Fat Jew, on part part 2 we discuss the biggest controversies of the year, the coming of age for podcasts, SNL 40, and we make some predictions for 2016. Lear...
The year is coming to an end, so we decided to take a look back at the biggest comedy stories of 2015. Mark and Matt invited their comedy journalism friends, Katla McGlynn (Splitsider, Vanity Fair), Jesse David Fox (Vulture) and Sean L. McCarthy (The Comic’s Comic) to have a roundtable discussion of the biggest comedy news stories in 2015. We covered so much comedy that it had to be broken up into two parts. In part #1 we discuss our favorite specials of the year, biggest hits, and biggest misse...
This week on the podcast Mark and Matt welcome the one and only Gilbert Gottfried, to talk about his career in comedy, and its a lengthy one. In the comedy news Mark and Matt discuss Howard Stern's new deal and the top albums of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week on the podcast, Mark is grumpy. It also features comedian Jermaine Fowler, who is here to talk about his first stand-up comedy special, "Give 'Em Hell Kid" which is about to premiere on Showtime. The crew discuss comedy influences, TV, and movies. It's a can't miss episode... oh and Mark is grumpy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Comedy legend Greg Proops joins us on The Laugh Button podcast to talk about his new comedy album, "In The Ballpark" which was just released. In the news we talk about radio feuds and old comedians getting old. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In celebration of Thanksgiving you get The Laugh Button podcast a day early this week. You also get the return of our Editor-in-Chief Matt Kleinschmidt, who is back with Mark for the news of the week as we ambitiously try to figure out the city of Hartford and Neftlix. The guest this week is comedian and host of That Metal Show, Don Jamieson who just released his new comedy album, "Terrorizing Telemarketers vol. 6" with his TMS co-host Jim Florentine. It's an action packed show for your long hol...
This week comedian Sean Donnelly joins us to talk about his new album "Manual Labor Face," his origins as a New York Comedian and how he'd do it differently, and some Saved By The Bell trivia, all before letting us know what it was like to ride the bench of the basketball team his dad coached. Intern Will and Metal Insider's Bram Teitelman join Mark for the news as Matt is picking out a bow-tie for his wedding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hasan Minhaj, is a comedian and correspondent on The Daily Show. He's currently performing his one man show, "Homecoming King" in New York City. Hasan drops by the podcast to talk about performing this show. He also shares what its like participating on the political comedy process on The Daily Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mark returns to The Laugh Button podcast this week after Matt was pretty sure he died somewhere in Europe. With Mark comes all the comedy news of the week, and there's a lot. So much in fact that Mark and Matt dive right into it in order to cover it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week for the news Matt welcomes Bram Teitelman, Editor-in-Chief of our sister site, Metal Insider. Bram and Intern Will sit in on the news because Mark is not present... he might be on a mountain somewhere. We then interview Scott Gairdner and Tommy Blacha, the creative team behind the awesome Comedy Central animated series, "Moonbeam City," to talk about the show's creation and how it all came together. It's a jam packed episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...
This week we drop by The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and have a conversation with the show’s writers and panelists, Mike Yard, Holly Walker, and Ricky Velez. We talk comedy, politics, religion, and race. Also in the news Chris Rock is hosting the Oscars and Mark and Matt get to the bottom of the accusations that Amy Schumer stole jokes from Patrice O'Neal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
We celebrate 90 years of Lenny Bruce, discuss the recent events at The Comedy Store, and the return of Tracy Morgan. Then Kelly Carlin, daughter of the one and only George Carlin visits us to talk about her new book, "A Carlin Home Companion" about growing up with a legendary father. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This week its all about the comedy at NY Comic Con and there is a lot. Including a panel from the cast of TruTV's "Impractical Jokers" Mark and Matt welcome one of those cast members, Sal Vulcano onto the podcast to talk about how the Jokers came to be and what they have in store for Comic Con and the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Comedy news explodes all over the place as we attended the sneak peeks to "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" and "Benders." If that wasn't enough Derek Waters, the creator and star of "Drunk History" joins us on the podcast to talk about the show and what its like to tell history while, ya know, drunk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
