The Laugh Button Podcast

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.

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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.

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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 holiday weekend.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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