The Laugh Button Podcast #97: The Kurt Braunohler experience
Mark and Matt welcome comedian Kurt Braunholer to the podcast. Kurt is about to release the double vinyl live album for Hot Tub, his long-running comedy show with co-host Kristen Schaal. We discuss his various projects, comedy, and just be delightfully weird with the man. Podcast #97 Show Notes– Patrice O’Neal breaks down Harrasment Day.– […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #114: Kevin Gootee is a comic watching comics
It all started at an open mic. Comedian Kevin Gootee was critiquing a comedian on stage and the idea struck him and the start of Comics Watching Comics was born. Think Last Comic Standing meets @midnight, Gootee recruits his comedian friends to talk about other’s stand-up. He sits down with Matt to break it all […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #115: Seth Olenick and the funny business of photography
Seth Olenick is a professional photographer who has spent the last 15 years or so photographing comedians. He recently finished a 7 year project to put together a coffee table book, “Funny Business” as he documented both established and up-and-coming comedians. Many of the latter who would later make it big time. Whether through chance […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #116: Tim Dillon is going to hell
We’re coming in hot this episode. If you want to ease into a podcast, this is not the right one for you. Bram and Matt start right off with the barbs as they welcome Olivia Timm onto the show to give the “Millennial Point of View” whatever that is. Then Tim Dillon sits down with […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #118: Anthony DeVito is having a moment
Comedian Anthony DeVito is having a moment. In about a month’s time he landed his first late night stand-up spot, earned a half hour on Comedy Central and got passed at one of New York’s most legendary comedy clubs. To say things are looking up for him are an understatement. But he started years before […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #121: Greg Stone makes friends
Matt and Bram go over all the big news of the week including comedy siblings and all the news about the upfronts including canceled shows, greenlit ones, and all in between. Then, comedian Greg Stone joins us on the podcast to talk about getting his start in comedy, which all started from Communism, Gallagher, why […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #123: And Jeff Simmermon is not lying
Jeff Simmermon is about to release his debut stand-up comedy album, And I Am Not Lying. It’s a culmination of many years working as a writer of stories, that have appeared on both The Moth and This American Life. Now he’s following a true passion of his and turning said funny stories into works of […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #125: Spoilers with Monroe Martin
Comedian Monroe Martin stops by The Riotcast studios to hang with Matt. The two talk about his career in comedy and the story of his childhood in the foster system. Then, the pop culture geeks in both of them gets exposed as they cover everything from comic books, the movies they’ve spawned, fashion, and of […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #103: Sarah Colonna brings out the rally monkey
Happy New Year to you all! Mark and Matt return after a few weeks off for the first podcast of 2017. Yay! We made it? After a recap of their lives they talk about what’s in store for the new year. Then they welcome comedian Sarah Colonna to the podcast. During a recent visit to […]
The Laugh Button Podcast #104: Carrie Keagan swears that everybody curses
Mark and Matt breakdown the trailer for I’m Dying Up Here. Showtime’s new series centered around stand-up comedy in 1970s Los Angeles after that we talk about the abundance of stand-up comedy coming to streaming platforms. Our guest Carrie Keagan then joins us to talk about her new book, Everybody Curses, I Swear. A book […]