The Laugh Button Podcast Round-Up | 12.23 – 12.29

John Hodgman While most of us were on the road heading home for the holidays, the comedians behind your favorite podcasts were still hard at work giving us the gift of laughs.

Correspondingly Adam Carolla sat down with Seth MacFarlane to find out what the man behind Stewie is all about while Tom Scharpling hosted the holiday party of a lifetime alongside John Hodgman, Ted Leo, and David Rees.

But that’s not all, we also saw appearances from comedians such as David Alan Grier, Mike Birbiglia, and Doug Benson as well as visionaries such as Ira Glass and Bryan Cranston. In other words weather your sense of humor is ultra low-brow or hyper intellectual, we’re sure you can find something to enjoy on this week’s Podcast Round-Up. Read More

Watch The Red Band Tailer For Broken Lizard’s New Movie, “The Babymakers”

Broken Lizard are back with another film. It’s been a while since the comedy troupe released a film, even though they always seem to have something in production you’ll have to go back to 2009 for their last flick, The Slammin’ Salmon now we have ourselves The Babymakers.

The flick stars Paul Schneider (Parks And Recreation) in the lead role who is trying to have a child with his wife, played by Olivia Munn (The Daily Show). When you think of couples with fertility issues you may head down the role of a romantic comedy, but leave it up to the Broken Lizard guys to turn the whole thing into a heist film about stealing sperm. Read More

Eight Lists Of Hanukkah: 8 Places To Take Your Jewish Girlfriend On A Date

Welcome to the Eight Lists Of Hanukkah. Each night of the holiday, comedian Jon Fisch will post a list of things he knows to be true about the being Jewish this time of year.

8 Places to Take Your Jewish Girlfriend on a Date

The 2nd Avenue Deli
Tiffany’s
The Shvitz
The Matzoh Ball
The Tenement Museum
To meet your Bubbi
The JCC
The Menorah Lighting Near Central Park

Jon Fisch is host of the widely popular podcast: In the Tank. He’s appeared on Last Comic Standing and featured in Maxim Magazine. You can follow Jon on Twitter @jonnyfisch

This Week In Comedy: You’ve Been 2011′d

A serious phobia of snowmen could present a problem this time of year [Videogum]
For people who are worried by constant parent status updates [STFU, Parents]
Introducing the Scumbag Santa meme [Slacktory]
Ranked, every cast member of Saturday Night Live ranked from worst to best [Nerve]
The eight greatest [adult swim] Hanukkah clips [adult swim]
The 50 funniest auto-correct fails of 2011 [Complex]
The funniest TV episodes of 2011 [Warming Glow]

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Eight Lists Of Hanukkah: 8 Movies To Watch On Hanukkah

Welcome to the Eight Lists Of Hanukkah. Each night of the holiday, comedian Jon Fisch will post a list of things he knows to be true about the being Jewish this time of year.

There are plenty of Christmas specials on the tube, but where are the flicks for the Chosen people? Here is a list to get your netlix queue set up Jew style for 8 nights…

8 Movies to Watch on Hanukkah

The Ten Commandments
Schindler’s List
Shoah
Annie Hall
Exodus
Munich
Fiddler On The Roof
It’s a Wonderful Life (who doesn’t like that?)

Jon Fisch is host of the widely popular podcast: In the Tank. He’s appeared on Last Comic Standing and featured in Maxim Magazine. You can follow Jon on Twitter @jonnyfisch

Felipe Esparza’s First Stand-up Special Premieres On Showtime This Week

Felipe Esparza, the most recent winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, will have his first ever stand-up special premiere this week.

Esparza’s special, They‘re Not Gonna Laugh at You will air on Showtime, December 28th at 10pm ET. Esparza explained the idea behind the special’s title by saying, “One time, before the show I made a mistake and told my mother that I was nervous to which she replied: ‘Don’t worry, nobody is going to laugh at you, relax.’”

The special will also be released on DVD, February 28th. Read More

Eight Lists Of Hanukkah: 8 Lesser-Known Jewish Activities For Christmas Day

Welcome to the Eight Lists Of Hanukkah. Each night of the holiday, comedian Jon Fisch will post a list of things he knows to be true about the being Jewish this time of year.

We all know Jews love to go to movies and eat Chinese food on Christmas but here are some lesser known Christmas day rituals for Jews…

8 Lesser-known Jewish activities for Christmas Day

Count all the money we didn’t spend on Christmas gifts
Pray to our G-d: Adam Sandler
Drive around and look at the funny displays on the Gentile’s front yards
Get our taxes done early
Remind Jewish kids that Santa doesn’t exist and even though Christmas sounds cool now, you’ll make it up on the back end when your parents’ pay for college and help you pay rent until your 30
Explain to all of our Gentile neighbors that Chanukah is not today
Go camping (just kidding, Jews don’t camp.)
Thank Gentiles for giving us a free day to nothing but ski, go to movies and eat Chinese food!

Jon Fisch is host of the widely popular podcast: In the Tank. He’s appeared on Last Comic Standing and featured in Maxim Magazine. You can follow Jon on Twitter @jonnyfisch

Watch Giulia Rozzi Lay Down A Lexus Holiday Commercial Parody

It’s Christmas time and we’re bombarded with ads for the holiday season. Perhaps the most irksome ones are those that somehow assume people have enough money floating around that they are willing to purchase a loved one a car. “Honey I love you, I’m going to play you a little jingle and give you a new Lexus.”

Well comedian Giulia Rozzi gathered some of her friends and decided to make a video send-up of said video parodies.

Giulia and Margot Leitman will be performing their show, Stripped Stories Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre next week on Dec 29, 930pm. $5 tickets can be reserved here.