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Cool thing to buy this week: Andy Haynes "Greatest Hits"

Cool thing to buy this week: Andy Haynes “Greatest Hits”

There is a lot of stuff out there in the world vying for both your attention and your hard-earned dollars. The Laugh Button is here to help you make the right decisions when it comes to purchasing funny things. Here’ what’s cool to buy this week.

Andy Haynes – Greatest Hits

Purchase: iTunes | Amazon

Andy Haynesis slowly becoming a must-see comedian amongst comedy fans. Slowly building and growing…

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Cool Thing To Buy This Week: Myq Kaplan, "Small, Dork, and Handsome"

Cool Thing To Buy This Week: Myq Kaplan, “Small, Dork, and Handsome”

There is a lot of stuff out there in the world vying for both your attention and your hard-earned dollars. The Laugh Button is here to help you make the right decisions when it comes to purchasing funny things. Here’ what’s cool to buy this week.

Myq Kaplan – Small, Dork, and Handsome

Purchase: iTunes | Amazon

Myq Kaplanis a favorite around these parts, not only is he a hilarious comedian but a…

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Cool thing to buy this week: DL Hughley "Clear"

Cool thing to buy this week: DL Hughley “Clear”

There’s a lot of stuff out there in the world vying for both your attention and your hard-earned dollars. The Laugh Button is here to help you make the right decisions when it comes to buying funny things. Here’ what’s cool to buy this week.

DL Hughley Clear DL Hughley has always had the ability to tell jokes pretty much anyone can relate to, whether its the struggle for one’s career,…

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Mike Vecchione’s new stand-up album “Muscle Confusion” slated for April 22nd

Mike Vecchione’s new stand-up album “Muscle Confusion” slated for April 22nd

One of comedy’s funniest guys, Mike Vecchione is set to drop his new stand-up comedy album, Muscle Confusion and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Mike has been a staple of the NYC comedy scene for a while now, slowly and mythodically slaying comedy audiences with great jokes accented with a subdued delivery. You’ve seen Mike on The Peoples Choice Awards, The Last Comic Standing, and a Comedy…

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Cool thing to buy this week: Christian Finnegan, 'The Fun Part'

Cool thing to buy this week: Christian Finnegan, ‘The Fun Part’

We get it, it’s Tuesday, it’s raining outside, and you’re sitting here wondering if today is going to amount to anything. Well lucky you! Because one of the funniest comics out there has officially dropped his new comedy album today. Now we’re getting to the fun part.

Christian Finnegan’s latest special The Fun Partis now available everywhere and it is hilarious. We last saw Finnegan on CD with…

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Cool Thing To Buy This Week: Chris Porter "Ugly And Angry"

Cool Thing To Buy This Week: Chris Porter “Ugly And Angry”

Perhaps you’re having a Valentines Day hangover, maybe a little too much chocolate or maybe you’re trying to bounce back from a lonely and sad holiday, either way, now’s your chance. Ugly And Angry, a new special curtsy of Chris Porter has finally hit the digital shelves.

His new special which was recorded in his home town of Kansas City, Missouri, brings you his take on everything from drugs, to…

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Doug Stanhope | Beer Hall Putsch | New Wave Dynamics

By Nick A. Zaino III

Years ago at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Doug Stanhope appeared on a show called Confessing It. The lineup of comedians found laughs in everything from the mildly embarrassing to genuinely soul-searching. Then came Stanhope, who told a story about a former girlfriend using the morning-after pill. His graphic description walked a few in the room who ostensibly were there to hear people’s deep, dark secrets.

Stanhope’s secrets are usually a lot deeper and darker than most. And they are rarely secrets. He lives the kind of life that would have given Hunter S. Thompson a worthy muse for a series of books, and celebrates it all onstage. And, the important part sometimes forgotten by comics dealing with potentially shocking material: It’s funny. It may take a bit of a dark soul to appreciate it, but it is funny.

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