SHECKYmagazine is not Dr. Phil!

Just got an email into Like We Care: I just found your magazine online through Yahoo and thought that I […]

Lickin' and Laughin'… Lickin' and Laughin' !

From a press release floating around on the WWW today: SavvyInsider Media Group, LLC, a startup media and entertainment company […]

Got Ink? Get a day job… or a series.

An article in the St. Petersburg Times explores the dual life of Tampa’s Ken Reed. None of this is factual, […]

New Content: French, Skene, Hecox!

For those of you who have been away from the computer because of the holidays (or injury, or general malaise, […]

T-Giving Eve at the New Wave

We crossed the Delaware last night to hang at the New Wave with a good chunk of the Philadelphia comedy […]

Syracuse Questions Tom Kenny

The Syracuse New Times, that city’s alterna-rag, grills Tom Kenny, who is white-hot with the release of the SpongeBob movie. […]

Two Men Doing A One-Man Show

Friend of SHECKYmagazine Steve Ochs alerted us to an item about “Harrington & Storm: Two Guys Doing a One-Man Show.” […]

Dan French Surfaces Yet Again!!

Dan French, whom we have not heard from since our trip to SoCal in August (and whom has not submitted […]

Traci Skene for president!?

SHECKYmagazine editor and co-founder Traci Skene‘s newest column is up! She I witnessed this frustration up close last Thanksgiving when […]

Seattle Comedy Competition Down To Five

The following came from Ron Reid: The top five comics were picked last night, November 21. Interestingly they all have […]

Freddie Prinze, in case you forgot…

From the Newark Star Ledger’s “Ricky Retro, a weekly pop history quiz,” comes this paragraph: After an appearance on “The […]

Doug Hecox: Writer of Wrongs!

SHECKYmagazine announces a new regular columnist, Doug Hecox. The D.C.-based comic and author (“Graze Expectations,” “Star Spangled Banter”) needed an […]

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Cosby's Fat Albert Hits Silver Screen

From the Washington Post comes this heads up about the Christmas Day release of a theatrical, live-action movie, Fat Albert: […]

Rickles: He's able to close now

The Seattle Times has a nice interview with Don Rickles, a compact and peppy chat with a nice compendium of […]

The Few, The Proud, The Humorous

Ya think ya know someone. A press release bouncing around the WWW heralds the return of James P. Connolly to […]

Verizon Problems! Light Blogging!

We’re having trouble with our local phone service… we suspect that the heavey rains last weekend may be the culprit, […]

Screech not being Screech

The Daily Orange, the student newspaper of Syracuse University, ran a post-mortem on an appearance by Dustin Diamond, familiar to […]

Tom Kenny–Ya Never Know…

Spongebob Squarepants freaks, click here for an article in advance of the release of the feature-length Spongebob movie: Tom Kenny, […]

Fancy That! An Awards Show That Disses Standup!

From the first paragraph of a comedy.co.uk article about the Britich Comedy Awards: How time flies. Just as the harsh […]

"The Gastro-Intestinal Wonder From Down Under"

What to make of this recent item in a publication that calls itself The Australian Times? LAS VEGAS– Stand up […]

Seattle Comedy Comp Semi-Finalists

Dan Anic, Los Angeles Simon King, Vancouver, B.C. Vic Lippucci, Vancouver B.C. Kevin Shea, San Francisco Joe Klocek, San Francisco […]

Seinfeld on Letterman tonight

According to the Minneapolis Star-Turbine, Seinfeld‘s on Letterman tonight. If he gets bumped, blame it on them. We urge all […]

Madigan: Ant, Heffron tracking down LCS $$$

Kathleen Madigan, talking to the Rocky Mountain News to promote her Comedy Works appearance, has little good to say about […]

Standup raises $25K in Charlotte

Attention all non-profit charitable foundations: Standup comedy shows are a natural for raising gobs of cash. When booked properly, a […]

Caroline's: One club, two stories, both great!

Nadine Heintz, writing for Inc. Magazine, tells the story of one of New York’s longest running comedy shows. Through three […]

Mendrinos on radio across the pond

SHECKYmagazine contributor Jim Mendrinos will be on BBC 4 this Friday, November 12th at 7:30 PM. The show is “The […]

Jamie Foxx spills guts on 60 Minutes Wednesday

We got a press release from CBS, breathlessly titled, ” JAMIE FOXX SAYS HIS BIOLOGICAL PARENTS ‘COPPED OUT’ ” Intrigued, […]

Cavett, Dana, Corey, Gregory, Berman, Sahl

On the drive up to Easton, PA, we speculated on the order. Who would close? Who would open? And where […]

Even Japan had a 1980's comedy boom!

Japan Times Online is following the soap opera revolving around Shinsuke Shimada, a wildly popular standup comic who has been […]

MN's Knuckleheads Gone

Two clubs gone in one week– neither one due to lack of business. Hmmm… This time, it’s Knuckleheads, the one […]

Hilarities condo destroyed by fire, club gone, too!

According to articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Akron Beacon-Journal, Hilarities in Cuyahoga Falls has been nearly destroyed […]

NYCUCF says, Thanks for '04, here comes '05

The following came over the transom, from George Sarris, Big Cheese at the New York City Underground Comedy Festival: The […]

Andy Kaufman Award Semi-Finals in NY Fest

An email from a semi-finalist: Hey folks…just an quick announcement: The semi-finals for the Andy Kaufman Award being given by […]

Ecstatic? Depressed? See a comedy show!

Jeff Rusnak of the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel found an interesting way to incorporate the recent elections into his (Entertainment) beat […]

NYC club seeks budding producers

Just spotted this advertisement online: New York Comedy Club, in Manhattan, is seeking people interested in producing shows at our […]

Canadian Comedy Awards Results

Our Canadian friends handed out some hardware at the Canadian Comedy Awards last weekend in London, Ontario. The winners, standup-wise: […]

Sinking further into irrelevance…

In a Reuters article about Saturday Night Live, The always fierce competition among comics to land a gig on NBC’s […]

Reminders, additions, etc.

If anyone in the NY/PHL area wants to buy tickets to “The Comedians” show this Friday, Nov. 5, (See Comedy […]

Rakugo Anyone? Comics as consumer advocates!

Asahi Shimbun, a Japanese newspaper, has an story about a curious program that uses comedy to educate consumers as to […]