A wide range of emotions at SHECKYmagazine.com

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on March 31st, 2005

We’re saddened by today’s news here at SHECKYmagazine. We had always thought highly of Mitch Hedberg and we worried about him when we heard the occaasional rumor. But we always hoped that he would be safe. We interviewed him for our December 1999 issue– only our ninth issue ever. And we kept his interview up pretty much ever since then, since there always seemed to be such a high level of interest in it among those who were ‘net-savvy (which, back then, was a relatively small portion of the population).

Along with the news of Mitch’s passing, we got a Google alert that today was Shecky Greene‘s birthday. We were so distracted all day that it wasn’t until we set out to write this post that we realized that was dead wrong– Greene was, by all accounts, born on April 8, 1926. We’ll be in the mood to celebrate next week.

We’ll try to celebrate tomorrow’s two big events– 1) The sixth anniversary of the upload of the very first issue of SHECKYmagazine.com! It was six years ago midnight tonight that we uploaded the files that contained an interview with Bob Zany, a Question 21 with Jim “Klaus” Myers and other comedy-related pieces. 2) USA Today is running a half-page article, “The 10 Greatest Places to See Standup Comedy in America.” We were contacted Monday by a USA Today reporter and asked to assemble the list, which we did after much deliberation and consultation with others.

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