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More News of New Zealand
Ya gotta love the names of some of the acts at this year’s NZICF: Danny Bhoy, Michele A’Court, Cal Wilson, […]
The New Zealand Int'l Comedy Festival
New Zealand Herald writer Scott Kara turned in a whopping article on the NZICF, going on now through May 21. […]
Readers Digest Joke-Telling Contest on XM
At 9 PM EDT, on Friday, on XM channel 151, they’ll be sat-casting The Readers Digest Joke-Telling Contest. Wholesome family […]
Bob Saget interviewed by Newsweek
Nicki Gostin interviews Bob Saget and it’s available via msnbc.com: What do you find funny? For me it’s very funny […]
Amazing Johnathan moves from Riv to Sahara
Sure, it’s a two-week-old story, but we stumbled across this item in the April 15 Norm! column (he’s the guy […]
Headed to Canada? Bring a photo ID.
If anybody is heading to Calgary (whose FunnyFest starts tomorrow) or Montreal or Winnipeg for their comedy festivals, and you’re […]
Seinfeld re-explained
If an alien were to drop down on the planet and he wanted an explanation of the television show called […]
Tonight moving eastward?
From the Associated Press: Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to get a promise from Conan O’Brien on Tuesday to bring the […]
Lopez gets wife's kidney
From AP: George Lopez has undergone a kidney transplant with an organ donated by his wife. George and Ann Lopez […]
Diller resting comfortably after surgery
From NBC 4 in Los Angeles: Phyllis Diller was recuperating at a local hospital Monday after undergoing surgery over the […]
East Coast/West Coast– Comedy wars next?
They’re still out there, the HellGigAmerica boys. And they’re continuing to faithfully post updates (hit “Road Updates”) on their HellBlog. […]
New advertiser: Just For Laughs Fest Tour Pkgs!
Click on the banner at the top of this page and you’ll be taken to the Just For Laughs Festival’s […]
Dave Letterman? Is that you?
Somebody bought Johnny’s old microphone. An anonymous bidder Friday snatched a piece of TV history, offering $50,787 for the microphone […]
Phyllis Diller in the hospital!
Phyllis Diller is in the hospital. She’s 87. She’s in the hospital. And, by God, if we knew which one, […]
SHECKYmagazine.com back up!
We were down for about an hour. Seems we exceeded our bandwidth. We can think of worse problems to have. […]
Ron White attends Penn State
The Drunk in Public tour is in Happy Valley.Ron White sat down with the Centre Daily Times for an interview: […]
Dave Attell and Sean Rouse: 4 down, 31 to go
According to the Palm Beach New Times article: Fortunately for his fans, though, the Fort Lauderdale date will be the […]
George Wallace's tales of four-walling
We know it’s an old article, but it’s fascinating nonetheless. It’s a Las Vegas Weekly piece, that we spotted when […]
He's working for Mother Teresa now!
Just got an unusual email from Nick Debrey, a comic whom we had the pleasure of working with at last […]
Comedy Rape?!?!
We just stumbled across this, after receiving an email that’s making the rounds: Important News To All Our Fellow Comedians […]
Midlife crises with no sports cars or trophy wives!
Comedian Buzz Nutley has produced a comedy tour. He has recruited Jimmy Brogan, Cathy Ladman and Brad Upton to accompany […]
Zucker grasps at straws, urges Williams to blog
According to a Reuters report, NBC President Jeff Zucker said “entering the generally opinionated world of blogs might be one […]
What would James Wolcott say?
One line jumped out at us from the Borgata press release announcing their teaming with Electric Factory Concerts and their […]
Bipolar comic takes his message to the masses
A Cox News Service story on comedian Paul Zass and his bipolarity manages to avoid cliche and maudlin sentimentality: …People […]
Updated Comics' Websites/Comedy Club lists
We had nearly 1,000 emails in our inbox. Never a good thing. Among those emails were numerous requests from comics […]
Dick's side of Edmonton story
The followup to the Edmonton Journal story clears up a few matters. Dick says he’s not surprised some people hated […]
Santa Cruz broadcast/podcast features comics
Every Thursday, 5 to 6 PM PT, on KZSC 88.1 FM in Santa Cruz (and streaming live at www.kzsc.org and […]
TBS special will challenge viewers to stay awake
The Washington Times is reporting that Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, Will Ferrell, Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Ray Romano will […]
SHECKYmagazine in So. Jersey's largest paper
We just got written up in the Courier-Post, the Gannett publication that rightfully calls itself “South Jersey’s Largest Newspaper.” A […]
SHECKYmagazine down for hours…IRS?
We were down for a few hours last night, starting just after 9PM EDT…We figure it was all those people […]
New York City Underground Fest is back
According to the press release, this year’s version will take place October 3-9, 2005. Back again, in its 3rd year, […]
HBO's Fest website/A reader has a list of fests!
Just got an email from friend of SHECKYmagazine.com Larry-bob telling us of the existence of HBO’s website touting their recently-announced […]
Vanity Fair piece disappoints…
…but for all the unexpected reasons! We were ready to hate it. Instead, it’s just… dull and stupid. As we […]
Bad week for Brad Trackman
It’s been a bad week for Brad Trackman. First, some guy shows up at a comedy club, heckling the comics […]
"Jobs for Comics" deceased?
It would appear that the website, Jobs for Comics, has expired. We tried hitting the bookmark and got the ol’ […]
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HBO…Vegas…November…consumers!
Georg Szalai, writing in the Hollywood Reporter: Industry talk about a possible second comedy festival organized by HBO has been […]
Daddy Heckler, The Mystery, Pt. 2 !
We just got an email today from Brad Trackman regarding the recent bizarre incident at Rascals this past weekend: Hi […]
Who reads Vanity Fair, anyway?
We’ve heard from two different sources that James Wolcott has condescended long enough to write about standup comedy. We were […]
Bonnie McFarlane HBO Tix CORRECTIONS!
Our own Bonnie McFarlane is taping her HBO special at the Skirball Center for Performing Arts. Readers of SHECKYmagazine.com know […]
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