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SHECKYmagazine archive for August, 2005
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Comedy for a Buck in Buffalo
At least one club is pitching in to help the Hurrican Katrina victims. in an email that circulating around the […]
Dialup? It's for losers
Just kidding. The offices of SHECKYmagazine.com are finally DSL-enabled. For years, the folks who have had broadband have done their […]
A second Perrier Award?
The New York Times is the only American paper that cares a whit about Edinburgh, for better or for worse. […]
Atlanta Punchline August 2005
From left: George Lowe (Voice of Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost and Atlanta radio personality), Heath Hyche (of Blue Collar TV […]
Balto Sun gets onboard the comedy love train
Rob Hiaasen, writing in the Baltimore Sun, kicks out a top ten comedy albums of all time list in “From […]
Aristocrats, mathematics, ratios, etc.
FOS Sharilyn Johnson writes: Hey guys, Just wanted to pass this along to you– word of mouth seems to be […]
Shecky Greene has a website
Legendary standup comic and actor Shecky Greene has a website. The turning point of Shecky’s career came in 1953 after […]
Kevin James poised for eighth season
Dusty Saunders, writing in the Detroit News: Like (Ray) Romano, Jerry Seinfeld and other TV comedy stars, James came to […]
Hanging with Kid Dave Miller (Corrected)
Photo credit: Dan Zink “Let’s go flying,” Kid Dave says. He pauses, realizing he’d caught us off-guard, so he rephrased […]
Talk host bounces back…slowly
Tim Cuprisin, writing in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, says that former standup comic and, (briefly) former talk show host Michael Graham […]
Blood for oil!
A reader, Adam White, writes: Hi. I was reading about the blood drive at the Laugh Factory and it reminded […]
Mister Kelly's, a Chicago institution
For nice slice of comedy history, in this case, Chicago-style, take in the article in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times by Mike […]
Comedy Central Jet Lag contest
Hop onto the Comedy Central site to enter their Jet Lag Sweepstakes. The Grand Prize winner will receive four round […]
Howie Mandel: Our guide to the future?
The first few grafs of a LA Times story on Howie Mandel’s new series is fascinating. Not only did Mandel […]
200 hours of Rascals TV show on XM
According to a release from the company that is administering the licensing to the tapes of the old Rascals Good […]
Give blood at the Laugh Factory (West)
From the LA Weekly: There’s got to be a joke here: At the Laugh Factory’s Hollywood Cares Day, you give […]
Vancouver Festival gears up
If you’re keeping track of the upcoming comedy festival in Vancouver, hop onto the CanWest ComedyFest website. So far, they’ve […]
Saget chat on USAToday
A reader, Patty Wall, writes that Bob Saget did a chat on USAToday (Click it for the transcript) today. Wall’s […]
Piven to star as comedian
From the Dark Horizons website, comes this heads up: In his first proper film since “Narc,” Joe Carnahan will direct […]
Aspen info: Submissions, etc.
A sharp-eyed Doug Hecox sends this along: USCAF/ASPEN SUBMISSIONS Since its inception in 1995, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival has […]
Helium in Philly WED night
ABOVE: Brian McKim (l) and Dennis Horan We had a swell time at Helium last night. Helium is the first […]
Standup newsgroup roundup (Revised again!)
In a previous post, we told of the formation of a new newsgroup, moderated.alt.comedy.standup, which was recently started to serve […]
SHECKYmagazine.com in the flesh
Sunday was a double-hit day– hits in the Chicago Sun-Times (scroll down for that posting) and a hit in the […]
We have our winners!
Congratulations! We have our winners! Leana Benson– Grand prize: Dane Cook’s Retaliation CD/DVD! (In stores NOW!) + the Harmful if […]
HBO dissing Aspen? Maybe we missed the point.
If you haven’t been following The Comeback, HBO’s original comedy starring Lisa Kudrow, it’s a fascinating, if somewhat excruciating peek […]
alt.standup.comedy now moderated!
It was only a matter of time. Long ago, there was a usenet newsgroup called alt.comedy.standup which provided a convenient […]
Chicago Sun-Times dissects Aristocrats
In an Chicago Sun-Times article by Mike Thomas, in anticipation of the film’s impending opening in the windy city, the […]
How long have you been reading SHECKYmagazine?
We changed the poll, so it’s time to analyze the stats and put up a new one. First the stats: […]
"Completely wrong and irrelevant"
Edinburgh is going on right now. An article in The Scotsman tells of some difficulty being encountered by some of […]
Chappelle gone…from TV, maybe…
While Charlie Murphy is telling everyone that Chappelle’s Show is gone, he’s also telling our own Paul Ogata that it’s […]
NYC Underground Fest secures Bloomberg blessing
Proclaiming that “This will be the largest comedy festival in the history of New York City,” George Sarris, Big Cheese […]
Join the fray: EW's list of fave comedy bits
Gary Susman, writing for Entertainment Weekly, takes the occasion of the release of The Aristocrats to pen a list of […]
Jeffery Ross accepts Comedia trophy
“Patriot Act” director Jeff Ross accepts the Comedia Award in a ceremony July 24th at the Monument National in Montreal […]
Griffin night on Bravo
Good for Kathy Griffin for providing viewers of her My Life on the D-List with a glimpse into a certified […]
Hysterical Kathy Griffin interview
PlanetOut.com conducted an interesting and hysterical interview with Kathy Griffin: It’s really weird, because that happens all the time, and […]
Who's minding Minding the Store?
A reader, Bruce, writes: “How about some feedback on Pauly Shore‘s ‘Minding the Store’ comedy disaster?” Good question, Bruce. We […]
Aristocrats does "huge business"
From eonline.com comes this: The only bright spot among new releases came courtesy of a dirty old joke. The Aristocrats, […]
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