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SHECKYmagazine archive for November, 2005
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Seattle winner
From the P-I: San Diego comedian Lamont Ferguson won the 26th annual Seattle International Stand-up Comedy Competition. In a five-night […]
Shecky sighting: Journal of Law & Communications
From “Reconciling Artist’s Moral Rights with Economic Principles and the Problem of Parody: Some Modest Proposals,” on the Journal of […]
We have a winner!
Phil Porter, of Denver, CO, is the lucky winner of our SHECKYmagazine.com Sweatshirt Giveaway! Congratulations to Mr. Porter! And we […]
Dane Cook hosting SNL
Dane Cook (website) will host the Dec. 3 Saturday Night Live. The dream that I had in 7th grade is […]
"Amazing, Jonathon"
So read the subject line on an email we got this morning. Now, normally, we get hundreds of emails with […]
Sometimes you can blame the crowd
Jerry Fink’s Las Vegas Sun review of a recent Monday night at Kathleen Dunbar‘s Divas of Comedy in the Casbar […]
Where does a comic settle?
“You Are Where You Work– Comedy Across the Country” is the name of one of the articles written by Vince […]
Silverman takes heat for twisted joke
The Boston Herald is reporting that Sarah Silverman is getting some flack because of a joke in her performance video, […]
WSJ reporter keeps her day job
A comic and a faithful reader, T. Reilly, hipped us to a fluffy piece by in Saturday’s WSJ in which […]
Comic among those shot in Tacoma Mall
Brendan “Dan” McKown was among those shot by the jackass who shot up the Tacoma Mall a few days ago. […]
We're back from holiday…
Thanksgiving is over. We’re back in the office. There are three new posts below…AND a SHECKYmagazine.com GIVEAWAY! Scroll down, comedy […]
Chappelle/Chapelle and the tonedeaf NYT
The article (Reg. req.) in today’s New York Times, written on the occasion of Chappelle/Chapelle’s appearance a the recent HBO […]
More Canadian radio; Interview w/Brian McKim!
After recently plugging Laugh Tracks in a Nov. 2 posting, we received an email from Guy MacPherson, plugging his radio […]
Swedish comedy scene? Ja!
If you aren’t depicted on Kamikaze, well, you probably can’t call yourself a Swedish comedian. We exaggerate, but probably not […]
Another SHECKYmagazine.com Giveaway!
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"Hip Nip" dead at 73
AP is reporting that Pat Morita is dead at the age of 73. Morita was a standup comic before he […]
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Both halves of the staff would like to wish all our readers a happy Thanksgiving! We have plenty to be […]
Seattle finalists announced
Things are winding down in the Seattle Comedy Competition. They’re in the last two or three months of the contest […]
Laughter used for tawdry purposes
An article about an “important new study from the forthcoming Quarterly Review of Biology” says that a long time ago […]
XMRadio attacks Canada
XMRadio has added a new channel, Laugh Attack, which showcases Canadian acts. We noticed it for the first time while […]
Review-Journal wrapup of The Comedy Festival
Mike Weatherford wrote a lengthy piece on last weekend’s gathering in Vegas. Not your ordinary fluffy wrapup, but a decent […]
Cleveland Comedy Challenge
We got an email about yet another comedy contest, this one to take place in Cleveland. The Ground Floor Theater […]
Laugh Factory eBay auction winner
It can be revealed that the winner of the Laugh Factory’s charity auction (via eBay) last month was L.A.-based comic/actor […]
Set in A.C., comics abound in Duane Hopwood
David Schwimmer stars in “Duane Hopwood,” a little movie about a boozy pit boss in Atlantic City, released today. (Read […]
Two Turkish scientists walk into a bar…
Laurie David had them rolling in the aisles last night at The Comedy Festival in Vegas: “We’re calling for the […]
Leno welcomes Seinfeld and Berman
Just caught Seinfeld‘s set on Tonight. Great set, as usual. Then he did panel and pumped the Seinfeld boxed set. […]
Sorry for that?
So we’re walking down the hallway at our fine hotel here in Atlanta when we see it– A plastic bag […]
Comics getting their due in India?
In an interview in the Pune Times (please, save the jokes for later), Hindi comic Raju Srivastav says that he […]
U.S. to retain control of internet
Says the BBC: In an eleventh-hour agreement ahead of a UN internet summit in Tunis, Tunisia, negotiators agreed to leave […]
Yuk Yuks is having a contest
It’s a sign. Yuk Yuks, the 800-lb. gorilla of Canadian comedy, is having a contest, called the Great Canadian Laugh […]
Former comic, fired talk show host, re-hired
AP reports that Michael Graham, who was canned from WMAL-AM in D.C. for calling Islam a “terrorist organization,” has landed […]
Big Move… via the birth canal
According to former Big Mover Tommy James, he and wife Michelle have created Devin Thomas James, a 6-lb. 3oz., 18-in. […]
Laugh Dance… you mean like Slamdance?
First, there was Sundance. A film festival that claimed to champion the smalltime, alternative filmmaker and eschew the big-studio, conglomerate […]
Thanks for attending Kelly Moran's memorial…
We just received an email from Scott Bennett. Below is but a small portion of it: My name’s Scott Bennett […]
HBO/TBS Las Vegas Fest to be LA-centric
Hollywood Reporter says: Although the festival’s focus is on the consumer market, industry insiders from Los Angeles are expected to […]
Between Buffalo and Atlanta
We just got back from three days at the Buffalo Comix Cafe. We were pleased to see that the USA […]
All that hard work…
Read the New York Post review (Free reg. req.) of the limited-run reality series Comedians of Comedy but find something […]
Weather looks Black up ahead
Word has rippled throughout the world’s English-language media that Lewis Black will be used by The Weather Channel to… to… […]
Balto Sun trashes pair of PBS comedy specials
David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun gives terribly negative reviews of two of this evening’s PBS offerings– The Kennedy Center […]
"I'm James Lipton bitch!"
“…and welcome to Inside The Actors’ Studio.” Did we dream that? Did we actually hear that Dave Chapelle/Chappelle will be […]
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