SHECKYmagazine archive for January, 2006
(45 posts)
CD Giveaway! We have our winners!
Three lucky SHECKYmagazine readers have won Ron White‘s new CD, “You Can’t Fix Stupid!” We would like to congratulate Tran […]
She's funny! I'm outta here!
FOS John Kensil alerted us to an article in the British newspaper, The Independent, ” Why men don’t fancy funny […]
Is that your interface…
…or did your neck throw up? As comedians, and as comedians who run a website, we constantly seek to determine […]
Comedy Central content peddled via iTunes
Over the cybertransom comes a press release from Comedy Central about how… …COMEDY CENTRAL is launching on iTunes today, with […]
"I just want you to knowthat cursing sells."
From an interview with Jim Gaffigan in the Iowa State Daily: To be completely honest, when I did my album […]
"…it has to be full sexual intercourse…"
Reuters is reporting that the majority of people in a study that had sex were “the least stressed and had […]
Goldthwait's movie at Sundance.
A Salt Lake City Trib article about Bob Goldthwait‘s movie. The Bobcat directed a film and it debuted at Sundance. […]
E! dumps on Dunk!
The last two paragraphs of an E! Online story written on the occasion of the release of a syndicated version […]
Comedy Central seeks World's Best Comic
Hop onto the Comedy Central website to vote for the “World’s Best Comic.” That’s right, we said the WORLD’S BEST […]
A trek to perform in The Green State
We had a blast performing at our “non-traditional comedy venue” last Saturday night, the Higher Ground in Burlington, VT. Great […]
HBO, "Luckey Louie" and Louis C.K.
“I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages–the less you know […]
Stewart honored by Soccer Coaches Assoc.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Marc Narducci wrote in a story in yesterday’s Inky that Jon Stewart received the National Soccer Coaches […]
Norm MacDonald to focus on standup
FOS and journo Guy MacPherson, writing for canada.com, says Norm MacDonald is back on the live stage: “I’ve kind of […]
D.I.Y. at Syracuse
If you can get around the photograph (which is the size of a throw rug), there’s an interesting article in […]
And the comic joked on…
…as the Big Four shrivel to nothing on the world market, this item appears in The Detroit News: Fake newscasts […]
Comic Blair Shannon, 46
Cincinnatti Enquirer story sent to us by reader Michael Lively says that Blair Shannon was shot and killed in a […]
Sarah Silverman: Toxic conservative?
John Birmingham, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald (“It’ll be all right on the night”) confirms a pet theory of […]
"Casting" has begun for L.C.S. IV
From NBC: Casting for Last Comic Standing 4 has already begun, with talent scouts traveling to major cities nationwide to […]
Hawaii Fest postponed
A mass email from the organizer of the Hawaii Comedy Festival, originally scheduled for May 18-21 of this year, says […]
Embracing mildly disruptive technology
We have a myspace. We just uploaded it, so we only have one friend– Tommy James. (And, so far, he […]
Seeking Higher Ground in Burlington, VT!
The publishers of SHECKYmagazine.com will be performing this Saturday night (Jan. 21) at Higher Ground in So. Burlington, VT. There […]
Last Comic Standing– AGAIN!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it: BURBANK – January 18, 2006 – The Emmy-nominated series “Last Comic Standing” will return […]
A week @ Borgata Comedy Club
SHECKYmagazine editor Brian McKim flanked by John DiCrosta (l) and Paul Bond in the Borgata Comedy Club green room Sunday […]
Trop to implode soon? Long live the 'Dike!
An item in Eye on Vegas: It would appear that the long rumored implosion of the Tropicana Hotel & Casino […]
Us: Seacrest says "Griffin out!"
Us Weekly reports that mean old Ryan Seacrest flexed his ever-growing muscles and bumped Kathy Griffin out of her regular […]
Canadian comics are eh?-political
Sarah Boothroyd, writing in The Ottawa Citizen (“Ottawa’s humour and politics rarely stand up together”), on the current state of […]
"Open ass, insert stick here.."
An article in the Savannah (GA) Morning News (free reg. req.) contains an account of a recent staging of the […]
Atlantic City: Who is in town?
Olympia, the young lady who cheerfully checked us in at the front desk of the Borgata apologetically warned us that […]
I found my thrill…
A CNN-IBN reporter, a vegetarian, is tasked with reporting on the best biryani in NYC, so she brings along the […]
Emerson intros American Comedy Archive
Billing it as “the first academic collection of its kind,” Emerson College is introducing the American Comedy Archives. The Boston […]
Bombing in Uganda is bombing in Seattle…
…is bombing in Cleveland, or London, or Mumbai. It is but a small paragraph in a hefty article (“Manufacturing Laughter” […]
Allan Johnson, Chicago Trib columnist, 46
Discovered this among the AP obits: CHICAGO (AP)– Allan Johnson, whose career started as a copy clerk and ended as […]
Comedy Central CD/DVD GIVEAWAY WINNER!
We have a WINNER! Stephen C. Knowles, of Beacon, NY He’s the lucky winner of Harland Williams‘s “Har-Larious,” a full-length […]
Sports comedy pilot seeks slot
According to the Daily News, comedian Paul Mercurio has produced (along with The Ben Stiller Show and Mad TV veteran […]
Tonight Show coming to a phone near you
This year’s Comdex (weren’t they just saying a year or two ago that Comdex was no more?) brings us this […]
"The New Mencken" to host Oscars '06
Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Latimes.com are all reporting that New Jersey’s own Jon Stewart will host the Academy Awards ceremony on […]
Sellout Comedy Tour is coming to town
Four comics, BT, Louis Johnson, Vince Morris and Billy D. Washington, have been packaged into The Sellout Comedy Tour, and […]
Will & Willie debuts on AM SF radio
Check out “WILL, WILLIE, WHY?”, an item on the blog Radio Equalizer, for an early review of KQKE 960 AM’s […]
Cable Guy lays cable, gets new customer
According to an anonymous source, Larry The Cable Guy, aka Dan Whitney, is expecting a child in August. Can “Git […]
"Meanyheads since 1999!"
Hop on over and read the interview with Patton Oswalt on website/chat board/portal Aspecialthing.com, in which Oswalt displays his special […]