"A Man And A Woman" too successful!

Our very short film, “A Man And A Woman” is a victim of its own success! Within the the first […]

Mitch Hedberg tribute at MPLS' Acme

One year ago today, Mitch Hedberg died. The folks at the Acme Comedy Co. in Minneapolis (“Mitch’s hometown”) have assembled […]

Apsen followup from Adam Gropman

Anyone like to read more about the recently concluded goings on in Aspen? Our own Adam Gropman has filed his […]

Lopez enshrined on Walk

From AP: LOS ANGELES Comedian George Lopez is the latest recipient of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. […]

Todd Barry on Comedy Central Friday night

Todd Barry. Tomorrow night. At 9 PM EST. The premiere of his Comedy Central Presents. Todd Barry, doing our Question […]

What is with the Nordic comics and the Bible?!

You’ll recall we posted on Feb. 20 (“Bloody riots provoked by… Danish comedian?”) about a Danish comic who gleefully peed […]

The one next to Clark Kellogg

There’s a profile of Seth Davis in today’s USA Today. Readers, hungry for any news morsel in the giant gap […]

"Opus & Anthony" by Traci Skene

In her latest column The Female Half of the Staff talks about getting lustily booed by an O & A […]

Spade on standup comedy

ComingSoon.net interviewed David Spade: CS: How important is standup for you? Spade: I think I’m getting worse. I’ve been doing […]

First comics on Last Comic Standing?

The word on the street is that two comics are known to be among those chosen to appear on the […]

From: Traci Skene To: editors@sheckymagazine.com Subject: Charity Event from Traci Date: Mar 25, 2006 7:16 PM An LA comedian, Erica […]

Yank vent on Kiwi TV

It’s our lame attempt at mimicking a Variety headline. It’s also our clumsy way of summarizing a story on a […]

Former Punchline employee among those killed

Sad news out of Atlanta. Lyn Bartlett, a server at the Punchline for more than a decade, was among three […]

SHECKYmagazine.com quoted in USAToday…

…again! We’re fielding so many media inquiries that we weren’t even aware of the hit we got in today’s USAToday. […]

Garlin's new series

Check out the brief Chicago Sun-Times article about Jeff Garlin‘s new series. Former Chicago funnyman Jeff Garlin’s new TV pilot […]

The Heist features a comedian cop

Barry Garron, writing for the Hollywood Reporter, stretches credulity when he claims that the new NBC series The Heist utilizes… […]

Democrats should do some open mikes

John Rogers, according to his own bio, on his blog, Kung Fu Monkey “started doing stand-up in 1988, got his […]

Us with Goodnights Hizzle EmSizzle

We’ve been at Charlie Goodnights in Raleigh for the past few days. We’re back in the office now. This is […]

If you gig for Donald Trump…

…get the check beforehand. Anyone catch The Apprentice last week? The teams were tasked with entertaining a bunch of car […]

Paul Ogata's recollections of Aspen

Paul Ogata has turned in a Big Move about his Aspen experience: “Early Saturday afternoon, I opted to pass on […]

We're having tech difficulties…

…as you can plainly see. We’re working hard to resolve these problems. As the television stations usta say: Please Stand […]

White, Madigan specials on Comedy Central

We’re giving you 12 days notice about Kathleen Madigan‘s Comedy Central special debuts next Saturday at 8:30 PM ET. It’s […]

Dying is easy…

…and, as the saying goes, comedy is hard. Just got the following email from comedian Chrissy Burns: Thought you might […]

"Dear Tom Kenny…"

It’s getting to be an epidemic. We’re getting a letter every other week or so from a grade schooler who […]

Ensuring domestic tranquility

Craig Jarvis of the Raleigh News-Observer did a phone interview with male half of the staff in anticipation of our […]

Adam Gropman, reporting from Aspen

Our own Adam Gropman is in Aspen, observing, as only he can, the goings on at the U.S. Comedy Arts […]

An institution performing in an institution

Don Rickles has been performing as a headliner in Vegas for 47 years. Need we add more? Perhaps we’ll let […]

Hollywood types, funny about money

In January, we cited (“E! Dumps On Dunk!”) an E! Online item about comedian Scott LaRose‘s film, “Comedy Hell,” featuring […]

Shelley Berman is hot… again

Sandra Tsing Loh profiles Shelley Berman in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles (“Inside Shelley Berman, Again”): Further, while […]

Hear the sneer on the blogosphere

At the heart of the Oscarcast story? A comedian. The catalyst in the Danish Muslim cartoon controversy? A comedian. (Scroll […]

Chappelle/Chapelle WashPo profile

Paul Farhi has written a splendid profile of Dave Chappelle/Chapelle, taken from backstage conversations after a recent sold out concert […]

SHECKYmagazine takes over Aspen!

Sorta kinda sorta. It has come to be known simply as “Aspen.” The official title is The United States Comedy […]

Saginaw? It's gone… the club, that is.

We don’t normally mention this kind of thing here… We were scheduled to work in Saginaw, MI, this weekend. (Yeah, […]

We're not liking what we're hearing

We’ve read a lot of articles in the past 24 hours about the Oscarcast. As the day wore on, the […]

It's Hard Out Here For A Comic (ADDENDA)

Don’t be fooled by the headline on the review of Stewart’s performance on the website for Canadian television. Their praise […]

Oscarcast: Where was Don Knotts?

They take the only nominee with a sense of humor and a near-permanent smirk (George Clooney) and they have him […]

Jon Stewart… the reality

Hour number one of the Oscarcast is over. We laughed heartily at several points. The fake host thing that opened […]

Todd Barry on "teaching" the deaf

It only takes a few minutes to read the touching NYT Magazine article (Free reg. req.), a humor piece by […]

Another shift at the rumor mill– L.C.S. IV

Here’s what we’re hearing (from an anonymous email): 1) Just because one made it past the Tempe round does not […]

Shecky Greene reference alert

Chris King, writing in Las Vegas City Life, on the death of his old man, “lounge giant” Sonny King (so […]