SHECKYmagazine archive for May, 2006
(37 posts)
Pardo interview? Right here.
We noticed, from our stats, that people are searching for Jimmy Pardo. We interviewed him. We also did a Question […]
It's far worse than we had imagined…
Of all the nights to have DSL problems! Last Comic Standing… where do we begin… Let’s get this straight: Larry […]
Tonight: 2 hours of Last Comic Standing
Can you take 120 minutes of Last Comic Standing? It’ll be alot easier to digest if you read our near-real […]
Last Jackass Standing: Terry Morrow of SHNS
Terry Morrow, a blowhard who scribbles for The Knoxville News Sentinel (and whose nonsense is then ejaculated through the entire […]
"Patriot Act" to air on Showtime
Jeffrey Ross‘s fine film “Patriot Act” will be shown on Showtime this weekend. Tivo it, if you must. We saw […]
Last Comic Standing, the countdown begins
Catch our most meaningful and info-packed posts on the upcoming season of L.C.S. here and here and there’s another one […]
A trend? We can only hope.
Examine this: The Gotham Comedy Club Thursday May 25th, 7:30 PM Each Show Features Four 20-Year Veteran Headliners Plus A […]
Darren Carter The Party Starter
Here, depicted with SHECKYmagazine.com braintrust, is Darren Carter, at the bar at the Punchline in Atlanta. Hard to say which […]
Peter Kay voted funniest person alive
Peter who? Fear not, American readers, you’ve not fallen asleep for 20 years and awakened to a new world in […]
Charlie McCarthyism defeated in our lifetime?
The saga limps along. We’re beginning to think we’re witnessing the end of the experiment in terror known variously as […]
Summer in the city: Helium gets creative
It’s a short blurb, on Philadelphia’s Helium Comedy Club Specials page, but it represents an innovative way to get comedy […]
Track your plays via XM fan site
Have you submitted your sound files to XMRadio? Are you wondering if they’re being played? Wonder no more. Hop onto […]
Sleazy alternative media maneuvers
In Westword, the alterna-rag out of Denver, the following is penned by Amber Taufen: Standup comedy hasn’t evolved much since […]
Swim in The Soup tonight
We here at SHECKYmagazine are big fans of E!’s The Soup and a new episode airs tonight at 10 PM […]
Are you going to Just For Laughs?
The WWW’s most beloved magazine about standup comedy fully intends to head to Montreal for the EIGHTH YEAR IN A […]
Last Comic Standing– Surprise twist?!
SPOILER ALERT: If you don’t want to know how Last Comic Standing ends, you might not want to read the […]
Charlie McCarthyism gone!
Just got the following from an anonymous source, in an email signed only with “CP”: I feel the need to […]
Let's call it "Charlie McCarthyism"
Perhaps the first ones to be taken out back and shot will be the ventriloquists. Or maybe the hypnotists… or […]
Hatchet's buried in Godwin v. Rose
In the following post, we mistakenly identified Mr. Godwin as a “song parodist.” As the bulk of his output most […]
"Horribly offensive" or "satire?"
On Tuesday, AP reported (“Cingular Pulls Offensive Ringtone”) that Cingular Wireless had pulled a ringtone from its website after complaints. […]
New comedy festival? This time, it's Atlanta.
The folks at Atlanta’s Showcase Comedy, in the Buckhead section of town, are fixing to throw a festival. This one’s […]
Corporate comedy? Team buliding? Which is it?
We read this in a PRWeb press release entitled “Chicago Company Launches First Ever Corporate Comedy Tour” from “a leading […]
It's cool to be a comic, Pt. XXIV
Yet another Hollywooder claims to have been/admits to having been a standup comic. This time, in an interview with AP […]
What a country!
Unbeknownst to us, Yakov Smirnoff has been toiling away at the University of Penn, just across the river from us, […]
Standup comics lend their voices
Check out the article in Backstage.com on how standup comics are perfectly suited for doing commercial voiceovers and for voicing […]
Comedy Central wants you!
FOS Tommy James sends along a link to a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal about Comedy Central and […]
Reality TV? No…Reality.
We check into the Desert Sun’s (Palm Spring, CA) website once in a while to check out Darrell Smith’s Star […]
SoCal's Comedy District down, not out
FOS Dan Rosenberg writes: After 11 years in Culver City, San Gennaro is closing on May 15th. Thus, The Comedy […]
Matt Long, Comedian
Comedian Matt Long died late last month. A short item in the Ventura County Star says that Long, “…walked in […]
Penn & Teller's favorite comedy albums?
A brief Wall St. Journal piece on how Penn & Teller… …honed their comedic timing while listening to comedy cassettes […]
NYT, NYP followup on Colbert
It worked. UPI, in a short item entitled “Colbert controversy delivers ratings” reports: The New York Post said the routine– […]
We have a WINNER!
Congratulations to El Arntson of Moorhead, MN! Using our Random Number Generator, we have determined that El wins Lewis Black‘s […]
Should we call it CyberHeckling?
This is a first. A comedy club patron, so incensed by his treatment at the hands of a comedian, motors […]
Catch it on Netflix? DVD? MovieBeam?
“TV Set,” Jake Kasdan’s “precisely observed portrait of the television pilot process” debuted at the Tribeca Film Fest last weekend. […]
Mitch Hedberg Tribute, Acme, MPLS, 04/30
From the Acme Comedy Company Myspace profile (Hit “View my: Pics”). They say more pics are to come.
Where have all the Bob Hope's gone?
This year, it was Stephen Colbert who bobbled things at the White House Correspondents Dinner. We suppose they can’t resist. […]
Charm City gets a new comedy club
It’s official: According to the Baltimore Business Journal, Rascals will occupy the Inner Harbor spot left empty by the fleeing […]