SHECKYmagazine archive for January, 2007
(28 posts)
Jonathan Katz' new/first CD, "Caffeinated"
Can you believe that Jonathan Katz never released a CD before “Caffeinated?” (Available on Amazon.com) It hit the stores yesterday. […]
Superdeluxe launches
TBS, who is staking it all on comedy programming (“very funny” is their tagline. No caps, which makes it… hysterical!), […]
Adding hatefulness to emptiness?
It’s our new catchphrase around SHECKYmagazine HQ– “Adding hatefulness to emptiness!” Don’t you just adore that? It’s just one of […]
LAT on the SoCal alt-comedy scene
Writing for the Times, Chris Barton kicks off his sprawling assessment of the Los Angeles alt-comedy scene (“Amusing Asides”, Jan. […]
Seattle's alt scene profiled again
An article in The Stranger (“Don’t Fuck Up” by Brendan Kiley) goes into great detail on the maturation of the […]
Meet the Fokkers, then meet your maker
An article from the U.K. is making the rounds (It was forwarded to us by FOS Peter Berman.) that contains […]
The Seattle scene in flux
Robert L. Jamieson Jr., writing for the Post-Intelligencer, tells of turmoil in the PacNW, specifically of a mini-revolt among the […]
Catch in A.C. to close
Saturday night is the final night. Catch A Rising Star has been on the second floor of Resorts for two […]
Swerving from Colbert to Little
According to Jeffrey Goldberg, writing in New Yorker, Steve Scully, a senior executive producer of C-SPAN, and the president of […]
The good, the bad and the ugly
We got profiled in the Neighbors section of the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. Rusty Pray is the byline. It’s a nice […]
Shall we court the blogosphere?
Allow us to think out loud for a minute. (Which, when we get right down to it, is what blogging […]
Ron Carey, 71, former standup comic
According to the (low-bandwidth) UPI obit, Ron Carey was also “a former stand-up comic, (who) broke into films playing a […]
Mainstage to open in Seattle
We’re excited. The Mainstage Comedy and Music Club is opening in Seattle and The Male and Female Halves of the […]
Talk of resurgence on NPR
National Public Radio has, for the second time in a couple of weeks, turned its attention to standup comedy. This […]
"Hi, we're the Slowskys!"
We’re in our new SHECKYmagazine HQ now… a scant 1.25 miles and one municipality away from the old HQ. We […]
Visit from G-ville's own Skinny White Comic
Can’t post long… making the transition between apartments… we can say that we had the pleasure of meeting David Lee […]
McDonald's false advertising?
We’ve had it up to here with McDonald’s and their latest ad campaign– Any size coffee for 69 cents. You’ve […]
Madonna sticks up for comics
Madonna, hodling forth on the Rosie O/Donald Trump fight, said the following (and we’re paraphrasing, but only slightly): I think […]
O'Donnell gone? Not for another six months.
Roger Friedman of Fox News is reporting that Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View. Actually, Fox News is reporting that […]
Male Half on All Things Considered UPDATE
Sorry for the late notice, but the Male Half of the Staff is featured in an interview on All Things […]
SoCal here we come
We’ve bought the tickets, so there’s no turning back! We’re actually going to visit Los Angeles next month. (Folks in […]
Mary Lynn Rajskub in Parade
To promote next Sunday’s premiere of 24, in which she plays “computer genius Chloe O’Brian,” Mary Lynn Rajskub is interviewed […]
Jordan Carlos in the WashPo (CORRECTED)
Jordan Carlos (or “Stephen Colbert’s Black Friend,” as he is known to hundreds of thousands of Colbert Report viewers) guested […]
Funny female seeks audio of funny females
From comedian Amy Anderson comes the following solicitation: I’m currently working on a new radio project that gives exposure to […]
Vote early, vote often
Comedy Central is having a Standup Showdown in which they serve up the top 100 comics– “100 COMICS. ONE TITLE. […]
Smokin' Aces hits the theaters Jan. 26
Not sure why Universal would want to change it, but… On August 13 of 2005, we posted about how Joe […]
Fired! by Annabelle Gurwitch
“Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed,” is a collection of humorous essays about getting canned from Tim […]
Happy New Year from SHECKYmagazine!
Is Bill Hemmer toasted? (We think he just proposed getting a $2,000 hotel room with Julie Banderas!) And when did […]