SHECKYmagazine archive for January, 2007
(28 posts)

Jonathan Katz' new/first CD, "Caffeinated"

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 31st, 2007

Can you believe that Jonathan Katz never released a CD before “Caffeinated?” (Available on Amazon.com) It hit the stores yesterday. […]

Superdeluxe launches

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 30th, 2007

TBS, who is staking it all on comedy programming (“very funny” is their tagline. No caps, which makes it… hysterical!), […]

Adding hatefulness to emptiness?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 30th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 27th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 26th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 26th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 24th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 23rd, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 23rd, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 22nd, 2007

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?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 20th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 20th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 18th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 18th, 2007

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!"

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 17th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 15th, 2007

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?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 14th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 11th, 2007

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.

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 10th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 9th, 2007

Sorry for the late notice, but the Male Half of the Staff is featured in an interview on All Things […]

SoCal here we come

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 8th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 8th, 2007

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)

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 8th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 6th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 4th, 2007

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 3rd, 2007

Not sure why Universal would want to change it, but… On August 13 of 2005, we posted about how Joe […]

Fired! by Annabelle Gurwitch

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 2nd, 2007

“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!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 1st, 2007

Is Bill Hemmer toasted? (We think he just proposed getting a $2,000 hotel room with Julie Banderas!) And when did […]