SHECKYmagazine archive for May, 2007
(50 posts)

It's a small world after all…

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on May 7th, 2007

Ruchika Talwar, writing in the Pune Newsletter, starts off his account of the third season of the Great Indian Laughter […]

le Petomane on the Sopranos?

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

There’s a chance… and we are told that it is a chance and nothing more… that, on tonight’s episode of […]

SNL: Killed by too many standup comics

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

That’s one of the theories posited in “SNL in the ’90s: Pop Culture Nation,” the “documentary” produced, written and directed […]

Festival Just For Laughs announces lineup

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

Go here to see the lineup (or most of it, as they’re still working out the bugs) for the 2007 […]

Imus retains Lenny Bruce's attorney

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

Drudge is linking to a Fortune piece by Tim Arango that says Don Imus is gearing up for a lawsuit […]

Tom Poston, 85

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

Tom Poston died. Who didn’t laugh when Tom Poston entered the screen? It was automatic. His mere appearance was enough […]

Hip-hop, rhymes with flip-flop

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

From the NYT Magazine interview: NYT: Why don’t you try dating, say, a professor the next time around? Simmons: A […]

Sometimes they get it write

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

FOS Rabbi Bob Alper sent us a link to an article that appeared in the Toronto Star. It’s a lengthy […]

Comedy album collection needs good home UPDATE

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

UPDATE, From Mark DiShera: Everyone who expressed an interest seemed like they would give my records a great new home. […]

Internet killing our culture? Not guilty!

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

Andrew Wallenstein (Reuters) writes a devastating review of a book by a fellow named Andrew Keen, “The Cult of the […]