SHECKYmagazine archive for November, 2007
(46 posts)
Essayist blames Seinfeld for world's ills
Grab your towel and swim in this pool of bile— It’s a ridiculous, delusional screed penned by Ron Rosenbaum for […]
Road Atlas Shrugged Reminder
This is a reminder to check out The Female Half of the Staff’s new Blogspot blog Road Atlas Shrugged! In […]
Landis profiles Rickles on HBO
Check out a preview of “Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project” John Landis– the director behind ‘Animal House’ and ‘The […]
XM's Canadian comedy channel seeks CD's
The XM channel, Laugh Attack (XM153), features mostly Canadian comedians. They are seeking CD’s from “Canadian stand-ups and sketch comedy […]
Comedy Central corrupting America's youth
But in a good way. Brian Regan, Demetri Martin, Nick Swardson, Dane Cook, Mitch Hedberg, Lewis Black, Kathy Griffin— these […]
Mile High market report from Hecox
Roving SHECKYmagazine columnist Doug Hecox recently found himself in the Rockies, where he was able to witness up close that […]
Steve Martin recalls his standup years
Earlier this month, USA Today ran an excerpt from Steve Martin‘s autobiography, “Born Standing Up.” I DID STAND-UP COMEDY for […]
Bob Lazarus gets by with a little help
Nick Zaino III writing last week for the Globe’s Boston.com says that Stoughton’s Bob Lazarus, recently diagnosed with leukemia, has […]
The pot calling the kettle crazy
An article from the Victoria (BC) Times Colonist details the efforts of mental health consellor David Granirer’s efforts to start […]
Open mike… in Uganda?
Oh, yeah. There’s a comedy open mike contest, going on for two months, in Uganda. So says the article from […]
"I don't do nervous."
Back on July 11, we posted the following, in a posting about a U.K. outfit that teaches standup to kids: […]
Female acts rare in U.K., plentiful here
We extract this quote from an article the U.K. Independent on the dearth of female standup comics in Britain: When […]
"Dive bar" in A.C. fights back
In one of Michael Klein’s recent Inqulings column in the Philadelphia Inquirer is an item that details a suit filed […]
Boise Bone teetering on the brink?
Not so, says the club’s manager, Pat Mac. “Whether it’s under the Funny Bone name or a different name, comedy […]
Thanksgiving Eve at the New Wave
From Left: Frank Barnett, Spins Nitely, The Legendary Wid at New Wave We finished with our responsibilities at our gig […]
Even Mike McDonald's balls are funny
Above are just one of the many different varieties of “The World’s Funniest Golf Balls” developed by Mike McDonald (Boston […]
Our 2,000th Post!
This post, about how we have reached the 2000th post, is our 2,000th post! That’s right, 2,000 posts ago, we […]
Bounced check = Hair on fire
The inboxes of Standup America have been clogged with breathless emails referencing an incident in which a comedian received a […]
Female Half has her own blog
The Female Half of the Staff has created her own blog– Road Atlas Shrugged, over at Blogger.com– where she’ll write […]
Time reading SHECKYmagazine?
Time magazine has a piece about the burgeoning comedy scene in Hong Kong (“How to Write a Joke in China”). […]
SHECKYmag in NYT on C.K.
SHECKYmagazine.com was quoted in the New York Times article on Louis C.K., (not Calvin Klein). Peter Keepnews interviewed C.K. on […]
Festivals? Oh, yeah… festivals.
There was a festival last week in NYC. And there’s a festival going on this week in Las Vegas. We […]
Paglia on DeGeneres, O'Donnell
Camille, in Slate.com, interrupts her latest opinion piece to toss in this scathing paragraph about the two prominent comedians: On […]
Backyard Comedy Festival in Vegas
The mini-poster/flyer on Matt Markman’s Myspace promotes Brandt Tobler’s Backyard Comedy Festival, with photos of Brody Stevens and Morgan Murphy. […]
Growing Up 70's
FOS Jim Mendrinos has co-written (with director Jason Summers) an off-Broadway musical review called “Growing Up 70s,” described as “an […]
Tim Allen on why he doesn't do standup
In a Variety article pumping his upcoming release “The Six Wives Of Henry Leafy,” is the following quote: Allen still […]
Klein in Princeton, Attell on HBO
December 8 marks the debut of Dave Attell‘s latest HBO special (schedule here) is his first for that cable outlet […]
Veterans Day 2007
It’s the day we honor those who served. Here’s a picture (above) of the Male Half’s father (that’s him on […]
Holiday shopping suggestions
The Mitch Hedberg Calendar is “selected artworks inspired by the comedy genius of Mitch Hedberg.” The limited edition 2008 calendar […]
TV in reruns, now Broadway dark
Earlier this week, the WGA went on strike, forcing many shows to go to reruns. Now, stagehands have gone on […]
Second generation Iranian comic
EDITORS NOTE: Shappi Khorsandi is a woman. We shall go change the “he” to “she” and the “his” to a […]
Musing on Ottawa's comedy scene
Here’s a reasoned opinion piece on the recent change in venue of a monthly comedy night in Ottawa. The monthly […]
Comedy on the upswing
Back in the mid-80’s, the Male Half was unparalleled among his peers when it came to predicting a downturn in […]
Michael Winslow for Geico
If you were watching the CBS series Without A Trace this evening, you probably saw a commercial for Geico, one […]
Blogger on the fritz… better now
Readers may have noticed posts appearing and disappearing, along with comments. Blogger was having technical issues which they seem to […]
Madigan: All comedians are ugly
We’re not paraphrasing. It’s in the Cox News Service interview that ran in the Kansas City Star. The fact is, […]
Tom Wilson on the small screen
Tom Wilson is all over the tube tonight. He’ll appear on House (Season 4, Episode 6) as “Lou.” (He’s “Thomas […]
Benny Hill is death to Title IX
Humor, it seems, can hurt. So say researchers whose experiments found that sexist jokes promote “discrimination against women.” Participants were […]
Slice of Long Island comedy history
Denis Hamill interviews Richie Miniervini for the NY Daily News and they talk about the East Side. Eddie Murphy, Ray […]
Repeat after us…
From an interview on 411mania.com comes this quote from interviewer Tony Farinella, in response to Victoria Jackson‘s statement that bad […]