SHECKYmagazine archive for August, 2008
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See TV in the making in NYC next week
They’ll be taping Comedy Central Presents next week at New York’s Hudson Theater (adjacent to the Millennium Hotel) at 145 [...]
Bad joke might endanger the teller
An AP article by Nicholas Geranios tells of a study by researcher Nancy Bell that found, among other things, that… [...]
Wallow in Carlin bio info
Kliph Nesteroff’s blog entry on George Carlin deals with George Carlin’s early years, from 1956 to 1970. Unfortunately no official [...]
Russel Crowe = Bill Hicks?
According to movie fan site Chud.com Crowe is working with a writer from New Zealand on a biopic (that’s BYE-oh-pic, [...]
Cavett in NYT on standup motivation
Dick Cavett expounds on his brief foray into standup and why comics become comics in the New York Times. And [...]
Boston's Wilbur to be standup comedy behemoth
In March, we linked to an article in the Globe about how Bill Blumenreich, the man behind Boston’s Comedy Connection [...]
Six degrees of Olympic separation UPDATE
FOSJoe Starr shot out a bulletin in which he draws attention to his cousin Vincent Hancock, of whom he is [...]
ComedyFilmNerdsDotCom.com
It’s got it all right there in the title: ComedyFilmNerdsDotCom.com. From the website comes this more detailed explanation: The founders [...]
Standup to benefit the kitties
A week from tomorrow, Friday, August 22, at the Broadway Comedy Club, will be a “Star-Studded Kensington Kitties Benefit.” featuring [...]
South African comedians renaissance men?
Rian Malan, writing for the WSJ.com site, provides a lengthy overview of at least one segment of the comedy scene [...]






