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SHECKYmagazine archive for August, 2008
(38 posts)

See TV in the making in NYC next week

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 22nd, 2008

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 22nd, 2008

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 19th, 2008

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?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 19th, 2008

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 16th, 2008

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 15th, 2008

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 15th, 2008

FOSJoe Starr shot out a bulletin in which he draws attention to his cousin Vincent Hancock, of whom he is [...]

ComedyFilmNerdsDotCom.com

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 14th, 2008

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 14th, 2008

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?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 13th, 2008

Rian Malan, writing for the WSJ.com site, provides a lengthy overview of at least one segment of the comedy scene [...]