On Beavers and old beefs

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 8th, 2008

Variety reports on the Canadian Comedy Awards. They handed them out in Regina last weekend.

Canadian TV comic Gerry Dee won awards for stand-up male comic and TV taped live performance.

Russell Peters won large venue comic of the year; Nikki Payne won stand-up female comic; Peter Anthony won stand-up newcomer.

That newcomer name rang a bell.

Back on December 8, 2004, we posted this, about the introduction of a new column. It was to be penned by a Canadian comic by the name of Peter Anthony.

(We seem to recall that Anthony got a lot of heat for the initial column and decided that holding forth on the Canadian comedy scene was not a good way to endear himself to the powers that be. Pity. Understandable, but still a pity.)

Readers may recall that Gerry Dee was a finalist on 2007’s Last Comic Standing. We encountered Dee at the Hyatt Regency a year ago this past July, up at the Festival Just For Laughs. He was introduced to us and, when he made the connection between us and SHECKYmagazine, he went mental on the Female Half, citing the supposedly harsh treatment he suffered at the hands of our one-time correspondent Dobie Maxwell. Maxwell filed what we considered a rather even-handed and reasonable commentary on the events surrounding the San Francisco Comedy International Comedy Competition that both he and Dee participated in (and which Dee won).

We had a heck of a time finding the SFICC wrapup. But we eventually located it via the Wayback Machine. Turns out the account was from the 2002 contest and Dee was nursing a nearly five-year-old grudge. Yeesh!

Speaking of past Last Comic Standing contestants who hold a grudge, we were told a delightful story recently about three LCSers– from the most recent season– who were visiting the Comedy Stop at the Trop in Vegas. (If you’ve never been there, proprietor Bob Kephart has lined the corridor with framed 8 X 10’s of all the folks who’ve performed at the Stop(s) over the years.) The threesome were gazing upon the headshots and picking out the folks who were no longer with us. The story goes like this:

Comic One (Pointing at pic of deceased comic): Dead.

Comic Two (Pointing at photo of another deceased comic): Dead.

Marcus (Pointing at headshot of The Male Half): That’s the guy from SHECKY… I wish he was dead!

How about that!

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