Modified On December 17, 2009
As the editors and publishers of the WWW’s most beloved (and, occasionally, most hated) magazine about standup comedy, we’ve occasionally been trapped in a room with someone about whom we may have said some harsh things. We’re no stranger to that uncomfortable feeling. (Although the discomfiture is largely imagined, one-sided… so far, our opinions haven’t resulted in any busted lips or “ugly scenes.” Most of our encounters with any potential adversaries have turned out to be non-events or, in some cases, downright cordial.)
So we were amused when we noticed that comedian and Frequent SHECKYmagazine Commenter Myq Kaplan appeared on Tonight last night– and that Guest Number One was none other than Wanda Sykes.
Kaplan, readers will recall, was among the contingent that dumped on us for defending Sykes after a blogger for Gawker.tv called Sykes “lazy” and “racist” for telling a particular Tiger Woods joke in a recent monologue on her talk show.
We sure hope the whole brouhaha wasn’t on Kaplan’s mind in the moments leading up to his performance– the last thing anyone needs when preparing for a network television show is any kind of distraction like that!
BTW: Congratulations, Myq. (We spelled it right that time.)