SHECKYmagazine archive for January, 2010
(19 posts)
Comic spotted at Miss America pageant
An item on The Politico entitled “Limbaugh Lets Loose,” about the Miss America pageant’s “Judge of the Night” competition (no […]
Everybody's an expert. Rivers on Conan vs. Jay
A Vanity Fair article has wisdom from Joan Rivers regarding the current round of late night wars. Fox’s The Late […]
Win tix to fest open night show/party
To win a pair of tickets to the opening night Magners Comedy Standup Stand-off performances and launch party, become a […]
Cherry Hill NJ needs a good comedy club
Back on the 18th, comic Paul Bond posted the following on his Facebook status: A WARNING TO COMICS: I’m not […]
Andy Dick in hot West Virginia water UPDATE
UPDATE from a Herald Dispatch story, 2:59 PM Saturday: He’s facing one to five years if convicted. Two patrons claimed […]
Conan’s writers have fun with bad situation
We especially like the part where he exposes the lunacy surrounding music licensing. Nice idea. And great execution! Of course, […]
Shecky Greene cusses out Lewis, apologizes
From Norm Clarke’s gossip column in the Las Vegas Review-Journal comes this account of a Wish I Was There moment: […]
Last Comic Standing returns for season 7 CORRECTED AGAIN!
The press release says: LAST COMIC STANDING SEASON 7 Last Comic Standing is back with lucky season 7! This season […]
Female Half featured on Daily Caller
The Daily Caller, the “HuffPo-style political news and entertainment site” launched earlier this month by erstwhile CNN talking head Tucker […]
Late night television history
As we watch late night history being made, with an internet-enhanced, front row seat for this incarnation of Talk Show […]
Douchebaggery at the WSJ re Leno/Conan
For almost eleven years, we’ve been alerting our readers whenever anyone in the MSM relies too heavily on clichés or […]
Leno in, Conan out? Plot thickens!
Nikki Finke says Ron Meyer has been brought in to minimize the damage caused by Jeff Zucker and try to […]
SHECKYmagazine quoted in Indy BJ
We were awakened by our phone the other day… at 8:10 AM. And the caller left no message. We star-69-ed […]
Statement from Conan O’Brien
At 1:22 PM today, this hit the wires: UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ — Conan O’Brien released the following […]
What do people think of comedians?
It’s a question we’ve pondered for coming up on eleven years now. We were driving through Virginia, listening to the […]
Leno back to late night? UPDATE
From Deadline.com comes all kinds of new info in the ever-changing landscape at NBC! It’s a shootout! That’s the word […]
Youth In Revolt advert
We were watching the tube the other night when we saw a promo for the new Michael Cera movie “Youth […]
Comedian's passport deemed suspicious
A Continental gate agent flagged the passport of Joan Rivers, citing the comedian’s two names. (Her name is Joan Rosenberg, […]
Jean Carroll, comedian
The NYT obit lays it all out. She went solo as a comic when her male partner was drafted. The […]