SHECKYmagazine archive for January, 2010
(19 posts)

Comic spotted at Miss America pageant

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 31st, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 29th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 28th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 27th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 23rd, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 22nd, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 21st, 2010

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!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 20th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 19th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 18th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 15th, 2010

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!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 15th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 14th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 13th, 2010

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?

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 8th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 7th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 6th, 2010

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

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 6th, 2010

A Continental gate agent flagged the passport of Joan Rivers, citing the comedian’s two names. (Her name is Joan Rosenberg, […]

Jean Carroll, comedian

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on January 4th, 2010

The NYT obit lays it all out. She went solo as a comic when her male partner was drafted. The […]