SHECKYmagazine archive for August, 2010
(19 posts)

Who books it?

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

There’s absolutely no reason why a comedy club shouldn’t have clear, detailed booking information for comedians on the comedy club […]

Only a matter of time

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 30th, 2010

It’s the answer video to “Stand Up Comedy Is NOT Pretty,” an anonymous xtranormal video that we posted about last […]

“Comic opens fire in bar”

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 30th, 2010

Channel 6 is on the case! Three people were shot when a stand-up comedian opened fire in a crowded Marion […]

Great. That sounds fair.

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

We saw this posted as Isaac Witty‘s Facebook status update.  The creator is comedyisnotpretty10.  We don’t know who that is. […]

Headed for the World Series of Comedy

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

We just finalized our travel arrangements for next month’s trip to Vegas for the World Series of Comedy. It’s going […]

Children starving… for attention

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

We have long held that it’s ghastly to inflict children doing standup on a comedy club crowd. It was Robert […]

Television viewers getting older

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

And by that, we mean that the average age of the Big Four television networks is getting higher. The Hollywood […]

On the anniversary of The King’s passing

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 16th, 2010

Three years ago, The Female Half, in her regular “Keep It Tight” column, recalled the passing of her grandfather, who […]

BBC enters gender fray

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 16th, 2010

It’s Chapter 10 of today’s isse of the BBC broadcast, Newshour (hit the little black box marked “10” to go […]

On “nutty comedy exercises”

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

From the Facebook status update of Costaki Economopoulos: I’m about 9 sets in to understanding comedy in Scotland, and I […]

We got your bone right here

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 12th, 2010

Predictably, we’re getting a lot of comments on our posting on the final episode of LCS. In rare cases, we […]

Last Comic Standing Finale

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 10th, 2010

Congratulations to Felipe Esparza! He’s this season’s “Last Comic Standing.” It must be tough– unbearably tough– to come so close […]

Last Comic Standing Season 7 Winner

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 9th, 2010

We’re exhausted.  We just spent several hours on the beach (Island Beach State Park… very nice!) with the Vos/McFarlane’s, and, […]

Carlin’s best three minutes? (Updated)

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

There’s a clip that circulating on the WWW (mainly via Facebook) that purports to be George Carlin’s “best three minutes” […]

Tough choices in Vegas

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

From a Sahara Hotel & Casino’s Facebook update: Sahara Hotel & Casino Sahara’s spreading the summer love by extending its […]

Your tax dollars at play

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 3rd, 2010

“Summertime Blues” is a rather hefty PDF that’s making the rounds. It was published jointly by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) […]

You can fool some of the people…

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 3rd, 2010

Strngelilblkgrl tweets: Apparently, America likes its comedy white, male, & heterosexual #lastcomicstanding Apparently? It’s not apparent at all. What is […]

America’s still got talent

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 3rd, 2010

We didn’t watch America’s Got Talent last week. We’re boycotting the show after they put through the old lady who […]

Last Comic Standing S07E09

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on August 3rd, 2010

One more to go! Jonathan Thymius GONE! It must be awful to get that close to the tour– the lengthy, […]