SHECKYmagazine archive for August, 2010
(19 posts)
Who books it?
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
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”
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.
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
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
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
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
Three years ago, The Female Half, in her regular “Keep It Tight” column, recalled the passing of her grandfather, who […]
BBC enters gender fray
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”
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
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
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
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)
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
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
“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…
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
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
One more to go! Jonathan Thymius GONE! It must be awful to get that close to the tour– the lengthy, […]