SHECKYmagazine.com 12th Anniversary Party

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 2nd, 2011

We threw it together in 48 hours. We wanted to have a get-together here in Vegas to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the upload of the first “issue” of SHECKYmagazine.com. Initially, we were merely going to piggyback our celebration on top of the regularly scheduled Fryer’s Club meeting at the Mad Onion over at Hooters Casino Hotel, but the April 1 Fryers was postponed due to the fact that Fryer’s organizer Geechy Guy was out of town (bringing a road version of his “Dirty Joke Show” to Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, IN) and due to the fact that the current relationship between the Fryer’s and host venue Mad Onion might be… “in review.” So, utilizing social networking tools and good, old-fashioned cellphones, we arranged to have a faux, temporary, stopgap Fryer’s-type gathering in the friendly confines of the comedy club that houses Joe Lowers‘ Las Vegas Comedy Show at the Alexis Park.

From left to right, it's Todd Paul Ogata! This is our best concept photo since Dwight Slade Ham, which we snapped at Montreal in 2007!

So last-minute were the arrangements that we really had no idea if two people or two-hundred would show up. We invited Fryer’s regulars and texted locals and invited folks who we knew to be performing in town.

L to r: Mike Stigs, Greg Vacarriello, Kenny Thomas, ruling a banquette at Joe Lowers' LVCS showroom at the Alexis Park

Turnout was healthy! We were even honored by a brief visit from Carrot Top and his opening act Shayma Tash

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The Female Half of the Staff with Robert Duchaine

In keeping with the Fryer’s tradition, we arranged for $100 worth of wings for our guests. How many wings does a Benjamin buy? (We had no idea either! We figured, if we went by Hooters math– they’re currently offering 25-cent wings– that would be 400! Or it would buy us one, giant, freakish wing! Or somewhere in between!) Turns out it gets you about 80 or so. With veggies and dip on the side. And one of them fancy, silver chafing dishes to hold the wings. All spread out on a low-rise wall in the back of the showroom– low enough even for Tanyalee Davis to be able to reach the food! (Her observation, not ours, lest anyone think we’re mocking the vertically challenged!) Co-host Joe Lowers sprang for another half-order, thereby keeping late arrivals happy.

Matt Markman, Sarah (Brad Garrett's Comedy Club) and Charles Cheese

We hope our little shindig helped to keep the momentum going on the Fryer’s meetings. It’s one of the grooviest things about living in Vegas… and such a Vegas thing! And, when you get down to it, a very SHECKY thing. We haven’t used “SHECKY” as an adjective in quite some time. But the Fryer’s epitomizes the tenets of the SHECKY manifesto (which was published in the first issue 12 years and a day ago and which is possibly lost in the ether!).

L to r: Derrick J. Stroman, Joe Lowers, Gary Weaver

We’ll keep folks posted on the progress of the Fryer’s quest for a new home. And we urge all who visit Vegas to check their Facebook page (link above) and make sure you stop by when you’re in town. Every night of the week is special in Vegas, but this gathering makes Fridays even more so.

L to r: Todd Paul, Rob Sherwood, Joe Lowers, checking out Lowers' handiwork on the stage of the LVCS Theater.

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