“Are We Still Talking About The Same Thing?” Now Available!

Brian McKim’s comedy special, “Are We Still Talking About The Same Thing?” was taped at the Dry Bar Comedy Club […]

“Bigotry And Bloodshed!” It’s Episode 7 of the SHECKYmagazine Podcast!

In Episode 7, “Bigotry And Bloodshed,” Brian & Traci walk the listener through the “Comedy Civil War” and the “blowback” […]

Not just another podcast!

SHECKYmagazine’s Internet Quinceanaro!

Today is the anniversary of the launch of SHECKYmagazine.com! Fifteen years ago today, we uploaded our first “issue.” Back then, […]

Don’t mind us, we’re crazy

Drudgereport.com linked to it, so it’s been injected directly into the veins of social media. There’s no stopping a meme […]

David Byrne interview

Salon’s David Daley interviews David Byrne on the occasion of the release of Byrne’s book, “How Music Works.” Byrne is […]

Rodney.com is live.

The Halves of the Staff had the pleasure of meeting Joan Dangerfield, widow of Rodney Dangerfield, when she was in […]

The American Comedy Awards are baaaaaack…

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that NBC as acquired the rights to The American Comedy Awards and will broadcast the […]

Comic shot dead in Las Vegas

We were hanging out at the Laugh Factory until late Sunday night. When we awoke the next morning, we read […]

SHECKYmagazine’s early pro bono work

We got a letter (actually a comment) on the occasion of our 14th anniversary (which was back in April). Wow, […]

S10 Ep1805 The Late Late Show Video 10/11/2013

Craig welcomes actress Rashida Jones with comedy by Brian McKim. (TV- 14 D, L) Above is a screencap provided by […]

Male Half on late late night television

The Halves are so exhausted right now that we can’t post much more than this. Let’s just say that The […]

The death of skepticism?

Last month, we posted about how a “comic’s wet dream” has become more like premature comedy ejaculation: …a comic’s wet […]

Punching the Clown

Co-written by comedian Henry Phillips and Gregori Viens (and ably directed by Viens), “Punching the Clown” tells the story of […]

Chappelle’s doing it wrong.

In our original posting (see below), we allowed that maybe Dave Chappelle was having an off night in Hartford (and, […]

Half-baked theories: Chappelle’s Hartford show

Dave Chappelle was “heckled” by adoring fans at a sold-out show… … a year ago last June… in Austin, TX. […]

How not to use social media to promote your venue

It’s The Female Half of the Staff’s birthday today! And, along with all the other well-wishes, she found this: Happy […]

Johnny House is in the house!

From Ask The Past, a website that provides wisdom on contemporary problems from “old books,” comes this advice on “How […]

Cozy Morley, comedian

Comedy fans of a certain age in the Philadelphia/South Jersey area know Cozy Morley, who died last week at age […]

You hear that noise?

That’s the sound of thousands of standup comics being unfriended on Facebook. From an article (linked off of Drudge) entitled, […]

What a load of bull

By now, you must have heard about the rodeo clown who made the mistake of mocking the most powerful man […]

Comics’ “wet dream” is a nightmare

One thing about shooting fish in a barrel– sure, it’s easy, but it’s exceedingly boring to watch. How many times […]

SHECKYmagazine.com… what’s your emergency?

We were driving home from the Las Vegas 51s baseball game on Thursday night when, at about 11 PM, we […]

Virgin Airways to Feature Live Stand-Up Acts

Virgin will be offering standup comedy on some of their domestic (UK) flights. This is not the first time someone […]

The Female Half will not sit on it…

Anyone who’s worked with either or both of us in the past few weeks has been driven nutty with our […]

Don’t let the screen door hit you…

Somewhere in the stack of receipts and hastily scrawled joke ideas and bills and miscellaneous bits of paper on the […]

“Double Date” with Shane & April

“This week Shane and April are joined by Shecky Magazine’s Traci Skene and Brian McKim. Listen in as they discuss: […]

SHECKYmagazine Summer Reading List 2013

All you Kindle owners out there looking for something… comedy… to read– we have a short list for you. Our […]

“The Business of Comedy”

The Halves of the Staff are featured in the new documentary by Scott Sobel and Gary Licker called “The Business […]

B.C. High Court says comic must pay

The lede of the story in Canada’s National Post nutshells it pretty well: In a ruling that could carry implications […]

John Weiss, Rahn Ramey, comedians

We lost two comedians in one week. John Weiss was familiar to veteran East Coast comedians, particularly those who came […]

Perhaps we should have called it “PvtBraddockMagazine.com”

From a reader, comedian Doug Doane, comes an email (reprinted with permission): Hey… I don’t know if I ever told youse […]

Comedy cicadas

People ask us why we don’t post for long periods of time.  And then we post furiously.  Only to disappear […]

Comedy Bloghorn #7

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.” — From a recent […]

“Dark basements full of angry men”

We watched the “debate” between Jim Norton and insipid busy body Lindy West on FX’s Totally Biased, hosted by W. […]

Memes Mabley

There’s a website called “Every Day Victim Blaming.” We know, we know… it sounds like a satire or a parody […]

Between a Yuk and a hard place

An acquaintance (a friend?*) of ours, comedian Christina Walkinshaw of Toronto, was recently banned from a casino. Banned! From a […]

The After Show (It’s Not A Show) of May 16

It’s fast becoming an institution. Any and all comics who are in town (Las Vegas, that is) are invited to […]

Check the batteries on your fascism detector

After getting disinvited to an awards banquet, Bret Easton Ellis wrote a 3000+-word opinion piece for Out Magazine. In the […]

Close-minded response to an open letter

Oh, dear. There’s an “open letter” making the cyber rounds. This one’s addressed to “white male comedians.” And normally we […]