Black refuses to take the bait

Ed Condran of the Asbury Park Press has the following exchange with Lewis Black in a recent (Mar. 21) interview […]

Clint Black's standup journey

We posted earlier about Clint Black’s upcoming appearance on CBS’s Secret Talents of the Stars, in which the country singer […]

Kansas puts The Female Half over the top

Had Mephis hung on to their sizable lead… or maybe just not goofed up in the last minute… or sank […]

The view from St. Ignace

Comedian Dobie Maxwell blogs for OnMilwaukee.com on his life as a comic and various side projects. In a recent post, […]

April Fools' gag in Time Out Chicago

From TOC’s website (on April 1, of course): Jokeaholics Anonymous, a full-time stand-up comedy club, will open this Tuesday in […]

Endurance records at every turn

What is going on out there in Comedyland? A press release from a company called Robert Wagner Marketing and Entertainment […]

Last Comic Standing: Summer 2009

That’s right. Hollywood Reporter says that NBC is including LCS on their Summer ’09 schedule. That’s what their telling potential […]

April Fools' Day, 1999

That’s when we launched SHECKYmagazine.com! Can you believe we’ve been doing this for nine years? We started out as a […]

Last Comic Standing: Vegas results CORRECTION

Our extensive network of spies has fed us bits and pieces of information. We are fairly confident that we have […]

Madness Marches into April

We have tallied up the results so far, then re-checked our calcuations. The Female Half surged ahead of the Male […]

At the Joke Joint in Minnesota

Left to right: Ken Reed (Joke Joint proprietor), Brian McKim, Traci Skene, Dwight York Dwight York showed up on the […]

Charlie Rose interviews comedians

And comedian Matt Ruby emails us to tell us that he has thoughtfully fished for the interviews on Rose’s site […]

"Common thieves" rock the Canadian comedy boat

From last Saturday’s Toronto Globe & Mail is an article about the lawsuits that are flying back and forth between […]

Ritz series continues

Backstage at the Ritz Theatre, Oaklyn, NJ, last night, from left to right: Kevin Downey, Jr., Geno Bisconte and Mark […]

Last Comic Standing: In Vegas right now

They’re gearing up for the super-duper elimination round, where they pick the final ten comics that go to Los Angeles. […]

All hail our new comedy leader!!

An article in the Connecticut Post relates the story of a local Stratford, CT, boy, attending GWU, who has earned […]

An article in the Auburn (CA) Journal (Comedian Turns Spotlight On Healthcare) tells of comedian, producer and booker Grace White, […]

Meet us at the Joke Joint in Minneapolis!

Actually, Bloomington, but you can see Minneapolis from there! We’re going to be appearing together (Both Halves! Male and Female!) […]

As March Madness spills into April Idiocy…

…Things get interesting. The Female Half surged yesterday. She had Tennessee, Louisville, UNC, Texas and Memphis. As the points puff […]

Comedy "kind of dead right now"

Behold the inanity of this paragraph: Stand-up comedy is kind of dead right now, if you ask some people. Sure […]

Al Copeland, restaurateur, Improv franchiser

From his obituary in the International Herald Tribune: Al Copeland, who became rich selling spicy fried chicken and notorious for […]

“Easter Parade”

One of our dopiest short films ever. (Featuring the music of Irving Berlin and Mr. Acker Bilk and the singing […]

More March Madness madness!

After last night’s 16 games, things got bloody! The Male Half incorrectly called four games– He failed to foresee ‘Nova […]

It's a big pile of dumb!

Anyone in the mood for a big pile of dumb? Click here for Brian Lowry’s Variety article, “Why standups are […]

"Delicate, elusive and unstable"

No, that’s not a description of comedians. That’s how laughter is described by Will Durst in the article by Steven […]

More than just a documentary about comics

Documentary filmmaker R.J. Cutler has purchased the rights to Richard Zoglin’s “Comedy On The Edge” book, says Variety. While the […]

Clint (Lewis) Black?

From item on CMT.com: Clint Black is the latest country artist to star in a reality TV show, joining the […]

(Insert Comic's Name Here)

Is there a template that journalists use to create this stuff? This time, it’s a profile of comedian Mo Mandel […]

March Madness hits SHECKYmag HQ!

The Male Half of the Staff is leading in the SHECKYmagazine.com office pool. So far, he has accurately predicted the […]

Dan French blogging his writing packet CORRECT URL CORRECTION!

Duh! We forgot to include the name of French’s blog… and we forgot to link to it! It’s called IncrediblyTightShorts! […]

Tears of a British Clown or two, or four

FOS Ron Reid sends word of an article from the Independent (UK) about an upcoming series of plays on the […]

Connection migrating to larger venue?

The man behind Boston’s Comedy Connection is bugging out of his current location… maybe. There’s this, from an article in […]

Here we go again…

This time, it’s Michael Granberry, writing for the Dallas Morning News, in an interview with two-year veteran (that’s not a […]

Seeking: 1 BR, MUMBAI, CLOSE TO OPEN MIKES, PET-FRIENDLY

Will comedians be moving to India to pursue the many TV gigs there? Check out this article on IndianTelevision.com— it […]

Just For Laughs in Chicago: Just For U.S. T.V.

The real reason that the JFL folks are holding a fest in Chicago (in fall of 2009) is on the […]

The Voice of the Mountains hath spoken!

Tim Rawal, columnist for the Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times (“The Voice of the Mountains”), sets up his March 14 column, “The […]

Kid Dave Miller on Bob & Tom Friday AM

Kid Dave Miller returns to the pages of SHECKYmagazine.com today! It’s been some time since Miller composed a column for […]