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Burmese comic in the can again
It’s been in all the papers— Burma is about to get regime change from within. Or not. Thousands of monks […]
Male Half to guest on Edmonton radio show
Their MySpace profile describes Kamikaze Komedy thusly: We are Lars and Powermann, two up and coming comics from Edmonton and […]
SHECKYmagazine: Trailblazers yet again!
From FOS Don Munro comes word of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the new Shorter Oxford English […]
Last Tyrant Standing!
From a Reuters account of the speech by Holocaust-denier and budding standup comic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, comes the following priceless nugget: […]
NOLA comedy coming back
The Times-Picayune fielded this question from a reader, “Does New Orleans have any good comedy clubs, where you can have […]
"Too much laughing kills the heart"
Baba Ali is a filmmaker and part of Ummah Films, “a Muslim film company that strives to provide Halaal (Islamically […]
NY Daily News grills Dane Cook
Sean L. McCarthy, writing for the NYDN, interviews Dane Cook. It is notable because McCarthy gets Cook to address the […]
Just For Laughs, the television show
The Male Half has been stopped on the street four times over the past two weeks (twice today alone!) by […]
Cries of joke theivery from Air American
An AP item is one of the Most Viewed News Stories. It tells of an Air America radio host, Cenk […]
Living on Steven Wright Time
J. Ridewood, interviews Steven Wright for the UT Austin Daily Texan on the occasion of the impending release of Wright’s […]
"Sullen faces" at the end of the show
Kathleen Grohman, writing for the Santa Clara University undergrad weekly, gives an account of a Welcome Weekend show headlined by […]
Reep wins LAST COMIC STANDING (ANALYSIS)
It’s official. Jon Reep is the winner of this season’s Last Comic Standing. (The Male Half picked Reep to take […]
"Ya need a manager, Rock!"
Burgess Meredith was, of course, speaking of a boxer. But it holds true for many occupations, including standup comic. A […]
On to the Larry Craig Memorial Toilet!
The Minneapolis television stations are reporting that the infamous bathroom at the MSP airport where US Sen. Larry Craig inappropriately […]
Decade-long battle against sitcom continues
FOS Terry Reilly forwards a link to a syndicated LAT column entitled “The Sitcom is Dead; Long Live Hybrid Humor” […]
Seattle's P.R.O.K. nears genius
On our recent trip to Seattle, to perform in that city’s Mainstage Comedy Club, we had the pleasure of meeting […]
Jeff Garlin on youth and standup
The LAT profiled Jeff Garlin because he wrote, directed and stars in “I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With.” The […]
Schumer gets it
Amy Schumer was interviewed in the Pocono Record, on the occasion of the LCS Tour hitting the Caesars location in […]
Sitcom autopsy results inconclusive
Barry Garron, writing about television for Reuters, reviews the new Fox series Back to You. And now, our favorite paragraph: […]
Comics make Stroupe movie
It seems there are a lot of comics making movies these days. We decide to create a group on MySpace, […]
Comic wins Vick notes on eBay
From AP: A television writer and producer paid $10,200 for what an animal rights group said are notes from football […]
COMEDY CLUB LIST! 80 changes and counting!
It’s Friday! We’re making our weekly plea to help us revise the Comedy Club List! We’re keeping up with the […]
Paolo Nutini at the TLA
The Female Half was surfing the internet yesterday morning when she responded to a MySpace bulletin offering free pairs of […]
Venerable venue vivified in Balto CORRECTION
Marc Unger emailed us to stress that he is not one of the owners of Magooby’s, though the article (and […]
Open mike plays in Peoria
Dan Conlin, quoted in the Peoria Journal Star article on the Jukebox Comedy Club’s open mike night: “If a comedy […]
XM to Unmask comedians.
A press release from XM Satellite Radio trumpets their new comedy series that will feature one-on-one interviews with comedians. George […]
BBC radio dust-up
Roger Cox, writing in The Scotsman, examines the questions raised by a recent issue involving a comic and the second […]
Last Comic Standing: Episode 13 ANALYSIS
Gerry Dee GONE! They broke the bad news to him and he wept and choked out some sort of statement […]
Big Move… to Hong Kong?
Paul Ogata onstage at TakeOut Comedy in Hong Kong It has been some time since SHECKYmagazine readers have had the […]
Stewart to host Oscarcast
So says the NYT. Now we must put up with dim bulbs like Nikki Finke slagging Stewart every few weeks […]
Lou Marks, comedian, 87
FOS John Kensil alerted us to the Philadelphia Daily News obit. LOOKING at Lou Marks you knew he couldn’t be […]
Should Comedy Central do a Comedy Awards?
Certainly they should. Somebody should. There hasn’t been a comedy awards show on television for a long time. For 14 […]
Griffin remarks to be edited from Emmycast
Life on the D-list just got a little hotter: “Kathy Griffin’s offensive remarks will not be part of the E! […]
HBO to sling Andy Kaufman Award
Head over to the MySpace site of the Andy Kaufman Award to find out sketchy details on this year’s competition. […]
Get tickets to LCS tapings, roast
SHECKYmagazine columnist and FOS Paul Ogata found the following on the On Camera Audiences website: On Wednesday, September 12th we […]
"Hope I die 'fore I get old…"
The UK Guardian reports on a study by British scientists who found that the rockstar lifestyle is bad for one’s […]
Last Comic Standing: Episode 12: Analysis
Amy Schumer GONE! Somebody in the PR department at NBC or at Mohegan Sun goofed up! (And before you send […]
Strange objects in the can?!?
The Male Half found a shelf-load of Brooks-Eckerd brand peanuts (“Party Peanuts!”) at the Eckerd down the road. They’re switching […]
Kansas City bursting with standup
Brian McTavish’s feature article on the sudden wealth of standup comedy clubs in Kansas City and surrounding area is thorough, […]
Seinfeld: Standup scene "pretty good"
In addition to all the usual huge names (Rock, Seinfeld, etc.), the organizers of The Comedy Festival (the HBO one, […]
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