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The Halves to Co-Host @ Detroit Fest
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
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What happens at SHECKYmagazine HQ…
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Steve Dacri, magician
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Where the wind comes sweeping down the plane UPDATE
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Drugs, Disease and Death: A Comedy
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“You have to be saved from the ego.”
There’s a spirited debate going on in the comments. We goofed up and forgot to approve a comment by comedian […]
NYT says, “Funny=Money”
And then, a few paragraphs later, they say that funny doesn’t equal as much money as it did in the […]
2010: The year in review
What a year it’s been… for standup comedy and for us. LENO VS. CONAN Folks chose sides. We offered a […]
Steve Landesberg, comedian and actor
AP is reporting that Steve Landesberg died at age 65. A lot of folks knew him as Det. Arthur Dietrich, […]
Back on land
We’re back. We’ve been… pre-occupied. The reason has been alluded to here and there– our attempt to prep for and […]
92nd St. Y wants it both ways
Last week’s appearance by Steve Martin at New York’s 92nd St. Y was a “disaster,” according to the New York […]
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our readers!
We are still in the desert. We’ve had an interesting year. An, as we anticipate a move, our future is […]
Wandering in the desert
This afternoon, we’ll be moving from HCH (that’s Hooter Casino Hotel, for all you rubes) to the Alexis Park Hotel, […]
We attended “Long Story Short”
We’re in Las Vegas right now. It’s chilly! We landed just after noon on Wednesday. Just 20 hours earlier, we […]
Do you have a great opener?
Do you have a great opener? Not an opening act… but a great opening line. It seems to loom large […]
What to do when they yell, “Opt out! Opt out!”
The WWW is crackling with reports of abuses by the TSA. A pilot for ExpressJet, Michael Roberts, was singled out […]
Baum says, “I’m half of Ted L. Nancy!”
There’s a book that’s been selling briskly for a decade or so called “Letters from a Nut”. It’s authored by […]
Mike Veneman, standup comic, teacher
Mike Veneman was attending Kent State nearly a quarter century ago, heading toward a Ph.D with the intent of becoming […]
Bob Hope for Chrysler
The Male Half trash-picked an old football program from the Saturday, October 12, 1968, game between University of New Hampshire […]
Chrissy Burns, comedian
Christine “Chrissy” Burns, was born in Cleveland, OH, and based in Ypsilant, MI. She died of a heart attack at […]
Misty, water-colored memories
We were in Hilton Head up until Sunday night (working at the Hilton Head Comedy Club), but our minds were […]
It’s a British study…
… so maybe it doesn’t apply to Yanks. Scientists at the University of Glamorgan found that men and women begin […]
Free WiFi for flying comedians
The airport in Walla Walla offers free internet access. As does the airport in Yuma. Other major airports that are […]
Standup and ‘toons collide
We’ve been getting a lot of compliments on our cartoonified likenesses (see above) since we started using them as our […]
Princeton comes out for Last Comics Standing
Miserable weather didn’t keep us (or a healthy crowd) from showing up at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre to hang out with […]
Shecky (Greene) enters the digital age
When we were in Vegas last week, we ran into David Drozen, the head of Uproar Entertainment. He told us […]
Good night and good news!
By now everyone knows that Rick Sanchez has been canned by CNN. Sanchez is the real-life Ted Baxter-ish anchor who, […]
Stanhope on “scrip-heads”
In a post entitled simply “Giraldo,” Doug Stanhope recalls the last time he encountered Greg Giraldo. My story about being […]
Paul Lane, Des Moines Funny Bone proprietor
We hear that Paul Lane died yesterday of a heart attack. The Des Moines Register has an obit, with a […]
Cleveland comic needs good vibes
Mike Veneman is professional comedian who is based in Cleveland. He’s been around for over two decades and is also […]
Greg Giraldo, comedian and actor
It seems that, this time, it’s real. It is a tremendous loss for the comedy world. The Wikipedia entry hasn’t […]
This week is lasting forever
We decided to chill out around one of the three Alexis Park pools yesterday reading. (The Female Half is reading […]
A heartbreaking post of staggering genius
We were awakened this morning (we’re in Vegas, on PDT) with a text asking if we knew what was going […]
Victory in the desert
Ladies and gentlemen: Your World Series of Comedy winner, Andrew Norelli (Pictured above). The winner gets 37 weeks of feature […]
Vegas spins out of our control…
…or does it? We fled the Alexis Park last night. (Yes, we know… an entire day– Tuesday– is missing. We’ll […]
We’re at the Alexis Park… and so is… Gallagher?
And we’re sure it’s Gallagher I! (He’s among the many who were milling about this afternoon!) We flew in last […]
Comedy in the Motor City
We performed at the Comedy Castle in Detroit (Royal Oak, to be specific) and, as always, it was a superb […]
There’s 26:05 we’ll never get back
When you’re teaching comedy and you’re invoking Nelson Mandela, something has gone horribly wrong. From what we can piece together, […]
CINP Part 4
Comedy Is NOT Pretty, or CINP is the author of the xtranormal video series Standup Comedy Is NOT Pretty, Parts […]
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