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International Songwriting Competition
According to their website, “The International Songwriting Competition (ISC) is an annual song contest whose mission is to provide the […]
Are you diverse? NBC's looking for you.
Er… not quite. It’s Stand-Up for Diversity season! NBC Universal, as you know, “prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, […]
Tom Green's "Hollywood Gives You Cancer"
We have a soft spot for biographies set in Hollywood. It doesn’t matter if they’re recent or not. (One of […]
Two Jews can’t walk into a bar…
At least not in Afghanistan. Once again, a political figure tries humor in a public appearance and fails miserably. We […]
Reverse engineering jokes
We read the rest of the Institute of World Politics essay on ridicule as an instrument in the war on […]
Ray Garvey obit and services info
From the NY Daily News: GARVEY– Raymond “Ray”. On April 20, 2010. Former proprietor of Ray’s Comedy Club & Pip’s […]
Last Comic Standing tickets again
There’s another link on the Last Comic Standing Facebook page. This time, it’s for a taping that takes place Wednesday, […]
Satire and ridicule as a weapon, Pt. II
The Quotes of the Day widget on our iGoogle supplied us with this gem today: Humor is the only test […]
Ray Garvey, club owner, comedian
We have unofficial word that Borgata Comedy Club owner Ray Garvey has lost his lengthy battle with stomach cancer. We’re […]
Satire and ridicule as a weapon? Who knew?
Uh… we did. But a bunch of eggheads quoted by Agence France-Presse are getting some ink because they put out […]
From Hermosa Beach to Toluca Lake
Are there two more California-sounding place names than Hermosa Beach and Toluca Lake? We think not. Perhaps they’re topped only […]
Conan lands at TBS
It’s just across the wires. The NYT says Conan O’Brien will move into his new TV home in November. The […]
Tickets for Last Comic Standing taping
Go to the Alex Theatre website calendar page and scroll down– there are tickets for two nights available, April 13 […]
Calgary FunnyFest is ten years old
The tenth annual FunnyFest Calgary Comedy Festival is going on next month. They promise: Non-stop belly laughs with over 70 […]
We’ve been at this for eleven years…
And some folks still say that we’re just whiney… or worse. We’ve just been hipped to the latest column on […]
"Fags from Jersey"
That’s the subject line on the latest missive from Nic Roy (see posts below). The body of the email goes […]
"STAY IN JERSEY FAGGOTS"
That’s the subject line of an email we just got from “roy nic” who, we assume, is Nic Roy, the […]
Happy anniversary to us!
Eleven years ago today we launched SHECKYmagazine.com! That’s a long time in WWW years. That’s a long time in any […]
Pittsburgh Bone gone? ADDENDUM
That’s the word on the street. The club, which had a long run in Pittsburgh, going back more than 25 […]
Canadian comic sells out colleague
Well, it’s “game on” up in Vancouver. The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal continues to embarrass the entire nation (and […]
Jay Sierra, NWUS comedian and booker
Comic Sean Ottey writes yesterday: NW comedy lost a great comic, booker and wonderful guy last night. Jay Sierra was […]
Get well: Big Daddy Graham
Philadelphia musical comedian and radio personality Big Daddy Graham writes on his blog: By now you folks know I’m sick […]
Female Half seeks advice
You may have noticed that we haven’t been posting a lot lately. We’ve been busy. Very busy. And the Female […]
Ron White helping soldiers
Ron White is at it again. For the second year in a row, he’s leveraged his fame to dump giant […]
That's one way to do it
An AP article says that Conan O’Brien will take his show on the road for a 30-city tour. Sounds logical […]
Traffic, manmade and otherwise
We’re in Asheville this weekend. We passed one of those flashing road signs that urged us to tune into the […]
Spike's looking for a host
We get emails like this one: Spike TV will launch a nationwide search this week to find undiscovered comedic talent […]
Igniting laughter from a passive audience
The headline, in the University of Wisconsin- Parkside Ranger News review is the rather cumbersome “Nationally Known Stand-Up Comic Louis […]
Gawker meddles in comedy affairs again
And it’s Gawker’s Mike Byhoff… again. Byhoff is a former television video editor who now writes on the subject of […]
Ross Rumberg, owner of Rumors in Winnipeg
The article about his death is here. Funeral arrangements to be announced. The well-known owner of Rumor’s Restaurant and Comedy […]
LCS audition dates firmed up or moved
To accommodate the schedule of this season’s host, Craig Robinson (The Office, “Hot Tub Time Machine”), the producers of Last […]
Seeking footage of female comics onstage
We just got an email from FOS Bonnie McFarlane. She seeks… well, we’ll let her tell it: Dear Female Comedians, […]
Another association for comedians?
Every so often, a group or an association or a “union” pops up that purports to represent comedians or offer […]
Television killed curling
Or was that comedy that it killed? We always confuse comedy and curling. But seriously, folks: Have you caught curling […]
LCS FAQ
Abbreviation madness! Note: They are NOT acronyms… acronyms must be pronounceable. We suppose one could refer to the NBC reality […]
Minneapolis comedy weekend
We worked at the Joke Joint this past weekend. Technically not Minneapolis, but Bloomington. But always a good time. The […]
They have no shame
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse. The comedy club (and we use that term advisedly) that opened […]
The answer would be "No."
Did the Daily Show steal a joke from another comedian? So asks the Gawker.com They make the case by running […]
"Cougar" in town?
The subtitle of the Jennifer Coolidge profile in the Boston Herald trots out the cougar label. We heard that Coolidge […]
Yuk Yuks seeks comedians for Laugh Off
The Yuk Yuks people are having their annual Laugh Off, their Great Canadian Laugh Off in which they give $25,000 […]
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