April Fools' Day, 1999

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 1st, 2008

That’s when we launched SHECKYmagazine.com! Can you believe we’ve been doing this for nine years? We started out as a monthly online magazine, uploading interviews, columns and photos on the first of every month. Those early issues also included a rudimentary blog– years before the term was even coined– that contained information about contests, festivals, achievements and fluff.

In our first year, we interviewed Bob Zany, Wayne Cotter, Kip Addotta, Shelley Berman and we were the first publication to interview Triumph The Insult Comic Dog! Our early columnists included Brian Whalen, Rich Williams and Jim “Klaus” Myers.

In May of 1999, with only two issues up on the WWW, we applied for (and received) press credentials to cover the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. We uploaded five daily dispatches from Canada that July– the first-ever such coverage of the world’s largest comedy festival. And our coverage of the event over nine consecutive summers is unequaled. And our near-real-time analysis of NBC’s Last Comic Standing is recognized as the best on the web.

We look forward to providing our readers with much more of the news, analysis and snark they’ve come to know and love!

Thanks to all of you who have bookmarked SHECKYmagazine.com over the years and who have made it the place to hit on the WWW for standup comedy info and opinion!

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