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D.C.C.F., April 12-14
The District is having a comedy fest from April 12 through 14. That’s the District of Columbia Comedy Festival. In […]
Melbourne Comedy Fest
Pack your down underwear, the Melbourne International Comedy Fest is happening through the 29th of this month. An annual event, […]
Wife Swap seeks swapping comic wives
The ABC reality show Wife Swap is seeking a family with a mom or a dad who is a comedian. […]
25 G's for Great Canadian Laugh-Off winner
FOS Randy Masters filed the following report on Yuk Yuk’s Second Annual Great Canadian Laugh-Off: The weather was unseasonably warm […]
Funniest Mom finalists announced
Nick has announced the 13 moms who will compete for the title of Funniest Mom: Vicki Barbolak, Vista, CA Brent […]
LCS UPDATE: San Antonio a disaster
Folks who attend the various LCS functions are sending in anonymous updates– gonzo accounts of what went on. We got […]
Comedy Central starts comedy school
It’s a sweet gig for Ted Alexandro. He’s the point man on Comedy Central’s Crash Course in Comedy, an online, […]
Bravo editing Griffin's specials
A NYPost article claims that… …Bravo has temporarily shelved two of Griffin’s four comedy specials that used to be in […]
Brian & Traci's excellent NASCAR adventure
In 1947, the Martinsville Speedway was “carved… out of the red clay of Henry County” in the middle of nowhere, […]
JFL Update: No Montreal show?!
The Montreal Gazette has the latest JFL news. Citing a program “overhaul,” Bruce Hills says there won’t be a Montreal […]
Associated Press quotes SHECKYmagazine.com
While driving back from a weekend engagement in North Carolina, we fielded an inquiry from Sean O’Driscoll, working on a […]
CBS to Kevin James: "Are you still here?"
Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn is the gaudy byline on an AP article about the demise of one of the most successful […]
Eight years of SHECKYmagazine.com!
Today is April 1, 2007. Eight years ago to the day, we launched the first issue (back then, this publication […]
Catskills moves south
Read the New York Times article by Jane Wollman Rusoff on the “Condo Circuit”: Here, at the height of the […]
McFarlane one of WashPo's Prime Time Women
Yet another WashPo article on women in comedy, this one authored by Michael Cavna. The premise is in the lede: […]
LCS Update: Waiting in line at Gotham
An article in the Scranton (PA) paper about a coupla Times-Trib staffers who dabbled in standup and subsequently chased the […]
Sisters are doin' it to themselves
All you need to read from the latest package of drivel from the Washington Post’s latest article on Why Women […]
American Eagle "winner" checks in
Just got the following email from Billy Horrigan, the Hi, i was just sent a link to your article from […]
Million-Hit March
We’ve been coming close here and there since August. This month, however, we finally edged over the million-hit mark. Near […]
On hype and hypoxia
Enter the twisted vortex of Aspen via Sean L. McCarthy’s Boston Phoenix article on the reception accorded Shane Mauss at […]
LCS Update: Minneapolis
Checking the email out of the office, the following came over the cyber-transom from anonymous: I don’t know if you’ve […]
Watch Eddie Griffin turf an expensive Ferrari
From $1.5 million collectible to scrap metal in a fraction of a second. Eddie Griffin performed that magic in Irwindale, […]
Dennis Miller on the radio
Variety says: Westwood One is starting a national radio show with comic Dennis Miller. Miller’s inaugural radio talker, “The Dennis […]
The 411 on 420: Totally Baked approaches
From the Totally Baked website: On April 20th the world will be watching Totally Baked: A Pot-u-mentary – A comedy […]
Harlem Comedy Festival Aug. 13-18
From the Festival’s MySpace site: Harlem comedy, has been an evolving tradition from Vaudeville to Def Jam. Some of the […]
Gaffigan to star in Arbuckle biopic
According to the Dark Horizons website, Jim Gaffigan will star in “Life of the Party,” a movie about scandalized silent […]
JFL Update: Good news for cheap bastards
MySpace friend G. Hamilton Braithwaite writes that, with the shifting of the Festival Jus Pour Rire to the Hyatt Regency […]
Soro on sorrow at Jeni memorial
I know I’m prejudiced here but honestly, there is nothing better than a room full of comedians. Especially when they’re […]
Sunday night at the Borgata in A.C.
Left to right: Richie Minervini, Gable “Dark” Most (1/2 of The Most Brothers) and Jim “Klaus” Myers, in the green […]
Brownback, Kohl smoking the pot?
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin) tried to outdumb each other in senate hearings on the matter […]
LCS UPDATE: Gotham show
From FOS Randy Masters comes the following dispatch: It was a fun night last night at Gotham Comedy Club. There […]
Calvert DeForest aka Larry "Bud"Melman
The bulletin that’s making the MySpace rounds is true, we are sad to say. Calvert DeForest, who gained fame as […]
JFL Update: Hyatt Regency lounge hours
Click here for lovingly staged and shot pics of the Hyatt Regency Montreal’s lounge. We’re somewhat disturbed that the description […]
L.C.S. Update: Montreal audition results
In the course of telling a story about how Steve Patterson blew off the evening’s show (in order to fulfill […]
Soar like an American Eagle, Billy!
Billy Horrigan has won the American Eagle Outfitters contest that we blogged about while we were waiting for our flight […]
Sandler fills in for Dave tonight
Dave had a stomach bug. Sandler was a guest. Sandler guest hosted. Todd Barry is a guest tonight also. Details […]
JFL: Bad news for cheap bastards!
We don’t know what we’re going to do! Is it possible we won’t be attending the Just For Laughs Festival […]
Clip from "Peterotica"
Carol Burnett is suing The Family Guy for $2 million. The Smoking Gun has the offending clip. Our verdict: The […]
Are your papers in order?
From the State Deptartment’s website: The Departments of State and Homeland Security announced today that the requirement for citizens of […]
Amazing surveillance story in LV Review-Journal ADDENDUM
Norm Clarke’s column from the 14th had this item: Two sources confirmed on Tuesday that the Sahara had surveillance cameras […]
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