Mainstage to open in Seattle

We’re excited. The Mainstage Comedy and Music Club is opening in Seattle and The Male and Female Halves of the […]

Talk of resurgence on NPR

National Public Radio has, for the second time in a couple of weeks, turned its attention to standup comedy. This […]

"Hi, we're the Slowskys!"

We’re in our new SHECKYmagazine HQ now… a scant 1.25 miles and one municipality away from the old HQ. We […]

Visit from G-ville's own Skinny White Comic

Can’t post long… making the transition between apartments… we can say that we had the pleasure of meeting David Lee […]

McDonald's false advertising?

We’ve had it up to here with McDonald’s and their latest ad campaign– Any size coffee for 69 cents. You’ve […]

Madonna sticks up for comics

Madonna, hodling forth on the Rosie O/Donald Trump fight, said the following (and we’re paraphrasing, but only slightly): I think […]

O'Donnell gone? Not for another six months.

Roger Friedman of Fox News is reporting that Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View. Actually, Fox News is reporting that […]

Male Half on All Things Considered UPDATE

Sorry for the late notice, but the Male Half of the Staff is featured in an interview on All Things […]

SoCal here we come

We’ve bought the tickets, so there’s no turning back! We’re actually going to visit Los Angeles next month. (Folks in […]

Mary Lynn Rajskub in Parade

To promote next Sunday’s premiere of 24, in which she plays “computer genius Chloe O’Brian,” Mary Lynn Rajskub is interviewed […]

Jordan Carlos in the WashPo (CORRECTED)

Jordan Carlos (or “Stephen Colbert’s Black Friend,” as he is known to hundreds of thousands of Colbert Report viewers) guested […]

Funny female seeks audio of funny females

From comedian Amy Anderson comes the following solicitation: I’m currently working on a new radio project that gives exposure to […]

Vote early, vote often

Comedy Central is having a Standup Showdown in which they serve up the top 100 comics– “100 COMICS. ONE TITLE. […]

Smokin' Aces hits the theaters Jan. 26

Not sure why Universal would want to change it, but… On August 13 of 2005, we posted about how Joe […]

Fired! by Annabelle Gurwitch

“Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized and Dismissed,” is a collection of humorous essays about getting canned from Tim […]

Happy New Year from SHECKYmagazine!

Is Bill Hemmer toasted? (We think he just proposed getting a $2,000 hotel room with Julie Banderas!) And when did […]

Benefit for Paul Rudeen in May

Jim Blumenfeld writes: I am pleased and excited to announce that the “Paul Rudeen Benefit for MADD” show will be […]

Jay Wendell Walker checks in

This year’s San Francisco International Comedy Competition winner, Jay Wendell Walker sent us the following: Can’t thank you enough for […]

"Pleasant & Gross" hits the street

That’s right, Brian McKim and Traci Skene have produced their very first audio CD– 66:41 of hilarity! We thought that […]

Edwards in for '08– Frank King celebrates

Standup comic Frank King, who bears a striking resemblance to ’04 vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, has at least another year […]

Gallagher sued for breach of contract

An AP article says that a Florida firm is suing Leo Gallagher. We’re not exactly sure why from reading the […]

The Top Ten Comedy Stories of 2006

1. Michael Richards melts down at Laugh Factory And what followed was a circus parade of various figures saying and […]

Those who exited the stage for good in '06

We’re posting again. And we went through the year of postings to assemble a list of those folks who were […]

Dan French: "Escape From LA"

One of our most popular columnists, Dan French, has surfaced. He last wrote for us when he landed a gig […]

Holiday wishes!

James Brown, 73

The hardest working man in show business has taken his final bow. Brown died this morning. Brown was performing to […]

Comedy at Philly's Electric Factory

That’s Bonnie McFarlane onstage at the Kid Chris-Mas Holiday Spectacular on Ice. The Electric Factory is just over the Ben […]

DiPaolo gets radio gig in NYC

From Radio Ink: Standup comedian, Comedy Central fave and frequent “Howard Stern Show” guest Nick DiPaolo is joining Stern’s longtime […]

Dr. Will Miller on ADD & comics

After we posted about the forensic counselor who declared that all comedians have attention deficit (“It’s official: Standup comics are […]

Boosler/HuffPo/Kramer meltdown/withering fire

Check out Elayne Boosler‘s reasoned rejoinder to the nonsense that’s pooled around our ankles since the Kramer Meltdown. The rule […]

Peter Boyle dead at 71

Peter Boyle, Ray Romano‘s TV dad for ten years, died. What comic doesn’t love “Young Frankenstein”? Boyle died Tuesday evening […]

Club owner admits Pauly Shore hoax ADDENDUM

From club owner Rob Jenkins: The Pauly shore incident was definitely a hoax. we planned it all weekend long and […]

Pauly Shore knockout a hoax? UPDATE

TMZ.com is reporting that the Odessa cops say that the whole thing’s a hoax. Of course, the press release from […]

"Hey, fuck you. He paid to be here just like the rest of us." UPDATE

According to the Defamer, the clip originally appeared on YouTube, but was taken down at the request of Shore’s reps […]

Free speech zone @ L.A.'s Comedy Union

A sharp-eyed reader has notified us that Associated Press is shooting out an article about Enss Mitchell’s declaration that his […]

Rosie in hot water

A NY Post item says that The Asian-American Journalists Association was fuming after O’Donnell mocked the Chinese language and Chinese […]

YouTube rival coming? Of course!

A Reuters item quotes a Wall St. Journal article that says that CBS, Viacom, NBC and Fox are in talks […]

Hitchens explains "Why Women Aren't Funny"

Rumpled British wit Christopher Hitchens holds forth on the subject of humor and gender in this article for Vanity Fair […]

Laugh Your Aspen Off Saturday night

An Aspen Times News article hypes Saturday night’s Laugh Your Aspen Off comedy show at Steve’s Guitars in Carbondale, CO. […]

It's official: Standup comics are sick

From a Columbus (GA) Ledger-Enquirer article by Kaffie Sledge, speculating on why Michael Richards acted like an asshole, comes a […]