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Cop suspended from day job
From the New York Post: A New Jersey cop who moonlights as a comic has been suspended without pay for […]
Romano tour flick at SXSW
It’s called “95 Miles to Go” and it’s at the South By Southwest fest in Austin. Sketchy details (from the […]
GUEST SET: Nile Seguin on anxiety
Nile Seguin is a Toronto-based standup comic who has written for TV and has been around the JFL block more […]
Hecox on speed dating!
Doug Hecox, Writer of Wrongs, tries speed dating as a last resort. In his latest column, “Four Minutes To Fame,” […]
Just For Laughs showcase dates
From the JFL website, the remaining showcases throughout most of the English-speaking world: Montreal showcase * Friday, February 10 at […]
Ron White quizzed in NYPost
FOS John Kensil sent us the URL for a New York Post interview (free reg. required) of FOS Ron White. […]
Actor Al Lewis, 82 (Corrections)
No mention of a connection to standup comedy is made in the obit of Al Lewis, who co-starred in the […]
Breslin on contests, XM, the future
Jim Slotek, writing in Jam! Showbiz, interviews Yuk Yuks Grande Fromage Mark Breslin on his Laugh Off comedy contest and […]
Speaking of crass opportunism…
Jason Budjinski, writing a tease of an upcoming theater event in a Florida alterna-rag, has this lovely lede: When we […]
Chapelle/Chappelle on Oprah in 40 minutes
Watch it… or just read this.
Charlie Goodnight's sold
One of the “Ten great places to sit down and watch standup,” according to the April 1, 2005, USA Today […]
Last Comic Standing auditions (Addendum)
From NBC.com: FEBRUARY 21 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Improv 8162 Melrose Los Angeles, CA 90046 FEBRUARY 27 Tempe, AZ Tempe […]
Internet cast about comedy
From Ralph Vincent comes word of his internet radio show “focusing on the L.A. underground comedy scene.” Tonight, my online […]
A roast… with a gag order!
From a NY Post item on an upcoming roast of Michael Jackson’s molestation trial attorney Tom Mesereau: Roasters have been […]
Video iPod users grow up
Andrew Wallenstein writing in the Hollywood Reporter (“Laugh tracks standing up on iTunes”) says that– whaddya know?– standup comics are […]
Bash the new face of variety?
From Hollywood Reporter (“Fox orders comedy, drama pilots”) comes word that Fox is cooking up a variety show. Bash, shooting […]
Sirius channel to feature Blue Collar comics, others
Yahoo!/Reuters/Hollywood Reporter is reporting that: Sirius will produce and program the new channel in partnership with Parallel Entertainment, which represents […]
Fiona Apple and guerilla marketing
Of course, just by mentioning the video for the single from Fiona Apple’s latest CD, we participate in their little […]
CD Giveaway! We have our winners!
Three lucky SHECKYmagazine readers have won Ron White‘s new CD, “You Can’t Fix Stupid!” We would like to congratulate Tran […]
She's funny! I'm outta here!
FOS John Kensil alerted us to an article in the British newspaper, The Independent, ” Why men don’t fancy funny […]
Is that your interface…
…or did your neck throw up? As comedians, and as comedians who run a website, we constantly seek to determine […]
Comedy Central content peddled via iTunes
Over the cybertransom comes a press release from Comedy Central about how… …COMEDY CENTRAL is launching on iTunes today, with […]
"I just want you to knowthat cursing sells."
From an interview with Jim Gaffigan in the Iowa State Daily: To be completely honest, when I did my album […]
"…it has to be full sexual intercourse…"
Reuters is reporting that the majority of people in a study that had sex were “the least stressed and had […]
Goldthwait's movie at Sundance.
A Salt Lake City Trib article about Bob Goldthwait‘s movie. The Bobcat directed a film and it debuted at Sundance. […]
E! dumps on Dunk!
The last two paragraphs of an E! Online story written on the occasion of the release of a syndicated version […]
Comedy Central seeks World's Best Comic
Hop onto the Comedy Central website to vote for the “World’s Best Comic.” That’s right, we said the WORLD’S BEST […]
A trek to perform in The Green State
We had a blast performing at our “non-traditional comedy venue” last Saturday night, the Higher Ground in Burlington, VT. Great […]
HBO, "Luckey Louie" and Louis C.K.
“I have come to the conclusion that the making of laws is like the making of sausages–the less you know […]
Stewart honored by Soccer Coaches Assoc.
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Marc Narducci wrote in a story in yesterday’s Inky that Jon Stewart received the National Soccer Coaches […]
Norm MacDonald to focus on standup
FOS and journo Guy MacPherson, writing for canada.com, says Norm MacDonald is back on the live stage: “I’ve kind of […]
D.I.Y. at Syracuse
If you can get around the photograph (which is the size of a throw rug), there’s an interesting article in […]
And the comic joked on…
…as the Big Four shrivel to nothing on the world market, this item appears in The Detroit News: Fake newscasts […]
Comic Blair Shannon, 46
Cincinnatti Enquirer story sent to us by reader Michael Lively says that Blair Shannon was shot and killed in a […]
Sarah Silverman: Toxic conservative?
John Birmingham, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald (“It’ll be all right on the night”) confirms a pet theory of […]
"Casting" has begun for L.C.S. IV
From NBC: Casting for Last Comic Standing 4 has already begun, with talent scouts traveling to major cities nationwide to […]
Hawaii Fest postponed
A mass email from the organizer of the Hawaii Comedy Festival, originally scheduled for May 18-21 of this year, says […]
Embracing mildly disruptive technology
We have a myspace. We just uploaded it, so we only have one friend– Tommy James. (And, so far, he […]
Seeking Higher Ground in Burlington, VT!
The publishers of SHECKYmagazine.com will be performing this Saturday night (Jan. 21) at Higher Ground in So. Burlington, VT. There […]
Last Comic Standing– AGAIN!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it: BURBANK – January 18, 2006 – The Emmy-nominated series “Last Comic Standing” will return […]
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