A week @ Borgata Comedy Club

SHECKYmagazine editor Brian McKim flanked by John DiCrosta (l) and Paul Bond in the Borgata Comedy Club green room Sunday […]

Trop to implode soon? Long live the 'Dike!

An item in Eye on Vegas: It would appear that the long rumored implosion of the Tropicana Hotel & Casino […]

Us: Seacrest says "Griffin out!"

Us Weekly reports that mean old Ryan Seacrest flexed his ever-growing muscles and bumped Kathy Griffin out of her regular […]

Canadian comics are eh?-political

Sarah Boothroyd, writing in The Ottawa Citizen (“Ottawa’s humour and politics rarely stand up together”), on the current state of […]

"Open ass, insert stick here.."

An article in the Savannah (GA) Morning News (free reg. req.) contains an account of a recent staging of the […]

Atlantic City: Who is in town?

Olympia, the young lady who cheerfully checked us in at the front desk of the Borgata apologetically warned us that […]

I found my thrill…

A CNN-IBN reporter, a vegetarian, is tasked with reporting on the best biryani in NYC, so she brings along the […]

Emerson intros American Comedy Archive

Billing it as “the first academic collection of its kind,” Emerson College is introducing the American Comedy Archives. The Boston […]

Bombing in Uganda is bombing in Seattle…

…is bombing in Cleveland, or London, or Mumbai. It is but a small paragraph in a hefty article (“Manufacturing Laughter” […]

Allan Johnson, Chicago Trib columnist, 46

Discovered this among the AP obits: CHICAGO (AP)– Allan Johnson, whose career started as a copy clerk and ended as […]

Comedy Central CD/DVD GIVEAWAY WINNER!

We have a WINNER! Stephen C. Knowles, of Beacon, NY He’s the lucky winner of Harland Williams‘s “Har-Larious,” a full-length […]

Sports comedy pilot seeks slot

According to the Daily News, comedian Paul Mercurio has produced (along with The Ben Stiller Show and Mad TV veteran […]

Tonight Show coming to a phone near you

This year’s Comdex (weren’t they just saying a year or two ago that Comdex was no more?) brings us this […]

"The New Mencken" to host Oscars '06

Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Latimes.com are all reporting that New Jersey’s own Jon Stewart will host the Academy Awards ceremony on […]

Sellout Comedy Tour is coming to town

Four comics, BT, Louis Johnson, Vince Morris and Billy D. Washington, have been packaged into The Sellout Comedy Tour, and […]

Will & Willie debuts on AM SF radio

Check out “WILL, WILLIE, WHY?”, an item on the blog Radio Equalizer, for an early review of KQKE 960 AM’s […]

Cable Guy lays cable, gets new customer

According to an anonymous source, Larry The Cable Guy, aka Dan Whitney, is expecting a child in August. Can “Git […]

"Meanyheads since 1999!"

Hop on over and read the interview with Patton Oswalt on website/chat board/portal Aspecialthing.com, in which Oswalt displays his special […]

No Applause–Just Throw Money

The Female Half of the Staff is currently reading “No Applause-Just Throw Money,” a history of vaudeville by Trav S.D. […]

2006 is here…archives are fixed.

Once again, our settings got whacky and our archives for November and December were all goofed up. They were repaired […]

"Ricky Roach" dies at 73

Actor Richard DeAngelis died Dec. 28. He played Col. Raymond Foerster on the HBO series The Wire. De Angelis also […]

DogShowUSA Contest WINNER!

We have a DogShowUSA.com contest WINNER! We’ll be sending a DogShowUSA prize package to Brad Gibson of Salt Lake City, […]

"I got your amicus curiae right here!"

AP is reporting on a study by a former SCOTUS law clerk that gauged how funny the members of the […]

AP: Hedberg OD'ed

Associated Press is reporting that Spin magazine is saying that the NJ medical examiner determined that Mitch Hedberg died of […]

Stanhope encounters Ghost of Christmas Future

Doug Stanhope‘s website stands out as one of a small number of comics’ sites that accurately captures the author’s spirit, […]

We hope this doesn't change Just For Laughs

“Group sex club patrons swinging free” reads the title of an article that’s burning up the WWW about how the […]

Xanax+fentanyl+alcohol=cardiac arrest

An item from Nov. 23 on El Paso’s KFOX-TV’s website says that Freddie Soto combined Xanax with booze and fentanyl. […]

Ferguson's monologues are exposed

FOS Larry-bob sends us word of an L.A. Times article about how those Craig Ferguson (Late Late Show) monologues are […]

Louie Anderson and the holiday spirit

Check out the small item on the WCCO-TV website. Louie Anderson hands out cash and turkeys. Giving back to the […]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah!

We’re entertaining some folks tonight. A Christmas Adam party, we call it. (Christmas Adam, comes before Christmas Eve, get it?) […]

Pic about a comic. Who wrote the script?

A sharp-eyed reader sends along the following: “THE BETTER MAN” Feature Film UNIVERSAL PICTURES 100 Universal City Plaza Universal City, […]

Gotham's Mazzilli in Post/Kindler on Letterman

Gotham owner Chris Mazzilli is the subject of a mini interview in the Dec. 19 New York Post. The last […]

Kathy Griffin dropped by E!

E! Pulls Red Carpet Out from Under Griffin (Subscribers only!) E! is dropping Kathy Griffin from its red-carpet coverage, the […]

Aha! Chappelle/Chapelle Theory!

We have smoked out the creators of Chappelle Theory… sort of. Either that, or we’ve been manipulated like one of […]

Is it possible to sue a judge?

State District Judge Daniel Sanchez has issued a restraining order against David Letterman on behalf of one Colleen Nestler, who […]

Did you know you could email SHECKYmagazine posts to a friend?

Sure enough. There’s a convenient icon just after the “s” in “Comments” at the end of each and every post. […]

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Pryor special to air on BET tonight

BET will air a tribute to Richard Pryor tonight. Check your local listings for showtimes. Says Jesse Jackson: “He would […]

Gropman's life on the F-list

Adam Gropman’s latest column, “Name Groppin’–From The A-List to the F-List With a Guy Who’s Unlisted,” is a riotous account […]

Woody Allen tries self-deprecation

Allen told the BBC that he’s dumb and he sucks as a director. In London for the world premiere of […]