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Boston Comedy & Movie Festival Contestants
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Sketch Armstrong's new show
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Atlantic City hosts Norm, Omy and more
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"As Phoenix Turns" A soap opera!
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Doug Hecox: D.C. market back from the dead
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Gropman in "Terrorist Bloopers!"
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The "other" New York Festival/A contest!
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Katrina evacuee/comedian Jodi Borrello
We finally got word directly from one of the NOLA comics we know: Hey Brian & Traci: Jodi Borrello here. […]
Lipton Just For Laughs tour approaches
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NYCUCF Katrina benefit OCT. 10
The New York Underground Comedy Festival will stage a “Hurricane Katrina Relief Night.” The following is a memo from NYCUCF […]
Help is on the way for NOLA
Pat Wilson, of Odyssey Entertainment in Washington, sent out a memo on the fifth. It’s making the rounds. Here’s the […]
K.C. gets a third comedy club
The Kansas City Star reports that K.C. will be a three-club city (Free reg. req.): …That’s because former Stanford’s GM […]
Durst on leaving New Orleans
Check out comic Will Durst‘s account of his harrowing departure from New Orleans on Buzzflash: Driving down Decatur street. Nothing, […]
Help Katrina survivors
The emails we’ve sent to the people we know in the hurricane-damaged area are being bounced back, but, since the […]
SHECKYmagazine @ N.Y.C. Underground Comedy Fest
For the second year in a row, SHECKYmagazine.com will host a show as part of the New York Underground Comedy […]
More Katrina relief/ Los Angeles
Anyone in the Los Angeles area wishing to donate and laugh at the same time might check this out: Join […]
Katrina benefit/Helium in Philly
Another club, offering to raise money for the folks on the Gulf Coast. If there are any others, let us […]
Balto Improv gone! Odd smell wafts from MD!
CBS affiliate WJZ’s website has a story about the closing of the Baltimore Improv this past Friday. Oddly, the print […]
There's a Gallagher II joke in there somewhere
From Associated Press: PARIS (AP) – French writer Michel Houellebecq’s new novel about a standup comic and his clones went […]
Veterans of Comedy Wars VIII @ S.F.S.U.
Press releases fly around the WWW at lightning speed. Ya gotta read each all the way to its conclusion. We […]
Comedy for a Buck in Buffalo
At least one club is pitching in to help the Hurrican Katrina victims. in an email that circulating around the […]
Dialup? It's for losers
Just kidding. The offices of SHECKYmagazine.com are finally DSL-enabled. For years, the folks who have had broadband have done their […]
A second Perrier Award?
The New York Times is the only American paper that cares a whit about Edinburgh, for better or for worse. […]
Atlanta Punchline August 2005
From left: George Lowe (Voice of Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost and Atlanta radio personality), Heath Hyche (of Blue Collar TV […]
Balto Sun gets onboard the comedy love train
Rob Hiaasen, writing in the Baltimore Sun, kicks out a top ten comedy albums of all time list in “From […]
Aristocrats, mathematics, ratios, etc.
FOS Sharilyn Johnson writes: Hey guys, Just wanted to pass this along to you– word of mouth seems to be […]
Shecky Greene has a website
Legendary standup comic and actor Shecky Greene has a website. The turning point of Shecky’s career came in 1953 after […]
Kevin James poised for eighth season
Dusty Saunders, writing in the Detroit News: Like (Ray) Romano, Jerry Seinfeld and other TV comedy stars, James came to […]
Hanging with Kid Dave Miller (Corrected)
Photo credit: Dan Zink “Let’s go flying,” Kid Dave says. He pauses, realizing he’d caught us off-guard, so he rephrased […]
Talk host bounces back…slowly
Tim Cuprisin, writing in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, says that former standup comic and, (briefly) former talk show host Michael Graham […]
Blood for oil!
A reader, Adam White, writes: Hi. I was reading about the blood drive at the Laugh Factory and it reminded […]
Mister Kelly's, a Chicago institution
For nice slice of comedy history, in this case, Chicago-style, take in the article in Sunday’s Chicago Sun-Times by Mike […]
Comedy Central Jet Lag contest
Hop onto the Comedy Central site to enter their Jet Lag Sweepstakes. The Grand Prize winner will receive four round […]
Howie Mandel: Our guide to the future?
The first few grafs of a LA Times story on Howie Mandel’s new series is fascinating. Not only did Mandel […]
200 hours of Rascals TV show on XM
According to a release from the company that is administering the licensing to the tapes of the old Rascals Good […]
Give blood at the Laugh Factory (West)
From the LA Weekly: There’s got to be a joke here: At the Laugh Factory’s Hollywood Cares Day, you give […]
Vancouver Festival gears up
If you’re keeping track of the upcoming comedy festival in Vancouver, hop onto the CanWest ComedyFest website. So far, they’ve […]
Saget chat on USAToday
A reader, Patty Wall, writes that Bob Saget did a chat on USAToday (Click it for the transcript) today. Wall’s […]
Piven to star as comedian
From the Dark Horizons website, comes this heads up: In his first proper film since “Narc,” Joe Carnahan will direct […]
Aspen info: Submissions, etc.
A sharp-eyed Doug Hecox sends this along: USCAF/ASPEN SUBMISSIONS Since its inception in 1995, the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival has […]
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