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A reader, Bruce, writes: “How about some feedback on Pauly Shore‘s ‘Minding the Store’ comedy disaster?” Good question, Bruce. We […]
Aristocrats does "huge business"
From eonline.com comes this: The only bright spot among new releases came courtesy of a dirty old joke. The Aristocrats, […]
Vegas Sun's Laugh Lines columnist exiting
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Three cheers (at the very least) for Ralph Rivera. He’s doing something for the kids who get cancer on Guam. […]
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The body of the email, from Slade Ham, was, “…and you shall receive.” The photo below was attached. Left to […]
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In the hectic four days of J.F.L. coverage, we try to give readers an idea of what it’s like to […]
Bonnie McFarlane on Late Show Friday
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Comedia 2005 Award Winners
Sunday night they gave out awards to some of the films in the Comedia program. In the feature films section, […]
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SHECKYmagazine.com contributor Tom Ryan gets quoted in two recent Palm Beach Post pieces. The first article is a look back […]
Coming… to a theater near you: Aristocrats
Bob Tourtellotte writing for Reuters on The Aristocrats, which opens in theaters Friday: As punchlines go, it’s not that funny. […]
SHECKYmagazine Just For Laughs 2005!
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It’s Sunday evening, 9:38 PM, we’re heading south on I-87. We’re still two hours from home. How did that happen? […]
Just For Laughs 2005: FRIDAY
“How are you doing?” We were asked Wednesday night. After a moment of reflection, we replied, “Placid.” That’s right. This […]
Just For Laughs 2005: THURSDAY
It looks rather like one of those engagement pictures in the Times, does it not? Actually, it’s just that Gary […]
Just For Laughs 2005: WEDNESDAY
Seven years? Let’s see… ’99, ’00, ummm… That’s right, this is our seventh year covering the Just For Laughs Festival. […]
Just For Laughs preview
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Comics Only Poker Tournament Details!
Okay, okay, when you compare it to some of the big, fat televised poker tournaments out there today, $1,000– a […]
New columns, new content! Restored art!
In just the past few weeks, Bill Bunker, Doug Hecox and Adam Gropman have penned new columns for you, the […]
The Vinyl Word: Our Hero… Pat Cooper
From the liner notes of “Our Hero…Pat Cooper”: “Cooper was earning his living as a bricklayer and catapulted ino the […]
The end of Hollywood as we know it?
Maura Dolan, writing in for the Los Angeles Times (we got it from The Standard, China’s Business Newspaper), writes the […]
No doubt the perp had dialup
From Mosnews.com, entitled “Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered”): Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of […]
Straight.com's trove of comedy articles
After seeing our concentrated assailing of the media in recent postings (and after seeing our quote from Newhart), Vancouver journalist […]
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