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The horror– Joke-E-Oke won't go away…
Where to begin? From a recent Wired article: Karaoke is soooooo 1990s. For those who’d rather make people laugh at […]
H.O.T. Military Comedy Tour, Twenty-Nine Palms
We’d like to thank Kelley Coe and Carol Farnum, our hosts while we were on the base here in Twenty-Nine […]
Obligatory Shecky Greene reference
From the Everett (WA) Daily Herald review of Woody Allen‘s latest movie: Allen’s joke-writing recalls a different era– the era […]
DVD's killed comedy!
Just kidding, of course. This item appears in Variety: Consumers have spent more than $82 million on DVDs featuring the […]
29 Palms tonight.
Sorry for not blogging much over the past few days– we’ve been busy travelling and designing a website or two […]
Mandatory Shecky Greene reference
From an AP story on Friday night’s Vermont victory over Syracuse in the NCAA playoffs: WORCESTER, Mass. – He is […]
Reality television? Surreality television, maybe.
Just watched an episode of National Body Challenge, on the Discovery Channel, this one focusing on Jodie Wasserman, an NYC […]
Update on Letterman son kidnap plot
AP reports, at 9:15 EST, the following: A painter working at David Letterman’s Montana ranch was charged Thursday with plotting […]
"Plot to kidnap Letterman's son?"
The horror! We’re watching ABC’s Jake In Progress, (which, by the way, is very good!) and the crawl from the […]
Comedian to be extremely made over
Steve Mittleman has gone under the knife on an episode of Extreme Makeover, to air next Thursday, March 24. Check […]
The reviews are coming in…
A reader writes: Just saw “The Aristocrats” at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, TX. Exceptionally hilarious. (Believe it or […]
Again with the "self-destructive!'
Columbia Pictures has bought the film rights to playwright Seth Greenland’s debut novel The Bones for director David Mamet and […]
LA Times on Leno and gag order
As we reported here yesterday, Judge Rodney Melville has clarified the gag order on Jay Leno. Leno will be permitted […]
Judge says Leno can tell Jackson jokes
At a hearing today, Judge Rodney Melville clarified his gag order as it applies to Tonight host Jay Leno: Responding […]
Friend of SHECKYmagazine on TV Sunday
Paul F. Tompkins has landed on a television show. We aren’t paying any attention to any reviews, as we want […]
Comics need vacations, too.
The site has been neglected over the past four days. SHECKYmagazine went on vacation. Pictured above is one of our […]
50 States, 50 Shows, 50 Days
We are very envious. In what is being billed as “The Greatest String of One Nighters in the World!,” three […]
David Brenner caught using "C-word"
According to an AP story Jay Leno, who has been subpoenaed in the Michael Jackson molestation case, might be barred […]
Drew Hastings visits the Glass City
Fortunate indeed are the citizens of Toledo and surrounding area, for Mike Kelly of the Toledo Blade writes about standup […]
Newhart to be Desperate Househusband
Bob Newhart has snagged a recurring role on the ABC series Desperate Housewives. Newhart will play Morty, the estranged boyfriend […]
Standup Mag Editor Slips On 2nd Peel!
SHECKYmagazine.com readers might recall that, way back on AUG 27, we posted on this very site an account of an […]
Prisoners to get standup lessons
Tommy James sends along the following, from Ananova.com: Prisoners get comedy lessons A prison is offering criminals comedy courses. Winchester […]
Restrictions on cable? Maybe in Alaska
Of course, this will never even get anywhere near a vote: WASHINGTON (Reuters)– Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said […]
Foxx: I will see you in Poughkeepsie…
If only Halle Berry had standup comedy to fall back on. This quote is from Jamie Foxx, backstage after winning […]
Johnny Carson tribute at last night's Oscars
Among the many time-saving ideas instituted last night by Gil Cates was, it seems, a horrific compression of the tribute […]
Adam Gropman, Carb Orator!
It’s the latest Observational Humor column from Adam Gropman! Live free or diet, says Gropman: I don’t hate everything about […]
Chris Rock's Oscarcast writing crew
Special material written by: Chris Rock Lance Crouther (You’ll remember him as one of the members of the Mary Wong […]
We are soooo immature
Note, in one of the smaller signs below, the 1st Taste restaurant. (“Meet me at the 1st Taste. It’s in […]
It's official: Slate pegs Rock as a conservative
In a piece entitled “The William F-ing Buckley of stand-up,” John Swansburg, writing for Slate, says: “I can play the […]
Comedy in Afghanistan? Yes!
From a Christian Science Monitor article: KHOST, AFGHANISTAN– Mubariz Bidar would give Robin Williams a run for his money. He’s […]
Aspen moving to March? Not a chance!
Tommy James hipped us to an an item in the Aspen Times saying that resort owners in the mountaintop Denver […]
TV Guide's tribute to Johnny
While we’re not a huge fan of TV critic Matt Roush’s prose, the tribute that TV Guide ran in their […]
Standup follows us wherever we go
While gigging in Richmond a coupla weeks ago, we picked up the complimentary Richmond Guide, stacks of which grace all […]
SHECKYmagazine Editor in D.C. Examiner
Never too late for a delayed blow of one’s own horn: SHECKYmagazine.com Editor Brian McKim appears on the Op-Ed page […]
Engvall's looking to re-do your mobile home
Courtesy of Tommy James: WB is moving forward with a new project called Mobile Home Disasters with host Bill Engvall, […]
Saget in Lauderdale thru Sunday
We don’t normally herald a personal appearance (except maybe our own!), but a mini-profile of Bob Saget in the Broward […]
Mark "The Shark" Drucker
Although he wasn’t a comedian, Mark Drucker was familiar to many of the comedians who lived in or passed through […]
Comedy contest quandary! Our calm reply.
We got an email in which a readers asks: “Can an amateur ‘sell out’?” We always thought that the concept […]
Corrections, catching up…
In our Nickelodeon Funniest Mom posting, we left out the URL for Regina Smith‘s website. How unlike us. Regina, you […]
TBS greenlights Shore and Shore
Pauly Shore has finally convinced someone (in this case, the folks at TBS) to buy his idea for a reality […]
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