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From the Feb. 5 edition of Las Vegas Weekly, comes this description of Grandma Lee on the occasion of her appearance at that city's Bonkerz Comedy Club:Grandma Lee is a sassy senior citizen who isn't ready for the retirement home just yet. She will entertain the crowd with her hilarious and unorthodox views on family, television and life in general. She'll be taking the stage along with Lisa

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Cain Lopez has died, at the age of 30, from lung cancer.Multiple tributes are popping up on status reports on Facebook, from friends of Lopez.He had been recently hospitalized, but recently released.If anyone has further details on a funeral or a memorial service, please leave it in the comments.Thanks.

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From the McAfee Site Advisor site:sheckymagazine.comWe tested this site and didn't find any significant problems.We suspect that it's only a matter of time before our domain transfer goes through and Google agrees with McAfee. (They are, after all, only the most recognized publisher of antivirus software.)

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Bruce Fine is the comic who is behind (and in front of) The Laugh Pack!-- the new show/venue in two locations in Southern California. One, in Van Nuys at the Airtel Plaza Hotel, opens July 25. The second, at the Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill, opens August 7. From the website:Bruce will produce and host THE LAUGH PACK!, a star-studded Stand-up show every Saturday night in the beautiful Lounge of

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That's Online Comedy Initiative. In this case, it's another "multi-platform-themed stand-up video challenge." Last time we checked, there weren't very many takers. The most viewed video caught 634 views. Is that good? Is that good for a contest sponsored by a website owned by a cable outlet owned by a company ranked 191st on the most recent Fortune 500 (right behind Pepsi and ToyRUs!), with

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As part of the "Penn Says:" series of videos, the large, talking half of Penn & Teller holds forth on the greatness of Shecky Greene, upon seeing the great one perform last month at the Suncoast casino. It's six minutes and worth every second.(Of particular note: Penn expresses some regret that Greene wasn't included in "The Aristocrats," something we wondered about when we saw the movie.)Take

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If you have 9:49, check out our very first episode of "Lying About: Standup," entitled, "Is It Too Soon?" in which we discuss, among other things, whether it's too soon for comics to make jokes about the death of Michael Jackson.The title of our venture is pretty obvious-- It's two people... talking about standup... while... lying about-- plus, it's got that vague, cool, double-meaning thing

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OMG! U have got to see this!It's a video posted by Lisa Corrao called, "Ivan Hernandez Gets Scolded by Old Ladies About a Hitler Joke." It features Ivan Hernandez (obviously!) and Dave Kinney and it's shot and edited by Lisa. Call it comedy-related reality video. It's self-explanatory.

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There aren't many impressionists around. When we were growing up, there seemed to be enough to have one on Merv's show at least once a month. And once a month on Tonight. And an occasional appearance on Steve Allen's show or on Ed Sullivan. Now, our impressionists are almost limited to weak, makeup-dependent turns on Saturday Night Live by sketch comics who often barely approximate the

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Google has very tight security. Understandable, we suppose. So, when some sort of suspicious software is inserted into a website (with or without the knowledge of the site's owner), the Google alarms and whistles go off and, before you know it, your site is being labeled as some sort of internet pariah.About 36 hours ago, we made a "reconsideration request" to Google, asking them to rummage

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We had Saturday off, so we motored up 295 to hang out with Bonnie McFarlane (who was headlining Princeton Catch A Rising Star). We brought along former Rascals Cherry Hill GM Jason Pollock. And we were joined by comedian Rabbi Bob Alper-- a longtime reader/supporter of SHECKYmagazine.com-- we had never met the Alper, but we've corresponded with him for what seems like forever; it was great to

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We're in the middle of transferring SHECKYmagazine.com from our old server to a new one. In the meantime, Google is essentially blocking the site with a "This site may harm your computer" message. Google, we suspect, is being overly cautious. Apparently, there are a lot of servers out there with so-called "badware." (It might be part of this botnet thing we've been reading about over the past

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The Jerusalem Post interviewed "Loud Fast Jews," the super group formed by four punk rock legends Handsome Dick Manitoba of The Dictators, Tommy Ramone of the Ramones, Blondie's Chris Stein and Patti Smith Group member Lenny Kaye, on the occasion of their appearance at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research last week.The four talked about their Jewish heritage and their influences:Indeed, all

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The PWTorch website (that stands for Pro Wrestling), says that WWE legend King Kong Bundy is working on a career in standup comedy. They cite a story in the Poughkeepsie paper.Bundy says he's doing stand-up comedy across the Northeast U.S., including New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. "I'm laying pretty low. I'm starting my standup comedy. I'm getting back into that now," Bundy told Phil

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Comedian Steven Crowder, writing for Steven Breitbart's BigHollywood website, says that "Republicans need to grow a sense of humor."As proof, he cites the reaction to three recent incidents involving very public joke-making that didn't go over so well.Exhibit A, Crowder says, is the reaction to President's Special Olympics gag during his appearance on Jay Leno's Tonight. Exhibit B is the offense

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A sharp-eyed reader sent us the link to the Chicago Trib's rundown of the roster for the inaugural Just For Laughs fest in the Windy City. Click through the slide show and the third face you see is that of Andy Dick.The photo that the Trib chose to use the pic from the Murietta (CA) police department-- it's the photo from when he was charged with four misdemeanor counts of battery, public

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Through all of this, we've been monitoring Twitter and Facebook and blogs. And here and there, we've seen some folks express the opinion that Dave shouldn't have had to apologize.We concur. But we also acknowledge it was necessary.It's an important distinction to make.Does he absolutely have to apologize? Hell, no. He's a comedian. He could have gone down, boots on, comedy guns blazing,

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It would have been effective, had it been Apology Number One.Not so sure it will work, seeing as it's how it's Apology Number Two.It went over three minutes. However, since it was not just an apology for the initial offense but an apology that had to negate the outrage compounded by the initial apology, it was a bit lengthier by necessity.It was certainly better than the first one.Will it quell

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From TVWeek.com, comes the transcript of a second apology, dropped into tonight's taping of Late Show:All right, here - I've been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week - it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you know about it, maybe you don't know about it. But there was a joke that I told, and I thought I was telling it about the older daughter

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We are having trouble with search engines. Some sort of "badware" is on our internet service provider's server. There's no harm to you, of course, but it is wreaking havoc with our readers' ability to search through our archives.We have temporarily taken down the Google SearchSite toolbar at top of the center of our center column. Once the problem is solved, we'll put it back up.In the

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Since posting about David Letterman's apology, a lot has happened.Tomorrow, there's a rally scheduled in Manhattan to exert pressure on CBS to fire Late Show host David Letterman. Should he be fired? It's not a question of "should." It's a business decision. And that decision most likely rests with Les Moonves, president and COO of Columbia Broadcast System.Moonves will no doubt consider

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We were unaware of the contest that Comedy Central was sponsoring until we saw Tim Slaigle pumping his video via Facebook.It's the Open Mic Challenge.Welcome to the Jokes.com Open Mic Challenge! Are you an aspiring stand-up comedian? Show us your bits for the chance to appear on Comedy Central. Check back every month for a new challenge!We notice that there's not a whole lot of comments or views

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... or just a sputter or two before it dies down?We were alerted to a column in today's New York Post, written by Andrea Peyser, about how, while David Letterman was telling jokes that riled up a good chunk of the nation... His struggling brother up the dial, Conan O'Brien, on Thursday night was having a blast slurring women and Jews-- two groups that may constitute the last permissible

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We heard from FOS Jason Pollock that Jake Johannsen was in town, just across the river at Helium.This set off a fortunate chain of events.Before that, we heard that Lord Carrett and Nick Cobb were headed down the NJTPKE to do a private party in Center City Philadelphia.And Pollock told us that he was headed over the bridge Friday night to catch the MST3K live show at the Trocadero (featuring Joel

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There seems to be some uncertainty as to whether Best Week Ever is gone for good. The blogosphere is reporting, in one or two places, that it's gone. But VH-1 is saying it's gone until January 2010 but even they're not sure. But Tompkins himself, via his Twitter account, is saying:Thanks to everyone who stayed with Best Week Ever with me as the host. Please watch tomorrow night. I am not

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