Page Six on the "Funniest Reporter on the Planet" contest

Thanks to Nichelle of Chicks and Giggles for alerting me to this item in Page Six today (New York Post):

GIGGLE GRIPES

WATCH your back, Stephen Colbert. The "Funniest Reporter on the Planet" is apparently a woman named Catie Lazarus, a freelancer for the Jewish Forward. Lazarus and a gaggle of wise-cracking wags faced off at the Laugh Factory the other night in a contest judged by comics Pat Cooper, Dom Irrera and club owner Jamie Masada. Michael Maiello of Forbes and ex-Postie Gersh Kuntzman were among the giggle gladiators, most of whom, according to one attendee, should stick to print. Of course, a gathering of scribes would be incomplete without an ethics scandal: "Lazarus is also a professional comedian," griped our spy. "Is it fair that she won what was an amateur contest?"