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How not to heckle, a handy guide.

The superb 90s sketch show Absolutely is finally getting a complete DVD release. Hurrah!

It’s just simple science. Superbad > Anchorman > Talladega Nights

Excellent segment on This American Life about The Onion’s writing room. Skip about five minutes into the episode to find it.

Stewart Lee’s essay on only needing, or *wanting*, 7,000 fans.

Fast-paced stand-up and sketches from BBC Radio 4. The great thing about this format is if you don’t like an act, that’s fine — there’ll be another one along in a minute.

I’ve seen some of these, I think.

I agree with all of them, except I never found Jim Carrey funny to begin with.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone hint that the season premiere of South Park is so controversy-prone, they can’t reveal its topic in case it gets pulled. Also coming soon: Cartman as Jack Bauer in a 24 spoof.

Christopher Guest is to direct the pilot of the US version of “The Thick of It”. Very cool.

The creators of Jerry Springer The Opera are composing five 30-minute operas for the BBC, based on TV shows like Question Time and Wife Swap.

Small start-up producing reasonably-priced stand-up comedy DVDs from comedians who aren’t mainstream enough for high-street stores. Starting off with a set the splendid Stewart Lee. Ordered!

Ignore the shit headline, and you get a pretty good analysis of why Borat, Ali G, et al are so gut-wrenchingly funny to some, and just plain nasty to others.

Mitch Hurwitz’s new project is a US port of the low-key British political sitcom “The Thick of It”.

NBC’s commissioned six episodes of the sitcom “Nobody’s Watching”, after the rejected pilot garnered good reviews on YouTube.

The first two “webisodes” of The Office are up now.

NBC have posted a preview of Tina Fey’s new sitcom, 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan, Rachel Dratch and, oh yes, Alec Baldwin co-star. Looks good based on the three minute highlights reel.

The programme for this year’s Fringe is out. Now I just have to decide what I want to see when we’re in Edinburgh in August. Decisions, decisions…

Incredible story of how a fan bought the DVD rights to the excellent, but forgotten, BBC sitcom “Joking Apart” (written by Stephen Moffat of Press Gang and Coupling fame). I only caught a couple of episodes, but loved it, and can’t wait to buy this.