Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey fails to show up to do the top 10 for Letterman. They do the list anyway. Funniest joke: "At First I Just Thought I Was Bipartisan" See the whole list here.

If you're on a PC, you can watch the premiere episode for the second season of "Everybody Hates Chris" here.

During official state visit by Kazakh President, Borat is turned away from White House gates. Borat also describes Kazakh PR initiative as "Uzbek propaganda."

Robert Smigel indulges love of animals by making for Fox "Animals" which will parody suburban life. Sure to be better than Father of the Pride.

Comedy Central orders third season of The Showbiz Show. David Spade "stoked" to get back on the air next February.

Kazakhstan marks $40 million for a film to rebut the fictional Borat's upcoming movie. Silly as this is, at least they're fighting art with art.

Meanwhile, as part of the NY Comedy Festival, the MTR will host a talk between creator of Triumph Robert Smigel and Kurt Andersen. Like their TrioTV Facetime interview.

MTR's Comedy Conversations: tonight at 7PM Arrested Development's Mitch Hurwitz, Bernie Mac's Larry Wilmore and Sid Caesar.

Carlos Mencia shares a story where a man in the audience has a heart attack and his friends urge Mencia to keep performing. Death preferable to beaner jokes?

YouTube gets college students a deal with NBC. Their biggest video: a variation on the knock knock joke.

Bounds of satire at college humor magazines roundup: Yale Record Pick Appropriate Targets, Please and Carniege Mellon's readme withdraws issues after Holocaust joke.

New Releases: on DVD the elaborate prank documentary Windy City Heat, on CD Demetri Martin: These Are Jokes and in Books Jimmy Carr's Only Joking.

Aaron McGruder's hiatus from Boondocks may be permanent says Syndicate. Because McGruder is Black, it's asked if he's pulling a Chappelle rather than a Larson, Trudeau, Breathed or Watterson.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone joking when they said Saddam Hussein was made to watch the South Park movie featuring him as Satan's gay lover. Nah, he was just waterboarded.

Jerry Seinfeld describes how a heckler got him kicked out of a comedy club , a story from I Killed, a collection of road stories from comics.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog's opening night act at Comix involving him molesting Sesame Street's Ernie earns the ire of CTW. They are "investigating" i.e. doing nothing but whining to Page Six.

law & Order's Dick Wolf looks to take on sitcoms. Nothing cops & courts related - first two revolve around politics and EMTs. Dun dun!

Time favorably covers 6 stand-up DVDs including Bob Newhart: Button Down Concert, Ron White: You Can't Fix Stupid and Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic

Submissions begin today in Sierra Mist's Stand-Up or Sit Down Challenge. Five perform on TBS. One gets 50 grand, development deal and own DVD.

Irish mag claims satire after printing fake nudes of Tiger Woods' wife. Please don't ruin that defense for real satirists.

Bud Light and Maxim plan the Real Men of Comedy Tour featuring Joe Rogan, Charlie Murphy and John Heffron. Tours entitled the "blank" of comedy are officially dead.

Tom Green will film his leg surgery. Which will be the next part of Tom that gets a close up?

Aspiring Brits can take a course in sitcom writing at Cardiff University. First suggestion: "Every great sitcom character in this country has had a monstrous element to them."

Will Ferrell's production company lands a comedy for HBO entitled "P.E." The show revolves a failed pro-ballplayer who returns home to teach middle school gym.

Lucky Louie cancelled. Damn.

Reviews make Jackass 2 sound more twisted than Freddy Got Fingered. More clips: The Gauntlet and The Swamp Chute (both Quicktime).

Denis Leary creating a comedy pilot for Fox about a 15-year thief who moves in with his stealing grandfather.

What does Dwight Schrute from The Office do on vacation? Check his voicemail at 1-800-984-DMPC.

XM will add a National Lampoon Comedy Radio Channel starting October 1. That's the fourth all-comedy channel on the service.

New Releases: Season 2 of The Office, Season 1 of Stella, Norm MacDonald's Ridiculous CD and the book Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists