Mike Judge making a new film comedy with Jason Bateman entitled "Extract", about a down-on-his-luck worker. Hopefully his new studio Miramax isn't another real-life Idiocracy.

You wouldn't know it from watching NBC, but Scrubs is ending its run on the net. But the show is still in production for another season, this one on ABC.

Jerry Seinfeld files to get his domain name from a squatter and the squatter caves pretty much instantly. Many "master of his domain" puns follow.

Forget Clinton vs. Obama, who do young people prefer more Stewart or Colbert. Stewart edges Colbert generally, but Colbert gets the ladies.

Baby Mama bests Harold and Kumar at the weekend box office. With Forgetting Sarah Marshall, three of the top five movies for the weekend were comedies.

Christian Finnegan announced his first stand-up comedy DVD will be released in late summer or early fall of this year. The hour special will be all-new material and include "lots of goofy extras."

The upcoming Just Comedy conference will feature a conversation between father and son directors Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman. Jason Reitman will also present a master class in filmmaking on July 16.

Jeff Garlin will film a stand-up special at Chicago's Second City. The special apes May 12. Bob Odenkirk will direct.

Reportedly, a deal is done for who will replace Conan O'Brien on Late Night. Who is it? Jimmy Fallon. I know. I know. Try and keep an open mind...

As web video gone TV, Human Giant tips off Wired on the best comedy on the web that should be on TV. Includes Fatal Farm, Derek and Simon, Wainy Days, Tiny Hands and Jake and Amir.

Maria Bamford wants to know your size. She's got an awesome new T-shirt design and wants to order the right amount for her fans. Tell her your size here.

Full episodes of Seinfeld available for free on TBS.com. But only four at a time and only for PC users, because they use the DRM version of Windows Media Player.

Bill Cosby will take part in Robert Townsend documentary "Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy", based on the book by Darryl Littleton Doc will also include Chris Rock and Paul Mooney. (HR)

Jose Simon, the founder of the San Francisco Comedy Day, dies. His friend Robin Williams called him the "Chicano godfather of comedy."

Canadian South Park fans are no longer SOL, they too can watch free full episodes on the web. By end of May, all 174 episodes of South Park will be available for free online for embedding and remixing.

Talking about Chris Farley, Chris Rock calls the infamous Chippendales sketch "one of the things that killed him." You can see the accessory to murder here.

The SNL-player-incubating Groundlings head to the web. Will make 50 webisodes for Sony with the goal being exposure for troupe members, not profit.

Eddie Izzard on technology and comedy: "I never used to research anything. I used to let research come to me... Now you can say, 'Sharks, how do they work?' Then you go online and find out that they haven't evolved in 2 million years—which means they're very happy where they are just killing and killing." (Newsweek)

Montreal Gazette suggests Just For Laughs bring Human Giant, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Patton Oswalt, Rob Riggle, Sarah Silverman and George Carlin to this year's fest. Just For Laughs announces the lineup next week.

Doug Benson on making pot funny: "I either have to talk about my own personal experiences with marijuana, or things that are happening in the world of weed.. there's really only so much you can do about pot: 'Memory loss. Munchies. Thanks for coming!'" (AV Club)

Find Judd Apatow's movies to be a little cookie-cutter? You will appreciate this "Make Your Own Judd Apatow Movie" article. Also, you are probably wrong.

Fawlty Towers still getting the online nerd luv as it tops a MSN survery about most iconic comedy made to coincide with Sunday's BAFTAs. The show got 30% of the vote.

"Lucky Louie" couple reunited for CBS sitcom. Louis CK will rejoin TV wife Pamela Adlon for a new show about a couple with too many damn kids (if you listen to C.K.'s stand-up, you know that one kid might be too many.)

Ricky Gervais will perform three minutes of never before heard stand-up in the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto IV. Gervais can be found in Liberty City's comedy club and perhaps in one other as-of-now secret location. (Games Radar)

The video "Sherlockbot & The Case of the Purloined Piggybank" won the YouTube Sketchies II contest. Waverly Films, the makers of the video, received $40,000 in cash & video equipment.

Kathleen Madigan still at work on a documentary about female comics. "We've got a lot of interviews taped, but it's hard to get anyone to fund it, or promise to show it. But I know it's going to happen." (St Louis Times Dispatch)

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg will make a third film in their indirect-parody style. The follow up to Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead is tentatively titled The World's End

A semi-reunion of Arrested Development in the offing. Mitch Hurwitz is bring on Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Henry Winkler as voices in the upcoming animated Fox comedy "Sit Down, Shut Up." OK, so it's not the same thing.

Susie Essman held an auction at The Night of Too Many Stars for a walk-on part for an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, suggesting there will be one more season of the semi-improvised HBO sitcom.

Britain attempts to attract comedy nerds with Britcom tourist locales like the Fawlty Towers Inn and the Linton Travel Tavern of Alan Partridge.