Bill O'Reilly thinks Jerry Seinfeld and Larry King intentionally "tanked" the "Seinfeld" finale. Claims they should have done a clip show. Which they did. Oops.

Dennis Miller: "If you put your head so far up your a-- as a comedian and you're trying to convert people, you've lost your mind. It's hard enough to get laughs, much less get converts." (Salt Lake Tribune)

Kathy Griffin sues the owners of the dot.com version of her name for cybersquatting and profiting from her name.. The official site for Kathy Griffin is actually .net.

After his great appearance on the Emmys with Steve Carell, there's a lot of chatter about Ricky Gervais hosting the next Oscars. No Ricky! It's a trap!

The UK version of Funny or Die launches with the duo of Little Britain anchoring it. The American version of their sketch comedy show will premiere on HBO this Sunday.

After writing the humor book What I'd Say to the Martians, Jack Handey pens a humor essay about how frickin' hard it is to actually find a bookstore's humor section.

The New York Comedy Festival adds additional shows, including events involving Lizz Winstead, Susie Essman, John Pinette and Paul Mooney. Plus writers from The Daily Show and Conan. Fest goes from Nov. 5th to the 9th.

Russian network 2x2 pulls not only "South Park", but also "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy" after complaints from fundamentalists. The network's broadcast license is up for renewal.

Also winners at the Emmys: The Daily Show for Best Comedy or Variety Series for a record sixth time and The Colbert Report for Writing in a Comedy or Variety Series. Don Ricklers won for Outstanding Performance in the genre.

30 Rock pretty much owns the Emmy Awards, winning for Comedy Series, Actor, Actress and Comedy Writing. Still, Tina Fey used her speech to tell folks where they can actually watch the show. Sigh.

Do you write the funny? Here's five web tools to help you create it. There's still no random setup machine among them however..

Jen Kirkman: "...a lot of stuff that I’d written at the beginning of my stand-up life is actually much funnier now because I’m not so pissed off about it. (Buzzine)

Mitch Hedberg's "Do You Believe in Gosh" reached #18 on the Billboard charts in its first week of release, quite high for a comedy album.

Cheech and Chong's stand-up tour might lead into a new comedy movie. Chong: "Our Jews are talking to their Jews." The duo just performed in a MySpace Secret Stand-up show.

What kind of comedy merits archiving at the Paley Center? Now you can search the entire collection of the museum of TV and radio online. Can't watch online but hey, they got to get to visit somehow.

Hey, yesterday was Dane Cook Day in Boston! They gave the comic a signed baked bean pot and a collapsible chair. And, oh, plenty of promotion for his new movie "My Best Friends Girl", which was shot in Boston. Synergy.

For its 20th issue, Chunklet's offering an exclusive 7" record featuring Zach Galifianakis and Fiona Apple performing his song "Up in Them Guts." If you want an audio taste of the dance track, you can hear it at Stereogum.

SNL's season opener bit invented a new word: "Flirg" or "Flirj." Poehler's Hillary Clinton says she's does not like being called a "Flirj" after Googling the (non-existent) definition. Now "Flirj" is part of the Urban Dictionary.

A sixth book in the Hitchhikers Guide series is planned, seven years after the death of original author Douglas Adams. Irish children's writer Eoin Colfer or the Artemis Fowl series will pen the volume, entitled "And Another Thing..."

Paula Poundstone: "Jay [Leno] would always say to me, 'If you make fun of the Republicans, you have to make fun of the Democrats.' And I said, 'No, I don't!' If I think something is funny, I say it. If it happens that one group of people strikes me as funny more often than another, then so be it." (CantonRep)

Microsoft drops doing any more of the hyped Jerry Seinfeld spots in favor of using a John Hodgman lookalike to play against the successful Apple "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads. Yea, that's still the problem - the comedian.

The latest project of Doug Stanhope? Saving Bristol Palin from "from both a tyrannical household as well as the horrible nightmare of a forced childbirth" with a fund of $25,000.

Glenn Howerton of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia": "But none of us were in Groundlings or Second City or anything like that. [Laughs.] I don't know how we ended up doing this." (AV Club)

Zach Galifianakis cast in two comedies, one for film and one for TV. In Todd Phillips' "Hangover", he'll be part of a trio who loses the groom at his bachelor party and in HBO's "Bored to Death", he'll be a struggling comic book artist.

Maria Bamford apparently fired from the animated "Sit Down Shut Up" helmed by Mitch Hurwitz. Bamford in her blog post says, "I guess one of the Big Wigs no likee the voce de Maria Bamforia." Fox = Fools.

A comic featured in Rolling Stone's comedy issue really hated how their coverage. So they called the mag "gutless" and then sent the note anonymously. RS invites folks to guess who it is. (Mine: it's not a comic.)

The posthumous celebration of Mark Twain Award winner George Carlin will include Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Garry Shandling, Lily Tomlin, Denis Leary, Joan Rivers, Lewis Black, Richard Belzer and Margaret Cho. Lotta love there. (Variety)

Stephen Colbert will celebrate Christmas with original songs sung in duet with Elvis Costello, John Legend, Willie Nelson and Jon Stewart. Plus Toby Keith and Feist. Special airs November 23 and goes to DVD two days later

Amy Poehler will be finished with SNL in the fall. Though the article doesn't give an exact date, Poehler states "My baby drops in October and everybody's got to go out and get it."

Among the upcoming headliners for (now TBS-backed) "The Comedy Festival": Ellen DeGeneres, Jerry Seinfeld, Russell Peters, Tracy Morgan and Andrew "Dice" Clay. Nov. 20-22 at Caesar's Palace. More Info here.