Free tickets for the upcoming Comedy Central show "Important Things with Demetri Martin" are available now. Shows tape on December 3rd, 4th and 5th (6th is sold out). Get tickets here.

Adult Swim is looking for a fan to play Carl in a live action version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. They want a fan to do it. Submit your entry here.

Chicago Magazine names twelve up-and-comers in the Windy City's comedy scene. Ten out of twelve are improv folks. (Examiner)

Amazon's offering a pretty great deal, offering up to 53% off on 75 stand-up DVDs, Includes specials from Jim Gaffigan, Ron White, Daniel Tosh, Bill Burr and The Comedians of Comedy. Now to Dec. 8th.

TV Critic: Sitcoms are dead! Comedy writer: Sitcoms are alive! I'll go with the comedy writer since the critic called Desperate Housewives a comedy (which it is not).

Bob Zany: "In 1985, I actually had an album come out... after the show, I’m selling my albums to people, and a guy comes up and buys my album. Then he comes back afterward and punches me." (San Luis Obispo)

Deal may be close for Mitchell Hurwitz to write an Arrested Development film. The new bankability of Michael Cera probably helps (if he wants to do it, that is). (Hollywood Reporter)

Along with another season of her reality show, Kathy Griffin gets two more comedy specials from Bravo in 2009. Anyone she stands next too, watch out. She needs material. (Variety)

The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi shows off his feature length comedy "7 to the Palace" at the 92YTribeca tonight at 8PM. Only $12.

South Park co-creator Trey Parker says they'd probably end the show's run with a feature film. No ideas yet, as their last idea ended up as the multi-episode arc Imaginationland.

Irving Brecher, writer for Milton Berle and the Marx Brothers, dead at 94. One of the last interviews with him will be a part of the upcoming book "And Here's the Kicker."

Sacha Baron Cohen disrupts NBC drama "Medium", sneaking on set as Bruno for his upcoming follow-up to Borat. The nature of the bit (and disturbance) has not been revealed.

Susie Essman: "I don't get heckled that much. Most hecklers are men... When I'm on stage, I'm in control and I don't think men want to be humiliated by a woman. Where with other guys, it's a mano y mano thing, with me I don't think they want to go there." (AintItCool)

Jim Breuer: "Everything on HBO is in the vein of, “Bang ‘em in the ass and throw them into the cellar!”... To walk out there, not talk about pot, and just talk about what’s going on in my life... It was so exhilarating." (SF Standup)

HBO plans Sam Kinison biopic "Brother Sam", based on the book by his brother Bill Kinison. The network had a long relationship with the stand-up, including producing his first hour special "Breaking the Rules."

Seth Rogen producing a comedy set in a "pornography store" for Showtime. How many jerk off jokes can one man write?

Sarah Silverman getting a book deal. Will pen a book for one of the three Harper Collins imprints. Describes as a book of comedic essays "just like Tina Fey." Fey has not published her book yet.

MADtv cancelled. Despite making some stars (including Nicole Sullivan, Frank Caliendo and Bobby Lee) the sketch show struggled in the shadow on SNL for 14 years. It may survive off Fox. Exec producers want to take the show to cable.

New in Stores: On DVD, Katt Williams: It's Pimpin' Pimpin' and a 2-disc "ultimate" version of Buster Keaton's "The General". On CD, Gilda Radner's 1980 album "Live from New York."

Patton Oswalt will be live blogging the election returns for Comedy Central's Indecision 2008 site. Visit this link at 7:30E | 4:30 P to catch all of his punditry!

The Farrelly brothers will write and direct a "Three Stooges" movie. A longtime dream project for the pair, they were working on the script as far as back as 2004.

ABC may pickup the cancelled-by-Fox "King of the Hill." Already will air Mike Judge's "Goode Family" midseason. Adding "King" would create an animation block.

Lisa Lampanelli says the difference between her upcoming HBO sitcom about a comic who inherits a comedy club and Pauly Shore's reality show "Minding the Store": "This one has someone in it who's talented."

Chris Rock rallies for Obama in Tampa. Claims he can't do what he normally does but then says: "you want somebody who can relate to what you have to say. Like if I have problems getting laid, I wouldn't call Brad Pitt cuz he wouldn't know what I was talking about."

Women-centered sitcoms thriving (or is that surviving?). Both Samatha Who and Kath & Kim have been picked up for full seasons by ABC and NBC respectively.

Tina Fey's multiple appearances as Sarah Palin on SNL are credited with helping her sitcom 30 Rock with reaching its highest ratings ever. Hopefully they'll stay for the great writing and brilliant acting.

Amy Sedaris working on a show for Fox. Stranger with Candy co-star Paul Dinello will co-write and direct and David Letterman's Worldwide Pants is producing. The premise? Still to be revealed.

The 13th season of King of the Hill will be its last. Fox won't renew the animated show. Mike Judge had already moved on to "The Goode Family", a mid-season replacement at ABC.