Best News Ever: Andy Richter will be on board when Conan takes over the Tonight Show. He'll be the show's announcer and take part in sketches.

New DVD Releases this week: The fourth Futurama film "Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder" and the stand-up special Aisha Tyler: Is Lit

Kathy Griffin will pen a memoir for Ballantine books. Based on her Grammy-nominated album, here's a possible title: "Hey Pulitzer, I'm Over Here!"

The Razzies' big loser/winner: "The Love Guru", which got acknowledged as Worst Picture, Actor and Screenplay. That sure showed Mike Myers!

"Sarah Silverman Show" co-creator Dan Harmon is making some acceptable TV for ABC, who just picked up his pilot entitled "Community." The show is described, somewhat unexcitingly, as "Stripes" meets community college.

New Releases: On CD, Lonely Island's “Incredibad.“ On DVD, Season 2 of “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" And in Books, Eugene Mirman's “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life.”

The Upright Citizens Brigades' Matt Walsh will create and star in "Players", a sitcom for SpikeTV. He'll play a co-owner of a sports bar. The other owner, his brother, will be played by fellow UCBer Ian Roberts.

George Carlin's "It's Bad For Ya" wins the 2008 Grammy for Comedy album. An unsurprising, but not necessarily undeserved, win. It's Carlin's fifth Grammy.

Jennifer Aniston and Jason Bateman keep creepy romantic comedy tradition alive with "The Baster", where Bateman's character replaces the donor semen that will inseminate his baby-desiring best friend (Aniston) with his own. Yuck.

Carlos Mencia's invite to participate in Mardi Gras pulled after parade organizers discovered he did jokes about Katrina victims. If he says he took the jokes from someone else, would they restore his place in the parade?

IDW will start releasing definitive hardcover collections of the comic strip Bloom County in October. Each book collects two years and will include "context pages", to help readers get some of the more current events jokes.

Dom Irrera on Changing His Act: "I never thought, ‘Now I’ll move away from the Italian stuff.’ I moved away from it because I got sick of it, and if I got sick of it maybe other people would too." (Punchline Magazine)

Nominees announced in the Emerging Comics of New York Awards. Voting now open to the public. Winners announced at Comix on March 9.

Judd Apatow making a short film to be shown during the Academy Awards. It'll be part of Oscar's tribute to comedy. Instead of, y'know, actually giving any awards to one.

Max Jobrani on the Axis of Evil Tour's inflluence: "I remember reading a blog after our special aired on Comedy Central and it was on a conservative Web site. The guy actually said to another guy, 'I never knew these people laughed.'" (Boston Comedy)

Larry the Cable Guy is comin' to England to tour. Will play three dates plus one in Ireland. Will he get a better reception than Sarah Silverman? (Chortle)

David Wain on The State starting today: "We were doing this sort of run-around-with-your-own-camera-and-edit-it-yourself thing that's become absolutely the default way of doing comedy for so many in the era of YouTube. So I feel lucky that we did it a solid 10 to 15 years earlier." (AV Club)

Vince Offer of the ShamWow! commercials got his start by selling "The Underground Comedy Movie" on late night TV. Now if only guy the guys who did "Disaster Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" move on to this.

Flight of the Conchords is going on a U.S. tour in April and May. Tickets on sale now. But move fast, they say "THEY WILL SELL OUT FASTER THAN A FAST THING!"

In keeping with Jewish tradition, here's a bunch of alter kocker telling their favorite party jokes. And killing. (Sam Reich)

For his upcoming special "Isolated Incident" taping this weekend, Dane Cook is giving tickets away. Select fans who send an email will win a pair of tickets. The show's capacity has been advertised as 20, so "select" might be an understatement.

Eddie Izzard on starting stand-up: "Everyone said I was really shit as a stand-up. I was fairly shit as a stand-up There were 18 months between my first and second gig." (Chortle)

New on DVD: Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and Volume XIV of Mystery Science Theater 3000

For Bostonist, Bill Burr drives around Los Angeles, giving a tour of comedy clubs and commenting on owner/bookers Pauly Shore and Jamie Masada. Plus: basketball, standing in line and hybrid cars.

David Cross says everybody's blowing Michael Cera's comments about not doing an Arrested Development movie out of proportion. Cross states: "I respect whatever decision he makes."

Cheech and Chong didn't have to prep much for their current comedy tour. The sketches they forgot, they just looked up on YouTube. Hopefully, their stoner audiences didn't, so the sketches will all seem new! (NY Times)

A fund for helping Quebec business has given $10 million to Just For Laughs for establishing comedy festivals outside of Canada, including this summer's first ever Chicago fest.