Bruce McCulloch on KiTH vs SNL: "I mean, we're an impulsive troupe, and I remember they would talk about everything forever, all the Harvard guys. It was all so heady, and there wasn't so much performance in it." (AV Club)

If you haven't looked yet, check out this list of 50 Greatest Comedy sketches. It's a good way to waste a weekend afternoon.

Do you thrill to the adventures of Mitchell and Webb's "Sir Digby Chicken Caesar"? Here's the mp3 and lyrics that accompany his exploits. (kung fu grippe)

Judd Apatow will be honored as Comedy Person of the Year at this year's Just For Laughs Festival. The award ceremony will be part of their first industry conference "Just Comedy" which will run concurrent with the fest.

Doug Stanhope on comedy genres: "When comics have been classified, they're grouped together by monickers that have nothing to do with a type of stand-up. Black comedy, Female comics, Fat... I think we'd be far better off using the music genres of Pop, Punk, Classical, etc." (TragicLaughter)

Webby Award Nominees Announced for Humor Website, Comedy: Individual Short or Episode and Comedy: Long Form or Series.

If (OK... When) Obama wins the Democratic nomination, John Cleese will volunteer to be a speechwriter for the candidate. I can see it now: "This McCain is deceased! He is an ex-candidate!"

Rachel Dratch confesses she hasn't been up to much. The former SNL player has not had a recurring part on 30 Rock this year. She's very funny. Somebody cast her.

Mike Birbiglia's sitcom pilot gets the best cast ever, including Bob Odenkirk as Mike's brother, Rachel Blanchard (Peep Show) as his girlfriend and radio genius Phil Hendrie as his doctor(?). Just greenlight it now CBS.

Todd Barry's "From Heaven" is available as a mp3 download at the reduced price of $8.99 on Amazon right now.

Improv Everywhere pulls off the most uplifting prank ever, making a bunch of little leaguers feel like they're playing in a pro baseball game. Sweet and funny.

Kristen Schaal is one of the finalists for the Melbourne Comedy Festival's Barry Award. As Chortle points out, four out of the six nominees are female. So F-U, Christopher Hitchens.

Comic John Ramsey won the TurboTax TaxLaugh contest, receiving $10,000 and the chance to open for Jay Mohr at the Improv. Watch his set here.

Here are seven jokes that came true. Includes precognitive bits from The Simpsons, Mr. Show, The Onion, Charlie Kaufman and Chris Rock.

Lewis Black isn't the only comic holding court. Dom Irrera judges DirecTV's Supreme Court of Comedy, a brainchild of The Laugh Factory's Jamie Masada. Verdict on this trend?

New York stand-up Tom McCaffrey will be recording his first CD as the inaugural release for It Takes A Lot To Laugh Records. Taping date in at April 20 at 8PM at Pianos (for free).

This NY Post gossip item makes it sound like everybody saw Chris Farley's death coming. I'm sure "The Chris Farley Show", the upcoming book they're drew the item from, is a bit more nuanced about Farley's friend fate-seeing abilities.

Amy Poehler on getting improv right for DVD: "You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows." (AV Club)

David Letterman repeats the same monologue jokes two days in a row. A prank? Did they not land right the first day? Or just a goof up?

AOL is counting down TV's 50 best comedies. It's week one, so far they're only on 50-41.

Sasquatch Music Fest adding a comedy tent. Acts will include the UCB (w/Matt Besser & Horatio Sanz), Brian Posehn, Michael Ian Black and Eugene Mirman. The fest takes place May 24 to 26 in Quincy, Washingotn.

Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer of "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" will next parody legitimately funny movies like Superbad. Shooting for this disaster, appropriately, will take place in New Orleans.

The Harvard Lampoon parody of National Geographic is hitting newsstands with Paris Hilton on the cover and a naked natives joke below that.

On Sale Today: the book "The Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legends of Del Close" by Kim "Howard" Johnson, who talks about the difficulty in writing the book here.

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are taping the pilot for "David's Situation" on May 9th. More details to come.

Shecky claims to have the list of the twelve finalists for this year's Last Comic Standing. Well, thirteen considering God's Pottery is a duo. (BTW: Is American ready for their faux Christianity?)

The folks behind I Can Has Cheezburger have two new funny pics sites: the Demetri-Martin-esque GraphJam, which is pop culture in chart form, and Pundit Kitchen, which replaced the cats with politicans.

A look back at the genius that was Bob and Ray. The story quite helpfully provided this link to a huge archive of old radio shows from the pair.

Charlie Rose interviews a lot of comedians, but the navigation on his site stinks. So Matt Ruby of Sandpaper Suit organized and embedded them all in one blog entry. Thanks Matt.

The video where Pauly Shore said bad things about Katt Williams and other black comics was just a prank to promote his DVD "Natural Born Komics" as this subsequent video demonstrates.