comedy

In “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the Black Knight always gets a laugh by claiming that the loss of both his arms is “just a flesh wound.”  Now Powerset’s COO has left the company, its CEO is changing roles, and it, too, claims to be okay.

HBO comedy Web site "This Just In" will be closing down at the end of August, numerous sources are reporting.

MySpace is celebrating the first anniversary of MySpace Comedy, a community for comedians to reach fans and share their talent.

Just when you thought the Internet was full…Today, Comedy Central opened up an online joke school for the humor impaired. Marking yet another stop along the way to TV/Internet content integration, while taking advantage of the broadband boom and the online community meme, the all-comedy cable network's "Crash Course In Comedy" is an interactive online comedy school "for wannabe standup comedians."

Comedy Central is trying something different. The cable channel is going against the grain by taking original broadband programming from comedycentral.com and offering it to late night television viewers in its new series “Web Shows”. The weekly half hour series will air at 2 a.m. ET/PT and debut on Monday.

After demanding that YouTube remove all of its copyrighted videos last week, Comedy Central has given YouTube the okay to continue hosting video of its TV shows.

The soon to be acquired, YouTube, has received a request from Viacom to remove videos of some Comedy Central shows.

As broadband usage grows among British users, the medium will start to see comedy programming among its offerings.