CULTURE BUZZ: Entertainment Weekly bestowed the title upon 25 funny fellas and ladies. Although most faces are familiar, some may surprise you. Sorry, Boosler , maybe next year…

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The Best Links:

1. The 25 Funniest People in America According To Entertainment Weekly
2. Diablo Cody, One of the Funniest People in America? Honest to Blog?!
3. Stereogum’s Redux
4. The 25 Least Funny People In America According To Defamer

CULTURE BUZZ: Their sketch show on the BBC, That Mitchell And Webb Look , have earned them hardcore fans on both sides of the pond. Monty Python has found a welcome replacement in the cleverly absurd blokes who, incidentally, also star in the UK version of the Mac-vs.-PC ads. Bloody brilliant! (Also be sure to check out Peep Show , another Mitchell and Webb show we highly recommend.)

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The Best Links:

1. That Mitchell And Webb Site (Get it? Like “Web site?”)
2. “They’re Going Down in the Great Book of Comedy,” Says Alex Balk
3. You Don’t Have to Like British Funnies to Like Mitchell and Webb
4. Watch “Lager Beer”
5. Listen to an Interview With David Mitchell
6. Watch “Write This…or That…or Maybe…”
7. Watch “Doctor And Ice Cream Tester”
8. Somebody Thinks Mitchell and Webb Have the #2 Best Show On British Television!
9. The BBC Commissioned Mitchell and Webb for a Third Series! They’re Unstoppable!

MOVIE BUZZ: British comedic chameleon Steve Coogan’s movie comes out on top at Sundance, garners buzz and investors. With the rising success of quirky comedic actors like Michael Cera , all Coogan needs to do is steer clear of Carlos Mencia and he could very well become the second funniest person in America.

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The Best Links:

1. Focus Features Acquires ‘Hamlet 2’
2. The Breakout Star Of Sundance 2008 Is … Steve Coogan?
3. Focus Nabs the Hottest Title at Sundance
4. I Couldn’t Stop Laughing Uncontrollably!
5. The Big Cinderella Story at Sundance is a Script that Took Five Years in to Write
6. Steve Coogan - Featured on BuzzFeed
7. IMDB Page
8. Hamlet 2 Takes Top Price Tag at Sundance
9. Watch a Clip of Steve Coogan at His Best
10. A Point-by-Point Explanation Why Hamlet 2 Was the Runaway Hit at Sundance
11. Hamlet 2 Is a Satirical Take on Modern Musical and Theater Types

TV BUZZ: Hilarious UK comedy show about two wacky roommates has a new DVD boxset out. It’s like an unabashedly ribald Perfect Strangers with more squirmy social awkwardness than The Office . Oh yeah, and my friends say it’s awesome so you should watch it .

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1. Guardian UK Makes Sweeping Claim that “Peep Show is the Best Comedy of the Decade”
2. Peep Show Official Website
3. Watch Full Episodes on Google Video UK
4. Beautifully Written, Hilarious, and Well-performed…so Why is This Show Not Popular?
5. Series 4 DVD Features all 6 Episodes Plus Tons of Extra Footage
6. There is a Facebook group called “If You Don’t Like Peep Show, You’re Probably Not Worth Knowing”
7. Chris Morris (Creator of “Brass Eye”) Will Team Up With Peep Show Duo in New TV Project
8. Season 4 Far Surpasses Season 3
9. British Comedy Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This
10. Peep Show’s Official MySpace Page
11. Peep Show on Wikipedia
12. Peep Show won British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy in 2006

TV BUZZ: The British comedy show about two best friends and their magical adventures. It’s basically like Flight of the Conchords but British, and on some kind of weird acid trip. It almost sounds too good to be true.

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1. Courtney Love Has Noel Fielding Interested In Her Mighty Boosh?
2. Karen O Says She’s Hooked On ‘The Mighty Boosh’
3. Singer Devendra Banhart Introduces Me to the “Mighty Boosh”
4. Boosh Fan site, With Forum and Blogs
5. A forum dedicated to The Mighty Boosh!
6. In an Interview with the Stars of “Superbad,” Jonah Hill says he likes the Boosh.
7. Discussion: What are your favorite British comedy shows?
8. Gary Numan to appear in the Mighty Boosh
9. We think this Cadbury commercial was inspired by the Mighty Boosh
10. The Mighty Boosh on Wikipedia
11. Welcome to The Mighty Boosh - the Official Website
12. The Mighty Boosh’s MySpace Page
13. TV Lookalikes: Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh and Shirley Carter from Eastenders

CELEBRITY BUZZ: Courtney Love is blaming Steve Coogan, a British comedian, for Owen Wilson’s recent troubles. It’s kind of a morbid way to be recognized for your comedic talents. But hopefully all this media attention will lead more people to appreciate Saxondale (the BBC show Steve Coogan writes and stars in) for all its brilliance.

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1. Coogan Comeback: The Breakout Star Of Sundance 2008 Is … Steve Coogan?
2. Steve Coogan Gets a New Yorker Profile
3. Show and Tell: Beach House at Mercury Lounge, 8/25/07
4. Steve Coogan is filming a second series of “Saxondale”! Yesss!
5. Steve Coogan is Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards in Upcoming UK Biopic
6. Steve Coogan on Tony Wilson, whom he played in “24 Hour Party People”
7. List your favourite Steve Coogan moments
8. Steve Coogan Blamed for Owen Wilson’s Suicide Attempt; Courtney Is Obnoxious
9. Steve Coogan’s Saxondale Described as “Erratically Charming”
10. Steve Coogan Issues Statement Denying Courtney’s Claims

TV BUZZ: Edgy British satirist will make a suicide bomber comedy. Ugh, isn’t it annoying how we never find out about British comics until after the fact (i.e. Ricky Gervais, Sacha Baron Cohen)? We wanted to stay ahead of the curve before Chris Morris explodes onto the American scene with a spoof on 9/11. Check out these clips of Chris Morris’ brand of fake news and see what you think.

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The Best Links:

1. Video: Asking a Drug Dealer if They Have a Bunch of Fake Drugs
2. Brass Eye alert! SOMEONE Has Brought Brass Eye to Google Video!!!
3. YouTube - Some Silliness from Chris Morris - Top 10 TV Rebels
4. YouTube - Brasseye Special Parodies Media’s Fear of Pedophiles
5. YouTube - Brass Eye Clip about a Senator with Random Masturbation Issues
6. A Chris Morris Retrospective
7. “Morris’s satirical extremism is just what we need”
8. Chris Morris as a gangsta rapper - YOU MUST WATCH THIS
9. “Chris Morris is the funniest man on the planet”
10. Chris Morris Randomly Masturbates
11. Chris Morris Is Making a Comedy Version of “United 93”
12. UK satirist wants to make “the comedy version of United 93″
13. Not Even a British Humorist Should Take on Terrorism Humor
14. Brasseye Parodies the Media’s Reaction to Pedophilia