World of Warcraft and other similar Internet based MMOs are a phenomenon which seem to constantly hover just away from the mainstream.

Despite having 10 million subscribers worldwide, and picking up new ones every day, WoW remains the domain of the geek, or at least that’s what traditional media would have us believe.

One Million Nerds

So when a new Web based comedy drama about a mismatched group of online role-playing gamers found its way on to YouTube last October, 1 million nerds watched it.

The show is the brainchild of Felicia Day, a geeky yet attractive professional actress who regularly appeared on Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

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Nirvana The band The Show, yes, without any punctuation, is a new web based sitcom from Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol.

So far, there have been four episodes completed, and uploaded to the various places the duo have chosen to make their show available from.

This includes a website dedicated solely to the show, a YouTube channel, and a channel on Stage6. All of the episodes are the same on all the sites, but the website seems to be updated most often with new episodes.

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I never thought Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant would be able to equal the brilliance, and success of the original series of The Office, but somehow they pulled it off.

Extras works because it shows a side of television, and celebrities that we don’t normally get to see. Okay, it’s all made up, but still, it works on a voyeuristic level.

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Stella Street is an offbeat sitcom/sketch show, which features comedians Phil Cornwell and John Sessions doing impressions of a multitude of celebrities.

The basic premise is that these stars, such as Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino, have all moved to London, and live on the same street.

The show has so far been a BBC2 regular, and four series have been aired on the channel, but now it’s coming exclusively to the online sector, by way of Log.tv.

Director Peter Richardson looks to have been fed up with the constraints of traditional television, and so decided to relaunch the cult show on the Internet instead.

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This is a very short clip from The IT Crowd, a technology related sitcom shown on Channel 4 in the UK which is currently being remade in the US.

The whole show is brilliant, but this particular clip is inspired. The ’sensible’ character in the IT department is Jen Barber, although she’s less techie, and more administrative than the other two main characters.

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NBC Thursdays are about to be rockin’ and rollin’ once again. The My Name is Earl season premiere airs tonight at 8:00 pm EST, and that’s not the only exciting news.

NBC has given lovers of My Name is Earl more reasons to love NBC.com. After new episodes air, you have the ability to watch the full episodes online.

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Black20 is a comedic internet TV production company that features many different web television series. One of these series is net_work.

net_work is a comedy set in the workplace that features dry humor. The internet show is set in the office of an internet TV production company that finds humor in this type of work with no laughtrack in the background.

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‘’Scrubs’’ is one of my favorite comedy shows on television . . . and that’s saying a lot, since I’m not a sitcom fan. Maybe it’s Zach Braff, because I have an unnatural crush on him . . .

This video clip shows the most hilarious outtakes and bloopers from the popular NBC sitcom. Not only are the characters absolutely hysterical, but the actors portraying them are even funnier!

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What is it about Jenny McCarthy that makes her so unique? Her beauty – no, there are plenty of beautiful girls out there. What about her crudeness – no, there’s plenty of those too. Maybe it’s her willingness to suck off a creepy little bear on national television.

This clip is taken from an episode of the British comedy series, Bo’ Selecta. The Bear, one of the show’s characters, challenges McCarthy to a flirt off. McCarthy, being the beauty queen of crude behavior, manages to one-up him.

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The new series Where Are the Joneses? has been active for the past month. Each day, the series has been posting five-minute episodes online. But this isn’t the most exciting part of it . . .

Viewers of the sitcom are being encouraged to interact with the series! By visiting the Where Are the Joneses? forum, viewers are able to contribute storyline ideas or actually take part in the writing of the series.

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