Dave Gorman is a comedy writer (Mrs Merton Show), TV performer (The Dave Goreman Collection, Absolutely Fabulous) and co-author of the critically acclaimed book 'Are you Dave Gorman?'

What's in your Favourites folder at the moment? Howard Read's animations is a current favourite. He's a very funny stand-up, it was a complete revelation to me when I discovered that he did something else so good too. And What should I put on the fence.com is great too. As is Mr Gibson.net But my list of favourites is always changing.

Are there any decent comedy sites out there?
Of course there are. It's become a complete cliche for websites to list The Onion on their links page. And there's a good reason. It is the most consistently funny writing I know – online or anywhere else for that matter. I met the head writer last year and they're so flattered to know that British people love their site. They look up so much to British comedy themselves.

Why do so few comedians have their own site?
Because websites take time and comedians are notoriously lazy. Many get a burst of enthusiasm, pay someone to create a site and then never update it. I had a great web designer ask me if he could build a site for me. I agreed but only if he taught me how to update it myself. It takes five minutes to put something online so I update my site regularly.

What makes a good comedy site?
It sounds obvious, but good comic content. Too many people put too many whistles and bells on their sites, little animated gifs and so on. It's in the words.

Does the Internet provide a new way of exploiting comedy?
Why use the word 'exploiting', I don't think the Internet exploits comedy – there aren't any e-millionaires out there who've started comedy websites. But comic writers who feel there is no way of 'getting in' can use the Internet as a way of producing stuff. Anyone can put a site online – it costs next to nothing – just a few hours a week in an Internet cafe would be enough if you knew your way around it all technically (I don't) and you can get the best word of mouth on the net. For want of a better cliche – 'if you build it they will come'. If you can't get anyone to buy what you've written, put it online. If there are people out there that like what you write, they'll find it and laugh and tell their friends.

Anything you'd like us to plug while we're here?
There's a book out called Are You Dave Gorman? that I wrote with Danny Wallace.