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Comedy websites

Zapavision
Zapavision.com
Baby sister of Trailervision where you can send in short ads for products like lesbian cigarettes.

The Viral Factory
www.theviralfactory.com
Exists solely to create viral content. Creates short, punchy, humourous clips, for fun and for profit.

Punchbaby.com
www.punchbaby.com
Set up by Matthew Smith, a contributor to this site. This is more an entertainment site than the viral factory.

Auto TV
www.autotv.co.uk
Experts at encoding video, outputting animation and capturing stills from videotape.

Conhugeco
www.conhugeco.org
The Laziest Men on Mars provide music and mad graphics.

Dinnerparty TV
www.dinnerparty.tv
Interactive comedy drama where you vote for your favourite characters then watch the seven most popular take part in a comedy dinner party. Check out the episodes to see what happens next.

Mingers
www.mingers.com
Described as Home of the Facially Inept, the content of this site is pretty much what you'd expect. Check out Captain Pugwash in the Minging Look-a-likes.

Jibjab
www.jibjab.com
E-cards, screensavers and MP3's with some great cartoon episodes such as 'Funny Foreign Names' where George Dubbya has to sing little rhyming songs in order to remember the names of International dignitaries.

Sack the Writer
www.etvcentre.com/stw
Interviews with boyband TWAT (teens with attitude), Sadie Kaye as the Weather in Leather and sketches from Luigi's Kitchen where there's a Mafioso chef, his useless assistant and a karate kid with a touch of gangster rap. Good stuff.

Bill Gates is Dead
www.billgatesisdead.com
Follow the Citizens for Truth on their journey to discover who killed Bill Gates. The Community discussions address seminal issues such as 'How much RAM did Bill Gates say would be enough in 1981?'

Doctor Who - the official site
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho
Website featuring the BBC's first ever audio internet drama - Death Comes To Time, produced by Dan Freedman, comedy writer and performer.

Mahir
www.ikissyou.org
Pastiche lonely-hearts web page featuring Turkish journalist Mahir Cagr who invited the world's women to live with him, listing his interests as 'sex and photographing naked ladies'.

Situations Vacant
www.sitsvac.org
Online comedy arm of Situations Vacant, developer of new sitcoms and comedy for TV and radio.

Vector Lounge
www.vectorlounge.com
Vector Lounge is both an online event and a real multimedia happening. Web designers and developers are encouraged to express themselves playfully and experiment digitally.

The Snooze
www.thesnooze.com
Online comedy magazine that started as a letter from Catherine Rubino - author, stand-up performer and TV comedy writer - to her brother and sister.

TV Go Home
www.tvgohome.com
Spoof TV listings and humourous media comment from one of the original comedy websites.

The Dull Men's Club
www.dullmen.com
Online forum allowing dull men to share their thoughts and experiences away from external pressures.

Mongo Droids
www.mongodroids.com
Online animation about a group of stupid robots, courtesy of Dino Ignacio, the man responsible for 'Bert is Evil'.

Obsolete Computer Museum
www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org
Site dedicated to old and/or obsolete computers. Exhibits include images, anecdotal and technical information.

Arj Barker
www.arjbarker.com
Fan site for the dry witted American comic and Perrier 1997 Best Newcomer Winner.

Monobrow
www.momobrow.com
Celebrating the unity of your eyebrows.

Marijuanalogues Tour
marijuanalogues.com
News of Arj Barker's forthcoming comic tour.

Men Who Look Like Kenny Rogers
www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com
Does what it says on the label.

Polar Bears In A Snowstorm
www.howard.read.ukgateway.net/animation.html
Howard Read's award winning animation.

What Should I Put On The Fence
www.whatshouldiputonthefence.com
One of Dave Gorman's sites. Hard to tell if it's a spoof rant site written by a man who doesn't want his bicycle clamped or the genuine article.

The World of Mister Gibson
www.mrgibson.net
Blurry crayon portraits of celebrities drawn by a child with a severe personality disorder.

Dave Gorman
www.davegorman.com
TV comedian Dave Gorman's entertaining and interactive fansite which he updates regularly.

Are You Dave Gorman?
www.davegorman.com/rudgbook.html
Details of Dave Gorman's Book

Matthew and Jake's Adventures
www.mit.edu:8001/mj/mj.html

Mirsky's Worst of the Web
www.mirsky.com
As the masses began flooding the internet with embarrassingly amateurish websites, David Mirsky began posting this daily skewering of the worst.

Justin's Links From the Underground
www.justin.org
Justin Hall was an early web pioneer. This is his monthly updated homepage with his news and views from around the world.

Ollie North & The Marijuana Pipe
www.links.net/vita/speak/ollie
One of Justin's funniest pranks was the true story of how he duped conservative American politician Oliver North into autographing his marijuana pipe.

Joke Wallpaper
www.jokewallpaper.com
US comic site with news, pranks and buy stuff. Note. There's a $2 annual subscription through Amazon.

Disappointment.com
www.disappointment.com
Bedroom Jonathan comic pokes fun at everything he can think of.

Spacemoose
www.spacemoose.com
Humorously tasteless cartoons that appeared in Alberta University magazine, Gateway.

Catscan
www.catscan.com
Site hosting scanned photos of cats. It's meant to be art. Go figure.

I'm Not Insane
www.imnotinsane.com
Tom Winkler's daily video insert, proving, he says, he's not insane.

Furniture Pornography
www.furnitureporn.com
Office and home furnishings snapped in 'hot' compromising positions.

Doodie.com
www.doodie.com
More from Tom Winkler. This time cartoons about poo.

The Junkies
www.thejunkies.com
Blackly comic online sitcom about three heroin addicts. Funny character biogs and streamable scenes. Satirising victims of heroin abuse is undoubtedly offensive, the problem here is they've made it pretty funny.

Eugene Mirman Homepage
www.eugenemirman.com
Adding to the standard fan site, this New York comic has included comic videos of his own, a Burt Reynolds Say No To Drugs commercial and streamable songs from 'Eugene, the marvellous singing child'.

Blumpy
www.blumpy.org
Film-maker Jakob Lodwick's page of MPEG shorts with titles like Duelling Pubes, El Saviour, Death Chaos 9000 and Santa Versus the Easter Bunny. Lodwick says the movies are '100% for fun, 0% for profitability' and the site boasts 100,000 hits since inception.

The Terrible Secret of Space
www.jonathonrobinson.com
An animated pop video from Jonathon Robinson featuring two cartoon robots who protect the world from, you guessed it, The Terrible Secret of Space. But are the robots to be trusted?

Zug
www.zug.com
US comedy forum for surfers to send in rants on anything from why ugly people should boycott the sitcom Friends to bogus complaint mails: 'Dear Hershey's, I've heard your Nutrageous Bar is made from human testicles'. You get the idea.

The Onion
www.theonion.com
Spoof US newspaper with five million hits a month. The comic headlines give you an idea why. 'Dwarf Falls the Equivalent of 10 Stories', 'Local Man's Cowardly Battle Against Cancer' and 'Peace Activist Admits the Barrett 50 Calibre Sniper's Rifle Is Pretty Cool'.

Urban 75
www.urban75.com
Critically praised UK football fanzine that has gone ballistic. Thousands of humorous articles on current issues, environmental action, rave culture, civil rights, rants, info on drugs, cartoons and photography.

Fractal Cow
www.fractalcow.com
Dino Ignacio's now legendary site that spawned Bob is Evil. Cats as Trophies juxtaposes photos of road kills with poetry. Dino's Test Tube Theatre runs some of his shorts which have titles like Britney Must Die! and The Boy Who Ate Christmas.

Zeppotron
www.zeppotron.com
Hosts the popular 'TV Go Home', a spoof Radio Times, 'Unnovations', a shopping channel for useless items, 'Office Romance', a charming series of mini cartoons about 'self-loathing and heartache', familiar territory for many of us, apparently.

Cartel Communique
www.cartelcommunique.com
Site which delights in taking video clips of your least favourite pop stars and changing the songs. Titles like 'Posh Splice' and 'Chris de Burger' should give you an idea of what's going on.

Tourist Guy
www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48225,00.html
A Wired news article discusses the identity of the original hoaxter photoshopped image of a plane bearing down on an unsuspecting tourist standing on the observation deck of the World Trade Centre.

All Your Base Are Belong to Us
www.allyourbase.net
Another web phenomenon, this time a non-sensical pop video beginning with a message of impending doom from cartoon aliens followed by the aforementioned phrase plastered over everyday street signs.

Cook'd and Bom'd
www.cookdandbombd.co.uk
A work archive of the cutting edge comic and general threat to standards of decency, Chris Morris.

Phishy Sounds
www.phishy.net/irc/sounds.htm
Download cult comedy sound bites from The Fast Show, George Dawes, Withnail and I, The Simpsons, 'D'oh!' and lots more.

Viz
www.viz.co.uk
Site for the schoolboy magazine that everyone reads. Extracts from the issue of the week, Roger's Profanisaurus is online plus links to their favourite sites like 'Mullets Gallore' in their 'Mighty Shitey, Web Sitey'.

Bubblegun
www.bubblegun.com
'Intended for mature readers with a keen sense of irony', the site features comically violent cartoons like Knife and Wife and news rants like why Arnie Schwartzenegger's career is on the slide. (Basically because he's crap).

Trailervision
www.trailervision.com
Movie trailers for films that will never make it to the cinema.

Hahabonk
www.hahabonk.com
British-made Flash funnies hoping to make it to TV.

b3ta
www.b3ta.com
Flash funnies, crap drawing competitions and weird news.

Website Building and Design

Tutorials

Webopedia
www.webopedia.com
General information. Definitions of 1000s of computer-related terms from hardware to the Internet, so you know your ASCII from your elbow.

Hotwired
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html
The Web Developer's Resource. All you need to start out.

Macromedia
www.macromedia.com
Serious Flash and Dreamweaver tuition, including instructor-led courses and an online university which includes HTML, Java and XML.

Java
http://java.sun.com
Java tuition, including information on real world Java training events.

Adobe
www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop
Photoshop tuition.

HTML Center
www.htmlcenter.com
Tutorials on various subjects including HTML, JavaScript, Photoshop and Flash.

EchoEcho
www.echoecho.com/school.htm
Various online tutorials including HTML, JavaScript, design, Flash and server programming.

W3
www.w3schools.com
List of free online tutorials including HTML, XML and Javascripting.

HTML Writer's Guild
www.hwg.org
Offer courses including HTML, Photoshop, web design, website promotion.

Linux Online
www.linux.org
If you've caught the coding bug and are dying for more – go geeky.

Web Building Hang-Outs
These are places to go for tips and tricks, they review software and offer tutorials on many subjects, from frames to animation. They also have a wealth of free downloads.

Bignosebird
www.bignosebird.com

Really Big
www.reallybig.com/reallybig.shtml

WebMonkey
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey

Downloads.com
http://download.cnet.com

Free Web Hosts
The following offer free space on the web for your site:

Fortune City
www.fortunecity.com

Yahoo! Geocities
http://geocities.yahoo.com

Tripod
www.tripod.lycos.com

Microsoft Network
www.msn.com

Netscape Online
www.netscape.co.uk

Ftp Packages
The following are stand-alone software packages that allow you to upload your site to a host.

Cute FTP
www.cuteftp.com/products/cuteftp/index.shtml

Interarchy
www.interarchy.com

Terrapin FTP
www.us.tpin.com/ftp

WSFTP
www.ftpplanet.com/download.htm

Graphics and Banners
Can't create your own images? Then use someone else's.

1001 Free Fonts
www.1001freefonts.com

Clipart
www.clipart.com

Inkies Clipart
www.inki.com/clipart

Animation Factory
www.animfactory.com

UK Banners
www.ukbanners.com

Icon Bazaar
www.iconbazaar.com

Coolnotions
www.coolnotions.com

Get Help with Tables and Frames

Table Tutorial
www.charm.net/~lejeune/tables.html

Sharky's Frame Tutorial
http://sharkysoft.com/tutorials/frames/

Add-ons
Keep your site interesting and interactive with these add-ons.

Guestbook
www.theguestbook.com

Dreambook
www.dreambook.com

Voting Booths

Pollnow
www.pollnow.com/index.shtml

VantageNet
www.freetools.com

Message Boards

Byte Center
www.resourcedrive.com/resources/Services/Message_Boards/

BeSeen
www.beseen.com/board/index.html

Chat

BeSeen Free Chat Rooms
www.beseen.com/chat/

Para Chat
www.parachat.com

Counters find out who is hitting your site and how often.

Superstats Counter
www.freecenter.com/counter.html

Hitometer
http://websitegarage.netscape.com/turbocharge/hitometer/index.html

Not BBC
www.notbbc.co.uk/corpses
Comedy forum for those with opinions, mainly on the latest film and music releases.

Comedy College
www.tvcomedycollege.com
Online tuition from comedy writers (service currently suspended).

BBC Guidelines for Comedy Writers www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/guidelines/writing_tv_com/faqs2.shtml
If you're considering becoming a comedy writer these FAQs are essential reading. Other info about response times, narrative comedy and what happens to your script when it's sent in is included.

TUTORIALS

Max Hits
www.max-hits.net
Step-by-step guide to designing a site. Getting started, planning and building, graphics and design, navigation and promotion.

Technical websites

Lightwave 3D
www.lightwave3d.com/product/index.html
Website of NewTek, the company responsible for this ubiquitous 3D graphics games and animation software. Features product information, news and gallery.

Maya
www.aliaswavefront.com
Website of Alias/Wavefront, the company responsible for Maya, the 3D and visual effects software. Product and company information, plus a downloadable trial version of Maya.