Comedy news for people with short attention sp- Oi! We were talking to you.

It's news. It's about comedy. It's very brief. And it's taken from everything from TeenHollywood.com to the Financial Times. What more do you need?

Jack Dee is so afraid of wasting any of his time, he keeps a dictionary in the lavatory so that he can look up a new word when he's on the loo. (The Times)

Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen earned an honourable mention in Stuff magazine's Style Icon Of The Year in America. (TeenHollywood.com)

Comedy film The Aristocrats has been judged so filthy that Edinburgh's Vue cinema is offering a ticket refund to anyone who walks out of it within the first 20 minutes. (The Scotsman)

David Walliams and Matt Lucas created a character called Eugene the musician - a triangle player with anger management issues - for the last series of Little Britain, but he never made it to air. (Nuts magazine)

Rik Mayall wants to revive the Homburg as fashionable headgear. (Financial Times)

For those who are interested in hats, here is a picture we found of a Homburg being modelled by a cat: www.baronhats.com/Miniatures3.htm#DV