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This is going to cost some of you some time. My favorite current stand-up, Lewis Black, is on a tour at the moment. Onstage in each city, he devotes 15-30 minutes to doing a special webcast they call "The Rant is Due." It's just Lewis with an iPad, reading questions submitted over the 'net and responding to them. They're quite wonderful and they're free to watch over on this page.

In one, Black explains that this is his way of having a TV show when the networks won't give him one. I dunno why no network will give this guy a show. Granted, he tried that Root of All Evil show for Comedy Central but that had a contrived premise and didn't have Lewis Black doing what he does so well on stage. I'd watch a regular series of The Rant is Due, especially if someone gave it a better title. See if you wouldn't, too.