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omedy is still the king genre of web video. And fittingly there are dozens of sites vying to be the web's go-to hubs for comedy—Funny or Die, Atom.com, My Damn Channel, Comedy.com—but that doesn't mean the broader web series hubs aren't up for some jocularity of their own. Sony's Crackle.com has had its share of original comedies over the past year, most recently bowing Jon Heder led Woke Up Dead, not to mention earlier jabs like David Faustino's Star-ving. But in an effort to bolster their comedy wares, Crackle rolled out its latest push today with the launch of a video slate dubbed "Last Call for Comedy." The package contains just two new original web series—Decisions, Decisions and So On and So Forth—alongside the online debut of the first two seasons of TBS comedy 10 Items or Less and some cult comedy films...

Cannes -- Disney-abc-espn Television, the international distribution arm of the Burbank-based Mouse House, will unveil Monday its first European agreement to offer content to Microsoft's MSN video viewers across Europe.

The partnership covers two short-form scripted comedy series - "Squeegees" and "Voicemail."

The deal is one of several that the Disney company will be talking about here at the MIPCOM TV trade show, it being one of the more press-friendly Hollywood congloms? when it comes to releasing details about its foreign TV deals.

The agreement, which is Disney-abc-espn TV's first Europe-wide distribution deal for its Stage 9 Digital Media unit, reflects the growing popularity of the Internet as an entertainment and video platform. Financial details of the deal, however, were not forthcoming.

In any case, Hollywood studios such as Disney are increasingly producing content specifically for the Internet and partnering with established Web brands such as MSN to connect with their...