Porn can't be the only thing that makes money on the Web

April 04, 2008 There is occasionally a great TV comedy moment that sneaks through someplace other than on Comedy Central ("The Daily Show," the Peabody-winning "The Colbert Report" and "South Park" remain the standard), but in the main it's about cyberspace now. Even the stuff that starts on network TV thrives only after it hits the Web, such as the inspired pair of videos that began life on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and involved Kimmel and Sarah Silverman claiming fictitious sexual relationships with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, respectively. Another piece of comedic brilliance that caught fire of late is one born on the site SuperDeluxe.com and involves comedian Craig Bierko's conducting an interview with John Malkovich in a bathtub and is dubbed as the first installment in a series entitled "Bathing With Bierko."

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