From The Onion's AV Club interview with the man himself:

AVC: Other than The Office, what makes you laugh?

MG: I'm very sad that Don Knotts just died. He's the greatest comic actor on television, ever. I like a lot of British comedy. There's a British show that just finished up its second season, called Look Around You, which is a send-up of science thrillers, which I like a lot. On a regular basis, I watch The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Countdown W/ Keith Olbermann, which may be the funniest show of all. It's similar to The Daily Show, except there's no braying audience.

Look Around You is perhaps the funniest parody show ever. The producers got a note about it to TeeVee, mostly done by a lot of Macworld people, and I started watching it, and it was hilarious. The second series, which finishes tomorrow night on BBC America, is almost completely indescribable. The producer described the first series as "A series of surreal parodies of 1970s educational films," and by that standard, the second series can only be described as "a surreal parody of 1980s educational television." It has the exact vibe of something that would have aired on OETA at 1:30 on a Tuesday afternoon in 1982.

When region 1 DVDs are available, or maybe even before, I'm getting this puppy. Meanwhile, don't miss the "live final" tomorrow night, when the invention of the year will be awarded live, in studio, by "His Royal Highness, Sir Prince Charles."

Countdown is also worth a season pass. It has more in common with The Daily Show than Matt said: like that program, its network doesn't give TiVo enough information for your recorder to know that the 7PM, 11PM, and 8AM-next-weekday showings are all the same show, so it tries to record it three times. Even so, it's worth the effort. On the days you want to watch news, Countdown is the news you want to watch.

Oh, yeah - Matt also mentions John Swartzwelder's novels, and I've read them both (the second one this past weekend), and they're quite funny, if excessively non-linear. But he was wrong - Swartzwelder's third novel was published just last week. Amazon boxes for all three are below.

#1	#2	#3 (new, haven't read yet)

Very funny stuff. I'm now reading the third one, and it's pretty good, too. Amazon doesn't have a picture of it yet even though they shipped it to me, so I'll tell you: it looks like the second one, except the background is green and the title is yellow. Whee.