Fasten your seatbelts, readers. It's time for the Thursday spin through the Chicago comedy blogosphere! Nobody can cut and paste like we do, baby.

One of our favorite new bloggers, i.O.'s Hans Holsen, continues on with his detailed adventures into comedy writing and pitching for tv. This week, he lists the five most popular sitcom plotlines. Someone really should make a drinking game of this: "New Boyfriend/Girlfriend Disrupts the Family/Social Unit," "Important Restaurant Outing Imperiled by Serving of Blowfish," "Character is Asked to Give Eulogy at Wrong Funeral," "On Vacation, a Family Member Gets Lost and Eats SnackWell’s," and the classic "The Electricity Goes Out, and the Group Bonds."

Kyle Kinane has always had a gift for the snappy pun: "This girl at work dropped her sandwich in the lunch room. I immediately said 'What kind of sandwich was that–Fumblebee Tuna?' It got me thinking. Wow, Kyle, you’re pretty goddamn hilarious with food jokes and/or puns. As I was even thinking that, I blurted out 'Did you use mayonnaise or Miracle Whoops?' I was so good I started to get scared."

Hey, teenyboppers who think you can covertly send friends to the bar at i.O. for your drinks? Crago is on to you.

Chris Burns reconsiders the limits of social leverage of a cool MySpace page: "Don't tell somebody, 'You should check out my MySpace page' to show them how far you've come since college. Because what it does is, show them exactly how far you've come since college. I've pretended to be the bartender inside of a Mexican painting and imitated a little black kid from a health insurance commercial."

Improv newbie Angela Manginelli gently reminds you that occasionally feeling stupid and uninspired is part of the process, like when she and fellow i.O. students were given an exercise: "We were told to go in and deliberately do the worst improv we could. We had blatant denials, tons of questions, horrible object work, people leaving stage to sit down and in most cases no character relationships or plots to follow. It was amazing…(because) despite our best efforts to do truly horrible work we were not able to totally disregard what we had learned. We still were unconsciously creating patterns, games and still committing to the work. In other words, we are growing as improvisers and performers."

- Elizabeth McQuern