8 Out of 10 Cats which claimed that "8 out of 10 cats prefer Whiskas". New and past episodes air across the Channel 4 network of channels, with past episodes also repeated on Dave. The show will also start to air on Comedy Central. The show is hosted by comedian Jimmy Carr and features two teams, consisting of a regular team captain and two celebrity guests each. Sean Lock appeared as the first team captain from series 1 to 18; he was replaced by Rob Beckett at the beginning of series 19. The opposing captain was originally Dave Spikey, who left after series 4 and
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats by "A. Koford", his grandfather Aloysius Gamaliel Koford, for a short-lived syndicated newspaper comic strip that started in 1912. Koford has pointed to a number of influences on the series (or rather, "cultural touchstones [that] show evidence of being influenced by my great-grandfather's handiwork", as he puts it): the 1973 road movie "Paper Moon" and the 1941 comedy film "Sullivan's Travels", the character design from the 1910s comic strip "Old Doc Yak" by Sidney Smith, the cartooning style of Hank Ketcham and Al Wiseman from "Dennis the Menace", and the work of cartoonist B. Kliban. Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Laugh-Out-Loud Cats is