8 Out of 10 Cats show has to be edited to fit in its 26-minute slot. From series 9 there is a longer version of the show called "8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut", broadcast a few days later. These rounds only featured in series 1 and the "Big Brother" special shows: Since 2012, crossover episodes between "8 Out of 10 Cats" and "Countdown" have aired. The show follows the format of "Countdown", but is hosted by Jimmy Carr, with permanent contestants Sean Lock and Jon Richardson, as well as two other guest contestants. On 4 January 2013, a special episode of "Deal or No
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