Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television program produced by Crackerjack Productions. It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the free-to-air channels along with Big Bite and skitHOUSE. Episodes from the previous seasons are repeated on the Australian pay television channel The Comedy Channel. The series debuted in 2003, rapidly gaining the highest ratings of the three sketch comedies then on Australian television. It subsequently gained numerous nominations for major Australian and international film and television awards. The show has also proved to be more commercially successful in Australia than its rivals and was the first to release a DVD of content from the series. Comedy Inc. has had many different formats. For example, a more risqué variation of the series was broadcast in 2005, entitled Comedy Inc: The Late Shift. The episodes were aired at a later time, because of the content. The Late Shift has aired from 2005 until 2007.