This awesome video is a preview for “Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time” on Comedy Central, currently slated for an October premiere. Swardson debuted this skit — “Wheelchair Cat: Trust Fund Kitty” — as well as some new “Gay Robot” material at Comic-Con, and that should be reason enough to get excited for the show even if you’re unfamiliar with his work as Terry on “Reno: 911!” (watch a Gay Robot sketch here).

I mean, come on: It’s a cat in a wheelchair that talks by typing on a keypad like Stephen Hawking. If that doesn’t butter your muffin, then you can just get the hell out of here and never come back. Because I don’t know about you, but I’ve been waiting all my Internet life for someone to combine the inherent humor of cats with the guilty delight of handicapped jokes. What a time to be alive!

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Comedy Central has signed Nick Swardson to his own weekly, half-hour sketch show of digital shorts, animations, and man-on-the-street segments. Lauren Corrao, programming president of Comedy Central, had this to say:

“We love Nick at Comedy Central and even more importantly, our audience loves Nick.  We’ve seen it in his movies, his stand-up, with his ‘Reno 911!’ character ‘Terry,’ and in the work he’s done developing Gay Robot [Ed.- video below].  We can’t wait to expand his creative voice into a sketch series.” [THR]

She added, “We also love the little pet pig he made out of a pink gum eraser and four push pins, and we love his laugh and his neckbeard, and gee his hair smells terrific.”

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