recent comments redux

The Recent Comments widget is broken, and I have no idea how to add a different "Recent Comments" widget because the process seems to have changed and the various directions posted around the web have not been updated.

Blogger has a Recent Comments widget, but that, too, is broken.

I've seen nothing on the web thus far indicating that anyone else's "Recent Comments" widget is not working, so no help there, either.

Annoying.