Ricardo Gonzalez

WordPress 2.5 introduces a widgetized dashboard featuring the latest comments and WordPress news.
This plugin creates a new widget for that dashboard that lists out the latest comments.
See Also: <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dashboard-widget-manager/" rel="ugc">Dashboard Widget Manager</a>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Inspired by <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/dashboard-latest-spam/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dashboard: Latest Spam</a> by <a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Viper007Bond</a>

Dashboard: Recent Comments Extended

Widget for the WordPress 2.5+ dashboard to display the latest comments.

Corey Salzano

This plugin creates a widget similar to the default recent comments widget. Instead of the format “username on post title,” the widget will display “username said comment excerpt.”
Choose whether or not to include admin user comments.
Customize the character length of the comment excerpt.

Dashboard: Recent Comments Extended vs Recent Comments Widget with Excerpts