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Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by Time Warner, merged its Comedy Channel with MTV Networks' HA! comedy channel, owned by Viacom. Viacom bought Time Warner's half in April 2003 for $1.225 billion. April Fools Day or All Fools Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... HBO logo HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network. ... Time Warner Inc. ... MTV Networks is the corporate division of media conglomerate Viacom that oversees the operation of the following cable television networks: Black Entertainment Television (BET) Country Music Television (CMT) Comedy Central LOGO MTV MTV2 mtvU Nickelodeon / Nick at Nite Nickelodeon GAS NickToons TV Noggin / The N Spike TV TV Land TMF... Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) [pronunciation: pre-Redstone/pre-1987: vee-a-com; post-Redstone acquisition: vi-a-com] (NYSE: VIA), (NYSE: VIAB) is an international media conglomerate. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The channel had a relatively small viewership until South Park premiered on the channel in 1997. As word of mouth spread, the number of people who requested that Comedy Central be added to their cable systems increased, and the channel became available in over 50% of American homes by 1998. South Park is a comedy animated series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

A lot of Comedy Central's programming consists of 1980s through mid-1990s comedy movies and stand up comedians. On late Saturday nights, they show unedited movies and comedy routines. They call this "The Secret Stash." Comedy Central also hosts original programming, including Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mind-set. ... A comedy film is a film laced with humor or that may seek to provoke laughter from the audience. ... Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ... Jon Stewart Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962 in Trenton, New Jersey), is an American comedian, actor, author, and producer, best known as host of The Daily Show. ... Logo for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, also known as TDS to fans and staffers) is a half-hour satirical fake news program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network in the United States, the...

Notable original programming

Current

• Chappelle's Show
• Comedy Central Presents
• Con
• Crank Yankers
• The Daily Show
• Distraction (U.S. version)
• Drawn Together
• The Hollow Men
• Reno 911!
• Shorties Watching Shorties
• Stella (new)
• South Park

Dave Chappelle Chappelles Show is a sketch comedy series starring Dave Chappelle, a comedian (previously) best known for his role as Thurgood Jenkins in the stoner film Half Baked. ... Comedy Central Presents is a television series shown Friday nights at 10 pm e/p on Comedy Central. ... Con is a television series on Comedy Central in which con artist Skyler Stone reveals the secrets of his profession by performing confidence tricks, scams, and hoaxes of various degrees of complexity on camera. ... Crank Yankers is a United States TV show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison that features actual prank calls that are made by show regulars and celebrity guests. ... Logo for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Daily Show (currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, also known as TDS to fans and staffers) is a half-hour satirical fake news program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network in the United States, the... Distraction is a British game show shown on Channel 4. ... Drawn Together is a fictional animated parody of reality TV shows (more specifically The Surreal Life) on Comedy Central. ... The Hollow Men is a sketch comedy show that runs on Comedy Central, following the kind of silliness from sketch comedy shows like Monty Pythons Flying Circus and The Kids in the Hall. ... Reno911! title card Reno 911! is a comedy television show on Comedy Central. ... Shorties Watching Shorties is a television show broadcast on the Comedy Channel. ... South Park is a comedy animated series created by Matt Stone and Trey Parker. ...

Past

• 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time
• Battlebots
• Beat the Geeks
• Crossballs
• Don't Forget Your Toothbrush
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
• The Graham Norton Effect
• The Higgins Boys and Gruber
• Insomniac with Dave Attell
• Let's Bowl (season 2)
• The Man Show
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 (seasons 1-7)
• Night after Night with Alan Havey
• Short Attention Span Theater
• Sports Monster
• Straight Plan for the Gay Man
• Strangers With Candy
• Tough Crowd
• Trigger Happy TV
• TV Funhouse
• Upright Citizens Brigade
• Wanda Does It
• Win Ben Stein's Money

The following is a list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time. ... BattleBots, also BattleBots Inc. ... Beat the Geeks is a comedy game show airing on Comedy Central in the United States from 2000 through 2003 (reruns of the program are also played on The Comedy Network in Canada). ... Crossballs is a Comedy Central television show poking fun at cable news networks political debate shows, especially CNNs Crossfire and MSNBCs Hardball. ... Dont Forget Your Toothbrush is a television entertainment show originally broadcast in Britain in 1994, and has also been adapted in Australia, France, Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands. ... Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist was an animated television show on the Comedy Central network from 1995 to 2000. ... The Graham Norton Effect is a talk show/variety show, hosted by openly gay Irish comedian Graham Norton, showing on Comedy Central and on BBC3 beginning June 2004. ... The Higgins Boys and Gruber was a cable television show that aired on weekday afternoons during the last few months of 1990. ... Insomniac with Dave Attell is a television show on Comedy Central hosted by comedian Dave Attell. ... Lets Bowl was a shortlived bowling game show that aired on the Comedy Central television network from 2001 to 2002 after a brief run on several TV stations across the U.S. in 1998, the first being Minneapolis-St. ... The Man Show is a half hour comedy television show on Comedy Central. ... From left to right, Crow T. Robot, Joel Robinson, and Tom Servo (the latter dressed as a candystriper). ... Night after Night with Alan Havey was a highly unorthodox late night talk show from 1989 to 1992 on Comedy Central (which merged with Ha! to become Comedy Central), featuring the stream of consciousness cleverness of host Alan Havey, and other departures from the already cookie-cutter late night talk... This series, which ran on Comedy Central from 1989-1994, was basically a pastiche of various comedians and clips from movies airing on HBO and Cinemax that month along with commentary from the shows host. ... Straight Plan for the Gay Man is an American television program airing on cable network Comedy Central. ... Strangers with Candy was a American sitcom that aired thirty episodes (in three seasons of ten episodes each) on Comedy Central in 1999 and 2000. ... Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn was a talk show on Comedy Central. ... Trigger Happy TV is a British hidden camera television show, created, produced and starring Dom Joly. ... TV Funhouse is the title of a recurring skit on Saturday Night Live featuring cartoon animation by Robert Smigel, as well as a short-lived spinoff series that ran on Comedy Central. ... The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicagos ImprovOlympic. ... Wanda Does It is a television show on Comedy Central that displays a day in the life of the world of comediene, Wanda Sykes. ... Win Ben Steins Money was an American television game show that ran from 1997 to 2003 on Comedy Central. ...

Notable syndicated programming

• Absolutely Fabulous
• Banzai
• Blue Collar TV
• The Critic
• Dilbert
• Duckman
• Kids in the Hall
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• MADtv
• Monty Python's Flying Circus (No longer syndicated)
• Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Saturday Night Live (No longer syndicated)
• Whose Line Is It Anyway? (British version)

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External links

• Comedy Central website