Comedy Central

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Comedy Central is a cable TV station that was started by the ~~infamous~~ intimate Five Jewish Bankers sometime in the early 16th Century. It started out as a small station, showing funny clips meant for the 'common people' and was lifted to fame by running 2000 straight hours showing a man getting hit in the balls with a football.

[edit] History

Comedy Central was brought forth on April Fools of 1991 ( very significant since Comedy Central is one big joke after all ) when HBO (owned by Time Warner) decided to merge its unpopular comedy channel with MTVs shit program, "HA!". By working together, perhaps they could create an entire channel of unpopular shit. Comedy Central was first known as CTV, short for "Comedy Television." But the Canadians pitched a fit as they had a network named "CTV" as well, short for "Canadian Television". But what the Canadians failed to realize, is that no one in America cares anything about what is going on outside its borders, especially Canadian television programming. As a result CTV was forced to change its name and become "Comedy Central". The channel was sold to Disney in 1995.

Since Comedy Central had no original ideas of their own, they picked up cult favorite, Mystery Science Theater 3000, which was never meant to be a quality show. But since the program already had a following and Crow T. Robot never ran out witty one-liners, it was inevitable that more people would eventually tune in. Over the years of trial and error, Comedy Central has finally become a staple in American television programming.

[edit] Overview

Sometimes Comedy Central will air a show that is genuinely funny and creative such as That's My Bush!, The Daily Show, South Park, bad boner jokes|Upright Citizens Brigade, andViva Variety. Most of the time, patrons are forced to watch people embarrass themselves, like Colin Quinn for example, whose show Tough Crowd was nothing short of a 30 minute stutter-a-thon. It took Comedy Central several years to realize that Colin Quinn is an abomination, his standup is awful, he has a speech impediment, his "Weekend Updates" were only him reading the news, and that no one could comprehend how he even got far enough in his career to end up on Saturday Night Live in the first place.

Since Comedy Central does not pay their talent well, most shows are short lived; the only exception being Southpark, because Comedy Central is the only network with enough balls to air it.