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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is a cable television network in the United States. As its name implies, the network carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated.

Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by AOL Time Warner, merged its Comedy Channel with MTV Network's HA! comedy network, owned by Viacom. Viacom bought AOL Time Warner's half in April 2003 for $1.225 billion.

Notable original programming

• 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time
• Beat the Geeks
• Chappelle's Show
• Comedy Central Presents
• Crossballs
• The Daily Show
• Tough Crowd
• Insomniac with Dave Attell
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 (seasons 1-7)
• Reno 911
• South Park
• Straight Plan for the Gay Man
• Strangers With Candy
• Win Ben Stein's Money

Notable syndicated programming

• Absolutely Fabulous
• Banzai
• The Critic
• Dilbert
• Duckman
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien
• MADtv
• Saturday Night Live
• Whose Line Is It Anyway (British version)

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