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Australia
The Comedy Channel is a subscription television channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television. Partly owned by Granada Television and Foxtel, the Comedy Channel is the only channel in Australia specifically dedicated to comedy; primarily featuring stand-up, sit-coms, animated comedy, sketch comedy and talk shows.
Programming
The majority of Comedy Channel programming is made internationally particularly from America's Comedy Central Channel, although some Australian product is available. Some Comedy Channel programming includes:
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
- Andy Richter Controls the Universe
- Arrested Development
- Big Bite
- The Boondocks
- Bro'Town
- Chappelle's Show
- Chilly Beach
- Crank Yankers
- Da Ali G Show
- Double the Fist
- Drawn Together
- Eurotrash
- Family Guy
- Just For Laughs
- The Kumars at No. 42
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien
- The Late Show with David Letterman (Pre-2006; it now screens on W)
- Life Support
- Trailer Park Boys
- The Man Show
- skitHOUSE
- So Graham Norton
- South Park
- Scrubs
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK and U.S. versions)
USA
The Comedy Channel was an all-comedy network owned by Time Warner, which merged in 1991 with Viacom's HA! to become Comedy Central. The format prior to the merger included several original and unconventional programs such as Onion World and Mystery Science Theater 3000, as well as laid-back variety/talk shows hosted by stand-up comedians, including Night After Night with Allan Havey and The Higgins Boys and Gruber, the latter of whom performed sketches in between showings of vintage serials like Supercar and Clutch Cargo. The standard format for these shows usually involved the various hosts introducing clips culled from the acts of stand-up comedians as well as classic comedies of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Young Frankenstein and Kentucky Fried Movie, presented in a style similar to music videos.
UK
The Comedy Channel was a UK subscription television channel during the early 1990s. The channel was carried on Sky and mainly featured US imports but also screened a various BBC sitcoms. The channel eventually lost the broadcast rights to the BBC shows because they were earmarked for the new UK Gold channel. As a result its audience figures declined and it closed a few months later. Some years later, the completely unrelated Paramount Channel became Paramount Comedy Channel, eventually developing a much more varied programme line-up than its predecessor.
External link
- The Comedy Channel, Australia
"The Comedy Channel"