We have a pretty good guess as to what ’s main discussion topic will be during his weekly appearance on Monday, and it’s not tonight’s debate (and not just because he’s already covering that tonight). This week, Paramount made the infuriating and existentially terrifying decision to wipe out two decades of archival material across sites like Comedy Central (the channel that hosts ), , TV Land, CMT, and more. That’s a genuinely unfathomable number of hours worked and information gathered just.
.. gone, all for some sort of nebulous .
When MTV News went dark on Monday, people started to . Now that the Comedy Central archives have joined the list of casualties, a number of veterans are riding in like the cavalry to join the fight. The Comedy Central website previously hosted a massive amount of clips and episodes, documenting over two decades of the show’s history (alongside fellow late-night programs like and ).
All of that has now been replaced with a pop-up reading, “While episodes of most Comedy Central series are no longer available on this website, you can watch Comedy Central through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of Comedy Central shows.” Paramount+, however, only has the two most recent seasons of available.
You can find some more content on YouTube, but that channel also doesn’t extend back any further than 2016. The people who created the archive aren’t happy. “Gotta bring back the bootleg DVD man.
This.
