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Comedy Central Turns 20
Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 11 April 2011 8:13 AM
It’s been 20 years since the launch of Comedy Central. The network, which turned two decades on April Fool’s Day, is stronger than ever writes the New York Times this morning. “South Park” and Jon Stewart continue to pull in big audiences; Stephen Colbert is a big part of the equation as well. And the highest ratings in the past year have come from Daniel Tosh’s web-clip program, which, some nights, draws upwards of four million viewers. Network executives say the key to their success has been a “singular point-of-view comedy.” In a nutshell that means finding someone with talent and then giving them a “platform to do their thing.”
Here’s Tosh composing a love letter to Erin Andrews, via Twitter:
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