Producers of "South Park" said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
Viacom Inc.'s Comedy Central said Wednesday that it is picking up "The Onion Sports Network" series, a satire on the world of sports.
The popular video Web site Hulu is losing two of its most popular offerings: "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report."
Video streaming site Hulu is saying goodbye to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, two popular shows from Comedy Central that will no longer be streamed on the site after next week.
Comedy Central won't be renewing "The Jeff Dunham Show" for a second season.
Comedy Central says it is reviving the defunct American Comedy Awards.
Students who might be too glued to their televisions to keep up with homework are going to find channels like MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon prodding them to get on task and graduate.
Comedy Central says "Daily Show" correspondent Jason Jones is reporting from Iran for a week of dispatches titled, "Access of Evil."
Comedy Central says it's bringing the animated comedy "Futurama" back from past cancellation for 26 new half-hour episodes.
Wearing a camouflage suit and tie, Stephen Colbert took his show to Baghdad to entertain U.S. soldiers in Iraq. For openers, President Barack Obama appeared by video to thank the troops.
Kanye West's arraignment on misdemeanor charges has been delayed until May.
Stephen Colbert is taking his Comedy Central show to the Persian Gulf.
They've been zinging each other from afar through the TV screen. Now CNBC's Jim Cramer and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart will go face to face.
Don’t assume it’s a lack of story lines or viewer interest that’s put the kibosh on “ER” after 15 seasons. “We’ve run out of blood — that’s why the show’s ending,” joked John Stamos, who plays Dr. Tony Gates on the show, during a TODAY interview in New York. “There’s no more fake blood.”
Culminating their satirical coverage of the campaign, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert teamed up for a live one-hour comedy special — though Stewart had his Cronkite moment, too.
O come, all ye Colbert faithful. Stephen Colbert will host his own Christmas special this year, Comedy Central announced Tuesday.
Should this world ever cease to exist, Stephen Colbert will live on. The comedian's DNA will be digitized and sent to the International Space Station, Comedy Central was to announce Monday. In October, video game designer Richard Garriott will travel to the station and deposit Colbert's genes for an "Immortality Drive."
Stephen Colbert, the host of his own Comedy Central show, Emmy winner, faux presidential candidate and best-selling author, added to that esteemed collection an award from Princeton University: "The Great Princeton Class of 2008 Understandable Vanity Award."
Stephen Colbert's use of the Internet to connect with fans earned the Comedy Central host special recognition as recipients of the annual Webby awards for Web sites and online achievements were announced Tuesday.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton played up her image as a tireless problem solver — this time for laughs — when she visited Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" Thursday night.
Comedian and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham’s career is taking off. He has been a Comedy Central staple for years, and his two DVDs, “Jeff Dunham: Arguing With Myself” and “Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity,” have been selling wildly, while his latest tour has been sold out all across America. See him in concert or check out the DVDs and you’ll be introduced to his wooden alter-egos: the crotchety, opinionated senior citizen known as Walter, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Jose, Melvin the Super Hero and Peanut. We caught up with this very busy man recently to talk travel.
With late-night comedy appearances seeming to work for her in the days before crucial primaries in Ohio and Texas, Hillary Clinton sought votes Monday by matching wits with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
Politicians beware: Parody is returning. "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
Last night, Jon Stewart defended his Comedy Central colleagues, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of "South Park," in a 10-minute segment bashing a radical Muslim group for issuing a death threat against the rude-humor duo.
"Jon hesitates to repeat a phrase he's used before, but he has something to say to anyone threatening death in the name of religion or politics.
While Clinton, et al, demonize half the American people, Comedy Central caves in to threats from Muslims and censors a 'South Park' episode.
"After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
(April 12, 2010) "South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker speak with Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin about the 200th episode of the hit Comedy Central series, and plans to revisit battles over the boundaries of what can and cannot be done on television -- including how many c …
Producers of South Park said Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
(Reuters) - Satirical animated TV show "South Park" beeped out the words Prophet Muhammad and plastered its Wednesday episode with the word "CENSORED" after being issued a grim warning by a U.S. Muslim group.
"We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them."
They say Islam is a religion of peace. Yet when anyone does anything that is at odds to Islam we have a majority of the world muslim community calling for the wrong doers head.
Tonight, Jon Stewart overviewed the media's reaction to a report that many poor households don't pay federal income tax before comparing it to the non-reaction over the fact that Exxon Mobil also doesn't pay. Inside, video of Stewart's magnificent juxtaposition.
Colbert really slams O'Keefe and Hannity by heavily editing an "video interview.' He sets it up with the following statement: "Colbert offered a tip of his hat to O'Keefe and noted that he was also praised 'in every corner of the Fox News.'"
As the Daily Show and Colbert Report leave Hulu, they reveal the video streaming site's greatest weakness.
There came a point, as Silverman was singing a ballad about a detached baby penis, that I wondered if maybe she had crossed the line into "offensive." But you have to admire the comedian's fearlessness.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart will be a featured guest on The O'Reilly Factor this week, TVNewser reports. We can't wait. The interview will be taped tomorrow and air on O'Reilly's Fox News show in two parts, on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Very funny and informative!
Jon Stewart gives a "Special Comment" to Keith Olbermann. "No, sir, this teleprompter is not stuck. I am doing something called repetition, for dramatic emphasis. You, sir, invented it." By Evann Gastaldo
Comedian Jon Stewart Thursday absolutely tore Keith Olbermann apart for his disgraceful rants against Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown.
On The Atlantic website, former Chicago Tribune Washington Bureau Chief James Warren recounted a recent liberal panel discussion at a celebration of the Second City comedy troupe in Chicago.
The network news broadcasts have ignored a growing scandal over evidence of a potential climate cover-up — and now they've even been scooped by the fake news at Comedy Central.
Well, how about that? Sarah Palin just won all our hearts and minds and lipsticks and pit bulls all over again when she appeared on television right next to The Oprah earlier today.
The big news from the weekend, of course, is that the Senate voted 60-39 along purely partisan lines to allow debate on this health care legislation. Can you even imagine? Sixty whole Democrats agreeing to debate a bill, that they wrote, about things that affect the country.
The facts aren't on Sarah Palin's side, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert declared Thursday night, before passing verdict on Palin's new book, Going Rogue: It's a "steaming pile of @!$%#."
After watching this episode, I flipped briefly to a news channel (teabagger coverage) and it was so amazingly relevant. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, are lots of things. Relevant is one of those things.
Saying that he and those involved in the production of his show "screwed up," Sean Hannity claims the "mistake" was inadvertent. Smugly, he also thanked Jon and his writers for watching.
Now, the outfit has landed a very real deal with Comedy Central to develop a pilot for a show based on its Onion Sports Network (OSN) videos.