# Comedy Central Goes Blue **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 20, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325 "2011-03-20T04:03:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/1 "2011-03-20T04:03:01Z")
When did this happen? I was watching a Greg Giraldo stand-up special and was surprised to hear “shit”, “motherfucker” and other such words with no bleeping, not even partial. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/2 "2011-03-20T04:08:30Z")
What time of day was it? I’ve noticed that they will have a sliding scale of acceptable words depending on time of day and IIRC aired the South Park movie uncut late night. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/3 "2011-03-20T04:11:04Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > What time of day was it? I’ve noticed that they will have a sliding scale of acceptable words depending on time of day and IIRC aired the South Park movie uncut late night. I was late, definitely past 2 am. I usually don’t watch the channel that late, so for all I know they’ve allowed this for years. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/4 "2011-03-20T04:13:27Z")
They don’t don’t censor language late at night. I don’t know exactly what time - midnight, I think - but they show a lot of movies and standup specials without the bleeps in the wee hours. They’ve shown the _South Park_ movie uncensored several times. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/5 "2011-03-20T04:16:21Z")
I was surprised the other night to hear Tosh go on a ‘motherfucker’ laden rant late at night when I’d seen the same episode a few hours before and it was bleeped. Mainly I thought “After 2 already?” ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/6 "2011-03-20T04:21:40Z")
Keep in mind that they might also have aired Greg’s special uncensored due to his recent death. I mean, probably not, but it’s a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/7 "2011-03-20T05:09:02Z")
There was an infamous South Park episode from several years ago where they said “shit” 162 times. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/8 "2011-03-20T07:22:30Z")
Also, Daily Shows and Colberts will have less language bleeped when they originally air at 11pm then they do at their 7.30 rebroadcast. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/9 "2011-03-20T10:24:00Z")
Yes, Comedy Central does air material completely uncensored for language after about 1:00 AM. They still edit out most nudity from films, however. They promote this as their “Secret Stash.” This has been going on since 2003. Among other things, they have run “South Park, Bigger, Longer, & Uncut,” “Team America: World Police,” “Clerks 2,” and the roast of William Shatner, all uncensored. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/10 "2011-03-20T12:21:00Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Also, Daily Shows and Colberts will have less language bleeped when they originally air at 11pm then they do at their 7.30 rebroadcast. I pretty much always watch these two online.\* Seems everything that would be bleeped for 7:30 is bleeped when I watch online. I had just always assumed the same bleeps were in place for the 11:00/11:30pm original airings. Not the case? \*for years, always on their own websites, but now on Hulu since Comedy Central has significantly upped the number of ads. How do they make money from additional ads if the effect is I stop watching on their site and watch on Hulu instead? The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/11 "2011-03-20T13:08:18Z")
I’m pretty sure I have noticed some words not being bleeped at 11 that are bleeped at 7.30, but I watch them on itunes these days as I’m not in the US and they bleep everything as well. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/12 "2011-03-20T15:30:01Z")
Comedy Central regularly run two versions of everything. Most of the time you hear the bleeps. Late at night - and maybe only on weekends - they’ll tell you that this is an unedited version, rated TV-MA, and you get the proper show. They’ve been doing this as long as I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/13 "2011-03-20T16:22:10Z")
I really wish they’d stop bleeping shows online. It’s irritating. Does the FCC have control over what networks post on their website since it isn’t being sent over the air or on cable/satellite? ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/14 "2011-03-20T17:14:54Z")
> [@EvilTOJ](#): > > I really wish they’d stop bleeping shows online. It’s irritating. Does the FCC have control over what networks post on their website since it isn’t being sent over the air or on cable/satellite? The FCC has no control over cable, only networks. CC censors only because it thinks its advertisers or viewers would be upset if they didn’t do so. And nobody has any control over the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/15 "2011-03-20T18:03:31Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > \*for years, always on their own websites, but now on Hulu since Comedy Central has significantly upped the number of ads. How do they make money from additional ads if the effect is I stop watching on their site and watch on Hulu instead? The mind boggles. Oh hey, they’re back on Hulu! I was peeved when Comedy Central took TDS and Colbert off Hulu, and I’ve gotten used to watching them on their own websites. But the new player they’re using is pure crap; it’ll frequently jump from a random point in a segment to the next commercial break, skipping several minutes’ worth of show. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-goes-blue/575325/16 "2011-03-20T18:45:52Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I’m pretty sure I have noticed some words not being bleeped at 11 that are bleeped at 7.30, but I watch them on itunes these days as I’m not in the US and they bleep everything as well. Yeah, the most blatant one I remember was a few years back when the interview was Harry G. Frankfurt, author of the book [_On Bullshit_](http://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/0691122946/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300646599&sr=8-1). For the 11:00 broadcast, they did not censor the title of the book nor, if I remember correctly, use of the word “bullshit” in the context of discussing the book. For the repeats the next day they bleeped every reference to the word (and pixellated the title, I believe).