# comedy central shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704 "2003-10-05T13:35:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![captainQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@captainQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/captainQwark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/1 "2003-10-05T13:35:25Z")
how did **battlebots** and_insomniac_ end up on Comedy Central? The few times I saw _battlebots_ it hardly had anything to do with comedy. And even though _insomniac_ starts with some stand up, it comes off more as an alternative travel logue than a comedy. It just seems weird to me. ---
**Author:** ![captainQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@captainQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/captainQwark)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/2 "2003-10-05T13:37:19Z")
oh crap, I really screwed the pooch on the OP! ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/3 "2003-10-05T13:38:45Z")
Screwed The Pooch would be a good Comedy Central show. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/4 "2003-10-05T14:15:03Z")
Insomniac is pure comedy, perfectly appropriate for the channel. ---
**Author:** ![Alias](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e4f/32.png) [@Alias](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alias)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/5 "2003-10-05T14:35:40Z")
I like Insomniac. I think Dave Attell is hilarious. The one I don’t get is Crank Yankers. God I hate that show. It’s so irritating!!! Also, The Man Show really bugs me. Unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/6 "2003-10-05T15:08:30Z")
Probably because the other networks didn’t want the shows. “The Sopranos” was turned down at the regular networks, if memory serves me, and landed on HBO. ---
**Author:** ![teemingONE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b4bc9f/32.png) [@teemingONE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teemingONE)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/7 "2003-10-05T18:30:25Z")
Crank Yankers rules so much. And The Man Show has only recently become unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![Brad\_Pittiful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b3f665/32.png) [@Brad\_Pittiful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brad_Pittiful)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/8 "2003-10-05T20:29:04Z")
Man show with Kimmel/Carolla = funnay Man Show with new host? whoever there are = unfunnay Dave Attell on insomniac is funnay!! Special Ed and Spoony Love on crank yankers is funnay ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/9 "2003-10-06T05:39:41Z")
I like the stand-up, and also The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Occasionally, they’ll have a good movie on, but otherwise Comedy Central’s just kinda… “eh” ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/10 "2003-10-06T06:11:01Z")
_Battlebots_ was an odd fit on CC but I liked it so much better than any of the copycat or ripoff shows that aired on TLC or TNN (now Spike). I wish someone would bring it back. _Insomniac_ just uses the standup routine as a jumping off point. Dave Attell is a standup comedian touring the country. What do you do after your last show in different cities? It’s a perfect kind of comedy travelogue show for CC (a fun odd mix of 3rd shifters, bars, drunks, strippers, weirdos, stupid behavior, college kids making bad choices, etc.) without imposing a pointless game on it (like _Travel Sick_) or the stupid hero worship/fear of an idiotic _Man Show_ writer on that crapfest show, _I’m With Busey_. _Crank Yankers_ annoys me just as all “gotcha” shows do, but even more so since it’s just puppets lip-syncing to lame phone pranks. I never had much regard for _The Man Show_, but the new version makes the Adam & Jimmy version seem almost well done by comparison. And since I think Jimmy Kimmel is the anti-christ of untalented famous people and frat boy humor, that’s saying something. I want more episodes of _Chappelle’s Show_, it was uneven, but when it was funny it was great ( the O’Dweeds ad and the black white supremacist sketch in particular). Although Dave’s obsession with R. Kelly/toliet humor and his one-note crackhead character got old very quick. I still want to find and punish whoever is responsible at CC for letting pathetically unfunny Martin Short and his fat suit near a TV camera to make a shit show like _Primetime Glick_. ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/11 "2003-10-06T10:12:14Z")
I miss _Strangers with Candy_.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/12 "2003-10-06T12:57:08Z")
Let’s face it. When the [Shakespeare monkeys](http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/index.html) take a day off, they head over to Comedy Central and write up a few new show ideas for the network. But one of them came up with Sealab 2021 and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, so I guess I can’t complain. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/13 "2003-10-06T12:58:31Z")
Oh, wait. Sealab 2021 and ATHF are on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Never mind. Replace that with “The Daily Show” and chalk it up to way too much time in front of my latin book and not enough time under my blankets. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/14 "2003-10-06T18:00:59Z")
Insomniac is good, so is the Daily Show, rebroadcasts of Conan and SNL can be, The Man Show was good with Adam and Jimmy, Crankyankers is tolerable at best (though Adam Carolla’s Birchum is always great), Reno 911 is great. Of course, that’s…what…4.5 hours max. Anybody remember that stack of steaming feces by the name of Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush? God that was awful. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comedy-central-shows/205704/15 "2003-10-06T21:44:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brad Pittiful \* > Man show with Kimmel/Carolla = funnay > > Man Show with new host? whoever there are = unfunnay > \*\* One of the guys was the repairman from News Radio. I don’t know who the other douchbag is but they both suck. I’ve liked Carolla since his Love Line radio show and Kimmel was a perfect sidekick. Insomnia is pretty funny but I can only watch so many episodes of a bald guy hanging out with drunks in Jerkwater USA. screw you guys! Southpark, kicks ass. John Stewart is pretty funny but I can never figure out when it’s on. I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! I like Crank Yankers! YEAAAAAAAA!!! (well, sometimes) Trigger Happy TV is like an un-funny British Jackass. While those idiots think that it’s enough to stand on a corner in a rabbit suit (and maybe it is in Britain), Steve-O goes the extra mile and has trained rottweilers chase him down and maul him while wearing the rabbit suit. Reno 911 sucks balls because they in fact, suck balls. Chapelle Show = Chris Rock light The reruns of cartoons like Gary & Mike, Dilbert, Clerks, and that college one that used to be on MTV are fine until you see all ten of the episodes they made. And it’s always nice to catch movies like PCU or Trading Places with all the profanity removed and commercials every 5 minutes.