# I miss the early days of Comedy Central

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 22, 2011, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-the-early-days-of-comedy-central/593709 "2011-08-22T22:28:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-the-early-days-of-comedy-central/593709/41 "2011-08-24T00:06:22Z")

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> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> It was on VH1. Stand-up Spotlight.
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> It’s actually where I knew her from.

I used to watch that show every night. It’s where we met Jeff, Peanut and Walter…and Rosie for that matter.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-the-early-days-of-comedy-central/593709/42 "2011-08-24T13:43:20Z")

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> [@Quimby](#):
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> Loved the British Whose Line. To this day some of the songs the Red Headed woman (name escapes me) and Mike McShane came up with still get stuck in my head.

Josie Lawrence and Tony Slattery were my favorites, especially in party quirks.

> [@Bosstone](#):
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> I like the American show just fine, mostly because Ryan, Colin, and Wayne were a rock-solid core group.

I found Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie funnier in the British version. Wayne Brady was very predictable. I found the American version somehow squelched the comedy peaks.

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**Post date:** [August 24, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-the-early-days-of-comedy-central/593709/43 "2011-08-24T23:45:55Z")

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I think some of these memories are actually from TWO different networks.

There was HA! and there was Comedy Channel. One was mostly old tv shows and movies (it’s where I met “McHale’s Navy” for the first time and bizarre short lived 60s comedies like “My Occasional Wife”)  
And the other channel would show Higgins Boys and Gruber, Marc Maron’s show, Inside the Comedy Mind and other great original programming. I think each channel lasted a year or two and then they merged to form Comedy Central.

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**Post date:** [August 25, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-the-early-days-of-comedy-central/593709/44 "2011-08-25T00:43:35Z")

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All the shows mentioned so far in this thread were there post-merger.

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