COMEDY CENTRAL TO GO INTERNATIONAL

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	DESPITE REPORTS, NORTON WILL RETURN TO BRITAIN, SAYS PRODUCER Aug 25 2004
	Reports Tuesday that British comedian Graham Norton will walk away from his contract to host (more)
	KERRY APPEARS ON COMEDY CENTRAL FOR 'INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION' Aug 25 2004
	During a nearly surrealistic interview on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Tuesday, (more)
	CHAPPELLE IS COMEDY CENTRAL'S $50-MILLION MAN Aug 3 2004
	Underlining the continued financial vitality of cable television networks, Comedy Central has signed a five-year (more)

COMEDY CENTRAL TO GO INTERNATIONAL
Wednesday, December 8 2004

MTV Networks is considering rebranding one of Viacom's Paramount cable networks overseas as an international version of Comedy Central, Chairman/CEO Judy McGrath has told a media conference in New York. As reported by Advertising Age's online site, McGrath told the conference that Comedy Central had experienced "the most extraordinary year" and had become "the gold standard for talk." As a result, she said, "There's a lot of interest in Comedy Central for it to travel internationally."

CHAPPELLE'S SHOW SETS DVD SALES RECORD
Friday, October 22 2004

The double-disc DVD set of Comedy Central star Dave Chappelle's Chappelle's Show Season One: Uncensored from Paramount Home Entertainment has sold 2 million copies, breaking the previous record (for a TV series) of 1.9 million copies sold by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment's The Simpsons -- The Complete First Season, Video Store magazine reported Thursday, citing figures from Nielsen VideoScan provided by Paramount. The magazine said that under a new contract extension, Chappelle receives half (more)

COMEDY CENTRAL UNSPINS O'REILLY
Tuesday, September 28 2004
Determined not to be caught up in a spin zone created by Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Comedy Central on Monday refuted O'Reilly's assertion that his audience was composed of "stoned slackers." The channel extracted data from Nielsen Media Research to indicate that Stewart's viewers are more likely to have completed college than O'Reilly's. O'Reilly made his remarks when Stewart appeared on his show a few weeks ago. "You know what's really frightening?" O'Reilly said. (more)