ComedyCentral.com had been home to clips from every episode of The Daily Show since 1999, and the entire run of The Colbert Report, but as of Wednesday morning, the site is gone.
June 27, 2024
"25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone as Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site."
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AI is taking over from mere humanoid talents. Enjoy.
They appear on Paramount Plus including "South Park The Streaming Wars" part 1 and 2.
As someone correctly pointed out yesterday it isn't free to host this stuff online but given the justifiable level of distrust the industry has sowed it's hard not assume nefarious intent in the removal. Politically embarrassing for the left or killing competition against their pay services comes to mind...
Ozzy man went on an AI rant yesterday. Must be his traffic is being throttled by the platforms lately...
Paramount… CBS… burn, baby, burn! 🔥
And nothing of value was lost. The end.
Well, that was fast...
I guess it was no First Corinthians.
Colbert is the dumbest man on earth not counting the Guam-might-tip-over guy, so no loss there...
Good. The left's product can't stand the test of time and deserves to burn. This is why Vox Day, among others, is so committed to saving books and online material that celebrates Western culture. Before it can be "diversified."
thank heavens
I'm sure the material will turn up somewhere. It's not gone permanently.
I love humor. So even though the Daily Show became a repetitious GOTV campaign for Democrats, it was often well done. I value comedy more than politics.
We will lose the record of peak idiocy. Potential instruction to coming generations. Future anthropologists will have to work from hard drives salvaged out of toxic waste dumps. Somewhere there is a Newhart routine in this.
"We will lose the record of peak idiocy. Potential instruction to coming generations. Future anthropologists will have to work from hard drives salvaged out of toxic waste dumps. Somewhere there is a Newhart routine in this."
Yep. I make a lot of memes. You’ve probably seen some of my work. I make memes because modern Americans have the attention span of a toddler at a petting zoo. They won’t learn about important things or read important works themselves, so you have to trick them into learning about them using pictures of near-naked women, sports, or funny references to cultural iconography and movies. It will get worse too.
Someday my sons will become meme masters, but the population will be so dumbed down they’ll have to make pornography or use coloring books to teach people about the evils of the Federal Reserve.
Paramount says “make me an offer”.
Comedy Central was always useless to me because they use geo-blocking. So my concern level is low.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you want a copy of something forever, get a copy of it.
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The great radio humorist Fred Allen wrote a book called Treadmill To Oblivion. Its point was that all this ephemera, the result of hard work, disappeared into the ether.
What happened to Craig Kilborn?
it sped up the brandoization of America, by several generations,
Never mind not owning anything, we're not going to know anything... if these trends keep up.
It used to take a war for rationing everything to take effect. What's the rationale now?
It’s hard enough to find people stupid enough to watch the crap for the first time, why save it? But it is not gone, just off the web for now.
Watching things like this is like reading 18 th century cartoons in punch magazine, a sometimes amusing thing, but not a thing to endure for long.
BTW. Most of the internet today is fake... and that's w/o the AI that's on the pipeline, not here yet. This is prep work for a future w/o a past.
The Egyptians left the pyramids behind; a sign that they were here.
The enlightenment is leaving freedom behind. But there won't be any sign that people were once free.
AI is taking over from mere humanoid talents. Enjoy.
In long-long-ago LA, popular bars/pubs in certain neighborhoods, always featured live music. Some, along and near the sand, had two or three acts a day - afternoon, happy hour and night.
Everyone with an out-of-tune guitar had a song and wanted a chance to be discovered. There were also gifted studio-level talents who just loved to play in front of an audience.
Larger venues went the DJ route for awhile. Then, many discovered they could get away with streaming AI-generated playlists.
Bean counters call it progress.
I suppose we'll eventually wind-up, wired up in some kind of sleep pods wearing virtual reality headsets and celebrate "living" for hundreds of years :-(
I read that the same thing happened to the MTV archive very recently.
It gets a conspiracy theorist thinking...memory hole being dug?
I have the same reaction as yesterday's MTV story (okay MTV news): is there not an internet archive for this a la the Wayback Machine?
Kinky Friedman, RIP.
Winston Smith’s job has been outsourced to AI and the push of a button.
Didn't something similar happen to MTV? This sounds familiar.
In long-long-ago LA, popular bars/pubs in certain neighborhoods, always featured live music.
True of 1990's NYC also. I used to hang out at 55 Bar, "speak easy" now "permanently closed".
A culture that lives by corporate mass-produced "product" dies by corporate decisions. Every type of entertainment media has a shelf life and follows human generations. There's plenty of forgotten and awful 1920s to 1990s content too...sometimes found on "radio theater" recordings, DVDs, or low budget TV.
The Colbert Report was often laugh-out-loud funny because of his intense commitment to role play a character. I was shocked by how Colbert transformed in a bad way upon moving to CBS. Unwatchable drivel. Maybe he's now intensely play-acting a stupid political partisan?
Daily deemed not viable... and other progressive themes.
There does come a point when the clips become dated, the references cease to have any meaning, or there is no one who cares anymore about the performance/topic. This is true of so much that is being stored because it's easier to do that than make a rational decision about the value of what has been saved. Does the world absolutely need to be able to call up the Howdy Doody show just because it's possible?. Hell no. I agree with those who are refusing to spend money on preserving something that has absolutely no value today.
GOD IS PUNISHING COLBERT FOR HIS SINS.
Paramount+ is the worst of the streaming services. The content is uninteresting and the mechanics of using it are annoying. However, taking content from a website with zero revenue and locking it behind the streaming paywall makes sense. Someday they might move a website that interests me ...
to clips from every episode of The Daily Show since 1999, and the entire run of The Colbert Report, but as of Wednesday morning, the site is gone.
Oh, no!
Anyway ...
1999? What about the Craig Kilborn era preceding? I worry.
I realized in the late 90s that we were entering into a new dark ages. Like the earlier one it's not a lack of culture or goings on. It's a lack of records that future generations can use to know what we were like.
From romantic relationships to music videos and so much else, much of our expressed humanity will just be gone and there's not going to be any archeology that can discover it anew.
People are going to interpret us by what was left in the 20th century.
You know, back in the day, if you wanted a copy of something that was televised, you had a VCR and you recorded on videotape things you yourself wanted to save. If you rely on others to do things, you will be disappointed.
So I find it hard to complain too much about the actions of a Corporation trying (shortsightedly in my opinion) to save money by not storing things.
So?
This is why it's important to have hard copy and real physical media.
I don't understand why they merely deleted it, when they could have sold it for something above zero.
NASA famously recorded over its tapes of the moon landing back in the 80s. That's a bigger deal.
It isn't like they lost something of value, like "You Bet Your Life".
Available at the portal...
https://www.amazon.com/You-Bet-Your-Life-Episodes/dp/B0000ALFZ0
George Fenneman collected kinescopes before they were set to be destroyed "to make room", IIRC.
Oh noes.....anyway.
On a serious note with the joke out of the way- the loss of the work of Kurt Loder is a far greater loss than the work of Colbert.
Up next- the deletion of the work of Samantha Bee.
indeed he did seem to know what was going on
See how incredibly convenient electronic storage can be?
The Colbert Report? It never happened. You just imagined it. Go back to sleep.
I pay for Paramount+ for the star trek stuff. I even like the cartoon "Star Trek Lower Decks". So its worth the cost for me.
Contrary to popular belief, the Internet is NOT forever.
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