By Paramount has effectively gutted the Comedy Central website, closing off its repository of clips that included video from every episode of “The Colbert Report” and of “The Daily Show” since 1999.
Twenty-five years of TV history vanished as Paramount Global tries to push fans to its Paramount+ service. Though plenty of clips remain free on YouTube, those go back only to 2015 and not to the heyday of these shows in the 2000s.
The shutdown follows in the wake of other Paramount-owned properties also scrubbing content including MTV.com with its extensive MTV News archives, TVLand.com and CMT.com.
All of the domains remain active, but a pop-up notice on each homepage tells readers:
“While most episodes of [insert channel here] series are no longer available on this website, you can watch [insert channel here] through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of [insert channel here] shows.”
A Paramount Global rep tells Variety: “As part of broader website changes across Paramount, we have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows.”
Unfortunately many older episodes of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” are unavailable on Paramount+. Also gone are clips and episodes of “The Opposition With Jordan Klepper,” “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore,” “@midnight” and “Lights Out With David Spade”.
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