Jon Stewart and Trevor Noah on ‘The Every day Present’ in 2015
Every day Present/Comedy Central
A company resolution to clean Comedy Central‘s web site of a lot of its content material isn’t sitting properly with a variety of former and present Every day Present staffers.
The websites for Comedy Central and fellow Paramount-owned cable channels CMT, Paramount Community and TV Land, had been largely stripped of content material this week; what’s left largely redirects customers to the corporate’s streaming platform, Paramount+. The media conglomerate additionally shut down the MTV Information website earlier this week.
Paramount, which is trying to minimize half a billion {dollars} in prices amid declining income, mentioned the gutting of the websites was “a part of broader web site modifications throughout” the corporate.
“Now we have launched extra streamlined variations of our websites, driving followers to Paramount+ to observe their favourite exhibits,” the corporate mentioned in an announcement.
Paramount+, nevertheless, solely has the 2 most up-to-date seasons of The Every day Present obtainable for streaming. Comedy Central’s web site beforehand hosted an enormous archive of episodes and clips masking many of the present’s historical past (together with fellow late-night exhibits @midnight, The Colbert Report, The Nightly Present and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper). That archive is now gone. Some materials is on YouTube, however The Every day Present’s channel there, as an illustration, doesn’t have any materials from earlier than 2016.
“Gotta carry again the bootleg DVD man,” former Every day Present correspondent Roy Wooden Jr. wrote on X. This shit ain’t proper.” Doug Herzog, who headed Comedy Central when The Every day Present launched, reposted Wooden’s assertion in an Instagram Story and added a facepalm emoji to a screenshot of a information merchandise about Paramount’s gutting of the web site.
On Bluesky, Every day Present author and producer Daniel Radosh famous that the present’s employees would recurrently use the clip archive on the web site: “Hey for further enjoyable guess what was the one method for individuals who nonetheless work on the present to search out outdated clips which are essential to have in the middle of producing mentioned present!” he wrote.
Tim Carvell, an government producer of Final Week Tonight With John Oliver and 10-year Every day Present veteran, took a shot at Paramount in a Bluesky submit: “2002: ‘Cautious, youngsters, the Web is endlessly!’ 2024: ‘Oh, hey, all of the work you probably did for a decade of your life was simply deleted from the Web for Enterprise Causes.’”