Name: What Happened to Comedy Central?
Uploaded: 2023-10-11T19:52:40.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happened to Comedy Central?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-11. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What Happened to Comedy Central?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-10-11. Transcript available.

were you bummed when the roast kind of went away did that bum you out no i was
i was uh i was happy
to do three and then done perch for you yeah and it was i mean it was all i
wanted to do i was like
building my act towards getting on that the trump roast was like my big break
my life was night and
day after that then the sheen roast came like a couple months later it wasn't
that long and that
was even bigger and that i felt insane pressure because i was like well that
was my big break and
i those were jokes that i've been working on forever now i've got four months
this is my
sophomore album that could tank and i didn't want it to seem like oh i got
lucky so that roast was so
stressful and then it was like a year until the roseanne was my last one and
that was a letdown
it wasn't have the same uh like hype to it that trump and sheen had yeah like
the next i'm right i showed
the next weekend and like the ticket sales were just normal like it wasn't like
i didn't get the bump that
i got after sheen and trump and i was like you know i don't really want to do
this anymore it's like it's
just not fun telling the same kinds of jokes and i didn't approach it like jeff
ross who was just like
jeff ross could do it forever right to anyone no one's getting mad he's just
perfect at it my thing
was like to like darth vader like i was coming to kill everyone there and it
just i didn't want to
do it again that people ask me every now and again i'm like it would take it
would take a lot it would
it would have to be money because i just feel like i've done it and i feel like
i did it perfectly right
to come back it just i feel the pressure you know i feel the pressure to
perform like the audience might
be there to see me and they've loved my last four hours but this fifth hour
better measure up or i feel
terrible so yeah it's just hype yeah and i guess once you do something and
doing it well then that's
enough knowing when to not do something anymore is important do you think
comedy central how they mess
up i mean they were caught they were the only comedy network viacom it up for
everybody at a time when
disney was buying marvel at a time where disney was buying you know like warner
brothers all this
shit yeah viacom was just like enriching themselves they weren't investing and
then when streaming came
along it just wiped them all out but like mtv's gone and comedy central still
technically around but
it's like five people now and they're not getting to stand up that maybe things
come back a little
bit but it was just they and i've talked to many many people over there over
the years about what
happened but it's crazy though like you were the comedy network you had comedy
yeah i remember it took
them forever to get into like social they just didn't they were like so behind
somehow so bad yeah
just didn't didn't really care that much didn't have to but they're figuring
out now and they made
some they just didn't have they didn't have that good a pay like they only had
a few shows that really
crushed it for them i think you know and they wouldn't pay to get three seasons
was almost impossible
even two was like a stretch i mean look it's like snl you see the people who
like didn't get s who
like auditioned for snl and didn't get her got fired after a year you know and
their careers how
amazing it's been like a sarah silverman or something um that uh comedy central
is the same
way it's like all these huge stars that like people think comedy central let
them go it's like
they couldn't afford them yeah what john oliver's what i'm not john john oliver's
making hbo versus
what he made on comedy central is insane uh stephen colbert you know had to
leave at comedy central they
just didn't have the money there yeah schumer owed uh amy schumer owed them
another season i think of her
show i don't know if she ended up doing it or not but i remember she had the
what is this show called
inside amy schumer inside amy schumer i think they contractually had one more
season
that she was supposed to do this because then she just blew up so much that she
just didn't
and maybe they just did like a buyout of it or something i just remember she
did it she did one
for paramount plus oh she did oh maybe that was it then yeah maybe that was it
um
i was like i have friends who would like sign a deal get paid and then like
hope the network
forgets about it oh yeah remember quibi oh yeah god i wish i had taken a deal
from them
it's for this free money deal yeah they're like here's a hundred grand three
weeks later we're
totally out of business like what's the best job you've ever had in terms of
that like for me it was
uh judging roast battle where it was just like every night i go i show up oh
yeah like you're you're
they're they're paying you amazing and you don't have to prepare anything you
just sit there and then
they do their bit and then you think of a joke and you say it and then it's
everything that's great
and if you mess up they edit it out like it's so cool zero pressure paid paid
uh a ton and uh and
just so much fun i love that that was yeah one of the best jobs i ever had
actually was a comedy
central job it was called um reality bites back i watched i watched reality
bites back uh amy had it
all on like dvd and we watched it so good show was so funny i can't believe it
didn't like no one
watched it but it was it was great i can't believe they didn't start to re-air
things that they had
that were great but i guess they don't have is that a fiscal maybe they have to
re-rent it from
themselves i don't know how that works i think just no one watched it no one
was watching it if they
would re-run it they were just like let's let's get rid of this but it had like
schumers on it uh
uh tiffany haddish burke kreish like if they put it out now it seemed like it
would do fine yeah you
would think you know it's it's weird how comedy doesn't live that long even if
it is all like
the stars of yesterday people just they'd rather watch you now but it's like i
can watch like uh
summer heights high right have you ever seen that oh yeah and uh and they don't
it's still get it's
still like so ridiculous it still gets me but it's like i mean one of the best
shows comedy central ever
made was um strangers with candy and they never re-ran that like ever you have
to like you had to find
it on i used to buy it on ebay i'd buy like a season on ebay for someone who
burned like the dvds
that show was amazing my favorite roast of all time was the roast of chevy
chase the one that was like
a fiasco but it's like todd berry andy kindler like mark marin of the roasters
and it's so awesome
but it tanked and they like comedy central was like we threw it away like you
can if you can find it on
youtube go for it but we don't have a copy of it we'll never rerun it and we
just got rid of it that's
crazy it seems like if you put the roast of chevy chase on a network tv right
now people would tune
in like what do you think about like our netflix specials like things we've
done there's no physical
media anymore like that can all go away and you're left with like nothing and
that's wild to me that a
corporation who knows what you get canceled for but they can just be like all
your work is gone
it's gone as if it never existed there's nothing you can do nothing oh it's
very scary i think you
know i went to the last blockbuster not long ago where's that it's in bend oregon
yes and i have an
ex-girlfriend that lives up there and it's a beautiful town and uh and i went
in there and you know what's
fascinating the most fascinating was how you used to see you saw so many titles
you're over here it's like
in bruges and here's like you know uh daddy daycare or whatever you know here's
like you know uh llama
town or whatever and it's like oh fuck i you don't know what to choose but you
see so i mean you were
here and then you were in and you'd walk through like i oh i forgot about this
movie this is great
i've never seen this but it was so different than when you go to a platform on
your television and you
see 10 titles it was another it felt like you actually here's what it felt like
i'm realizing
it felt like you actually had a choice in what you were choosing in the blockbuster
right then as
opposed to on the tv where it feels like this is what you we're serving today
even though that's not it
you can go look for stuff but it's just not it what it didn't register the same
no and it's it's
even annoying where netflix i don't they still do this but like if they know
you're something's right
up your alley like they have all your algorithm whatever there was a movie that
came out like
a couple years ago right before my like last special came out now so i was
talking to netflix
at the time and have you ever seen the night comes for us did you ever see the
raid or the raid 2
it's kind of like a martial like a super violent martial arts movie where
people are just fighting
with like machetes and shit and it's awesome and i see it and i'm like this is
the best
fucking thing i've ever seen why wouldn't netflix tell me hey good news we got
this new movie for you
and so they told me basically if they know you're gonna see it if they know
like this is right up your
alley they won't put it on your screen because then you'll go look for it and i
want you to find other
things on your way to it that's like you can't they know what you want but they're
still
gonna make you look for it and that makes me fucking crazy
you