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Before the name "Comedy Central" existed, the network was owned by an outfit called "Comedy Partners" founded by none other than Viacom, Inc. and Time-Life (later Time Warner, now WarnerMedia). Time Warner's HBO unit had expanded into basic cable with a channel called "The Comedy Channel". Similarly, Viacom was operating "Ha! TV Comedy Network". After both channels took a hit, the two compromised and created a jointly-owned company as "Comedy Partners", merging both channels into "CTV: The Comedy Network", but later renamed it to "Comedy Central" in order to save confusion from Canada's CTV network. In April 2003, Time Warner sold their half of Comedy Partners for $1.23 billion, resulting in Viacom owning 100% of Comedy Central and the network was made part of the MTV Networks (now ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks).

 

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'''Logo:''' The Comedy Central globe of the era (which does not tilt to the side, has yellow text, and a heliotrope top) is posed on the background of several, rusty tires on a junkyard. The "COMEDY-CENTRAL" marquee spins around from time to time.

'''Music/Sounds/Voice-over:''' Penn Jillette saying, "This has been a presentation from Comedy Central!".

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'''Logo:''' Up against a black background, we see the normal 1995 Comedy Central globe from the era emitting blue circles with cheesy drawings of buildings below that move around and a giant moon to the left showing a reverse version of the Comedy Central globe spinning rapidly.

'''Music/Sounds/Voice-over:''' Penn Jillette says: "This has been a presentation from Comedy Central" along with some men scatting and whistling the network's generic tune from the time throughout, and ending with a man shouting "HEY!".

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'''Logo:''' It begins with a shot of a credit card being inserted into what is presumably an ATM. It then switches to a shot of an ATM screen, whose text, in green, is being "drawn" down from top to bottom and in a computer-type font. The text reads "THIS HAS BEEN A PRESENTATION OF:", followed by the Comedy Central logo (in green, and with the logo tilted to its side with the name written in a different font), and then "THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE" appears under the logo. The last line "blinks" a few times, becoming highlighted in green with the text in black.

*Similar to the next logo, South Park episodes on their website have a copyright stamp added to the logo, along with the Comedy Central URL.

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'''Logo:''' On a background with wavy blue and gray lines, a slightly revamped version of the Comedy Central logo appears at the bottom (in blue and yellow), at first distorted, but quickly sharpening up. The transmitter on the top of the logo "activates" and then many yellow "this has been a presentation of" rings begin to emerge from the transmitter. A white copyright stamp is shown below, along with the "comedycentral.com" URL.

'''Trivia:''' Comedy Central's logo was slightly redesigned during this period, to give it a more smoother look; most notably, the small hyphen ( - ) from the "COMEDY CENTRAL" marquee was removed and the buildings are now on the United States of America, with South Africa placed further down on the globe.

'''Variant:''' Sometimes, the logo has no copyright stamp; only the URL in black. South Park episodes that did not have it were later added below on the southparkstudios.com versions.

'''Editor's Note:''' This logo was/is a favorite of many.

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'''Logo:''' On a background with what looks like bubbles floating around, the Comedy Central logo, now in white, zooms-in from the center of the screen, glowing. Above it is "THIS HAS BEEN A PRESENTATION OF...", and below it is the copyright stamp for the show (usually © [YEAR] Comedy Partners, Inc. All Rights Reserved). This logo has five different color palettes:

*Silver background with red and silver bubbles.

*Blue background with dark blue bubbles.

*Green background with green and dark green bubbles.

*Red background with dark red bubbles.

*Urobilin background with urobilin bubbles.

*Purple background with purple bubbles.

*Blue background with purple bubbles.

*A variant on ''Upright Citizens Brigade'' exists where the logo switches between the blue/dark blue, silver/red, and green/dark green palettes quickly.

'''FX/SFX:''' The zoom-in and logo design are rather generic, especially compared to the last one.

'''Availability:''' The silver/red/silver, blue/dark blue, green/green/dark green and red/dark red ones are uncommon. The yellow, purple, and blue/purple ones are rare. First seen on season 2 episodes of ''Comedy Central Presents'' and last seen on the ''Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist'' episode "Lerapy". The blue variant might have been seen on ''South Park'' episodes from this era, but the only evidence this logo appeared on the show is the blue-variant appearing on the episode "Prehistoric Ice Man" on the second season DVD (the rest of the episodes end with the previous logo). Nearly all of the colors can be found on DVDs of ''Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist'' episodes from the era. It also appeared on Craig Kilborn/early Jon Stewart-era ''The Daily Show'' episodes and ''Comedy Central Presents'' episodes from the era. The blue version can also be seen on the DVD of ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'', at the end of ''Comedy Central's Canned Ham: The Dr. Evil Story'' (a fake documentary tying in with the film).  

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'''Logo:''' Over a shaded orange background, we see lots of yellow circles zooming toward the viewer. The circles have zooms-up bits of the current Comedy Central logo (much like the original, but looking more abstract, with different buildings and a different font) and the text '''"THIS HAS BEEN A PRESENTATION OF"''' scrolling to the right. When the circles are done, we are treated with the end product, the updated Comedy Central logo in the center with '''"THIS HAS BEEN A PRESENTATION OF"''' above in black, and "comedycentral.com" below, in white. There is a backdrop of circles zooming behind the logo.

*Versions where the background is blue or green instead of orange exist.

===7th Logo (2004- )===

 

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'''Logo:''' On a yellow-orange background, we see the movements of different graffiti styles and a grunge-like Comedy Central logo, then it zooms in to the logo in the center with "this has been a presentation of" above in, and "comedycentral.com" below.

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'''Logo:''' We see the then-current Comedy Central logo close up. It then zooms out and cuts to the text "THIS HAS BEEN" and "A PRESENTATION OF" sliding next to a melting white cube-like thing. "THIS HAS BEEN" flickers. It then cuts to the Comedy Central logo again. close up again as the text slides again on an angle. The white in the logo disappears as it turns black. The text flickers again and we see the logo appear once again in white. Everything flickers. as the logo changes position and from black to white. This all continues until it cuts to black.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as the last logo.

* Notable releases with this logo include seasons four through six ''South Park'' as well as season 2 of ''Reno 911!''.

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'''Logo:''' Up against a lime green background, we see an extreme close-up of a white grunge-like Comedy Central logo with the circles in the letters "O" and "R" filled in, skewed to the right that flashes a bit, then it suddenly cuts to a normal version of the logo next to a green, white, and blue cloud with the text "PRODUCTIONS" in a grunge-like font with all circles filled in. A copyright stamp with the year of the South Park episode next to it appears below in white.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A bad guitar tune.

'''Logo:''' Up against a robin's egg blue background, the camera zooms into the upper right corner of the new Comedy Central logo that features a black letter "C" inside a bigger reverse black "C", revealing the white bold text "COMEDY CENTRAL" with the new logo in the upper right corner of the text. We zoom into the new logo, revealing the "COMEDY CENTRAL" text from before, but with the word "CENTRAL" backwards. The new Comedy Central logo squeezes into the middle of the text.

'''Logo:''' On a dark-gray background, the two Cs from the previous logo briefly wipe in while flickering. Then, the remaining "COMEDY" and "CENTRAL" (with "CENTRAL" upside-down) appear in between, left and right respectively. The final result has a robin's egg blue color similar to the background of the previous logo. A copyright stamp appears below.

'''Variant:''' This would share the screen with other logos.