You can still watch some of the segments in the Comedy Central website, but their player sucks and you have to bear with the video ads.
It is obvious that this was going to occur, but now that Google bought youtube everything is going to be removed more rapidly.

Well, the end is nigh for Daily Show / Colbert domination of the Sift (two of my favourite US shows, but I overdose on it every time I logon here). P.S. I'm such a hypocrite for posting a Daily Show yesterday!

Yeah, this was a pretty awful pr move on the part of comedy central. The "mother load" is a load alright, but I would be more likely to associate words like steaming, and dung, rather than quaint gold rush terminology.

Let's see, no Japanese TV clips, no Robot Chicken, no Daily show, no Colbert, no South Park...what will be next, Simpsons? Once they go, what else is there?!

James Roe, I think Comedy Central did whats best for it's own interests. Most of the clips on Youtube tend to cover too much of the show and are captured poorly (usually audio wise), Comedy Central clearly wants to divert this traffic from Youtube back to ComedyCentral.com which also covers TDS clips. Am more glad then sad about this, the Sift has been too much of a Comedy Central marketing firm. Hopefully this would mean more rare and unique treasures will be uploaded to Youtube.

This is bad for them for promoting internationally (only works in the US)...or does MotherLoad (of kack coding) not work for just me?

i can't say that i won't be sorry to see those shows go from youtube and consequently VS. i'm with farhad on this one ... there were just too many here.

on another note ... what does this mean for sifters when a video gets discarded ... do they lose the votes said video garnered?? i hope the top 15 ranks don't slide all over the place! eeek!

the end of the politics channel?

LadyBug: I believe discarded submissions lose points. You might want to start a new VideoTalk for this.

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That's correct - discarded videos do indeed lose points. I think that has something to do with my rapid decline.

I think that the only good thing I can say about this is, at least we are spread across a few videohosts. If YouTube died tomorrow, VideoSift would still be around, although in a greatly reduced state. mmmm. Time to add new hosts!

Smooth move, Comedy Central. Youtube would have been the only catalyst to me watching your channel. Oh well!

I've dropped a place in the rankings since the Comedy Central wipe started. Two, since Siftbot started looking for dead videos. Hmmph.

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YouTube Pulling Comedy Central Clips? Not Necessarily

FishbowlNY spent about 25 minutes on YouTube this afternoon, and the news of an all-out purge seems to have been a bit premature. For instance, a user named "SouthParkSeason10" reports he "just recently got suspended," yet his "Director's Channel" page continues to play clips of the show.

A simple search for "south park" turned up 6,714 results — and not one of the handful of clips we checked [including the one above] had been pulled.

According to some users, it appears that clips under 5 minutes in were not removed. Those over 5 minutes were.

YouTube has yet to respond to FishbowlNY's e-mails seeking comment.

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.....shank god, raze allah, also, spank Zarathustra, Yes!! Now, perhaps, folks will go back to the cathode ray nipple, or god forbid, submit some public domain posts and provide, THEIR editorials, instead of a bunch of writers with agendas-and the amount of toilet references should drop, with southpark gone....


boo booo hooo and good riddance, comedy central....