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| Country | Spain |
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| Broadcast area | Spain Andorra Equatorial Guinea |
| Network | Comedy Central |
| Headquarters | Madrid |
| Programming | |
| Language | Spanish |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) 576i (SDTV) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Paramount Networks EMEAA |
| Sister channels | MTV Paramount Network Nickelodeon Nick Jr. |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 March 1999 |
| Former names | Paramount Comedy (1 March 1999-13 May 2014) |
Comedy Central is a Spanishpay television channel owned byParamount Global under itsParamount Networks EMEAA division.
Comedy Central in Spain was launched on 1 March 1999.[1] Likethe British version of Comedy Central, the channel originally used the name Paramount Comedy and only broadcast from 7PM to 7AM, due to sharing its signal withNickelodeon,[2] but later on 1 February 2005 both channel gained independent signals.[3] It broadcasts a mixture of comedy series (both Spanish and international) and original programming with Spanish comedians.
The original programming is produced under the umbrella of theNuevos Cómicos (new comedians) program. The originalNuevos Cómicos program is astand up comedy program, whose comedians also make theater performance tours since 2001.[4] Some of them areJoaquín Reyes, Carlos Clavijo, Alejandro Angelini, Belén Rubio,Ernesto Sevilla, Diego Wainstein, Micky McPhantom, Juan Diego Martín,Raúl Cimas, Carlos Ramos, Ignatius, Don Mauro, Ricardo Castella, Alex O´Dogherty, Julián López,Dani Mateo, Sandra Marchena, Velilla Valbuena andÁngel Martín.
Other programs developed from comedians who started inNuevos Cómicos are the sketch programLa hora Chanante and late night showsNoche sin tregua andNada Que Perder.
On 1 September 2009, the channel got a new logo, similar to the one used byComedy Central in the 2000s although the channel still retained the Paramount Comedy name.[5] On 14 May 2014 the channel was rebranded, and finally adopted the Comedy Central name.[6]
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In May 2014, when Paramount Comedy was rebranded Comedy Central the first televised roast in Spain was broadcast. The roast was recorded one month earlier in the Teatro Calderón theatre inMadrid. El Terrat produced the two roasts made to this date
| Roastee | Roast master(s) | Original release date | ES viewers (millions) | |
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| Alex O'Dogherty | 14 May 2014 (2014-05-14) | - | ||
Roasters:El Gran Wyoming,Anna Simón,Angy Fernández, Kiko Rivera,Alex de la Iglesia,Silvia Abril,Carlos Areces andJorge Sanz | ||||
| Andreu Buenafuente | 12 July 2015 (2015-07-12) | - | ||
Roasters: Pablo Carbonell,Loles León,Arturo Valls,Yolanda Ramos,Falete, Antonio Castelo andSantiago Segura Raimundo Amador andthe roastee himself made a musical number | ||||
| Anabel Alonso | 24 February 2019 (2019-02-24) | - | ||
Roasters: Ignatius Farray, Marta González de Vega,Luis Piedrahita,Miguel Ángel Revilla, Josema Yuste, andSantiago Segura | ||||
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