Comedy Central (Netherlands) is a Dutch television channel equivalent to Comedy Central. The channel is available on cable, digital terrestrial, iptv, and satellite operators in the Netherlands. It broadcasts many imports as well as original programming. It launched on April 30, 2007 replacing former channel The Box Comedy.

Comedy Central (Netherlands) was timesharing with Nickelodeon until January 1 of 2011, when it moved to the TMF channel. Currently Comedy Central (Netherlands) is broadcasting 15 hours a day, between 15:00 and 06:00 (CET) on the old TMF channel and replaced TMF in its entirely in 2011. In the mornings Kindernet is broadcasting between 06:00 and 15:00 (CET).

There are also two other, 24 hours a day broadcasting, Comedy Central channels available in the Netherlands, named Comedy Central Family and Comedy Central Extra. These channels are only available on digital cable.

As of April 3 of 2012 Comedy Central (Netherlands) is also available in HD.

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Comedy Central in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a localised version of Comedy Central which first began in the United States in the 1990s. The television channel is available through Sky, Virgin Media, Smallworld Cable and TalkTalk TV in the United Kingdom, and through Sky Ireland, UPC Ireland and Magnet Networks in Ireland. The channel's programming concentrates solely on comedy.

The channel was rebranded from Paramount Comedy 1 to Comedy Central at 9:00 pm on 6 April 2009.

The channel premiered as The Paramount Channel on 1 November 1995, with a broadcast of the film Raiders of the Lost Ark. The original schedule was a mixture of comedy and drama, as well as films from the Paramount Pictures film library, including such eclectic offerings as Beauty and the Beast, several anime productions acquired from Manga Entertainment, and authentic Paramount archive programming like The Magician. The drama shows were later dropped and the schedule became 100% comedy, hence the change of name to the Paramount Comedy Channel on 1 September 1997. The 'Channel' part of the name was dropped on 1 July 2002.

Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated.

Since late 2006, Comedy Central has expanded globally with localized channels in Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Latin America, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom / Ireland and Spain.

A channel which serves Asia will launch in 2012.

On November 15, 1989, Time Warner, owners of HBO, launched The Comedy Channel as the first cable channel devoted exclusively to comedy-based programming. On April 1, 1990, Viacom (who owned MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon) launched a rival channel called Ha! that featured reruns of situation comedies and some original sketch comedy.

The Comedy Channel's programs were originated from the HBO Downtown Studios at 120 East 23rd Street in Manhattan. The format prior to the merger with Ha! included several original and unconventional programs such as Onion World with Rich Hall and Mystery Science Theater 3000, as well as laid-back variety/talk shows hosted by comedians, including The Sweet Life with Rachel Sweet, Night After Night with Allan Havey, Sports Monster and The Higgins Boys and Gruber, the latter of whom performed sketches in between showings of vintage television serials like Supercar, Clutch Cargo, and Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp.