Comedy Central
19 shows, 21 sequences, oldest first.
2 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.
1 sequenceMystery Science Theater 3000
1988–1999, 2017–2018Comedy Central / Sci-Fi Channel / NetflixComedy
A man and two robots heckling films, whose theme song exists to explain the premise and then says so out loud.
- Season 1
1 sequenceThe Daily Show
1996–Comedy CentralComedy
A news-graphics package rebuilt for each of its four hosts, and the programme that made the fake-news desk a form.
- Season 1
2 sequencesSouth Park
1997–Comedy CentralAnimation
A banjo, a cut-paper Colorado town and four boys at a bus stop — re-recorded and re-animated repeatedly across nearly thirty years while staying recognisably the same twenty-nine seconds.
- Season 1
- Season 15
2 sequencesFuturama
1999–Fox / Comedy Central / HuluAnimation
Like The Simpsons, an opening built to differ every week — a new caption under the logo and a different scrap of old cartoon on the screen the ship flies past — wrapped around Christopher Tyng's theme and a crash into a billboard.
- Seasons 1–4
- Seasons 6–7
1 sequenceStrangers with Candy
1999–2000Comedy CentralComedy
An after-school special inverted: a forty-six-year-old ex-convict returning to high school as a freshman.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBattleBots
2000–2002Comedy CentralDocumentary
Home-built robots destroying each other inside a perspex box, and the reason a good many engineers exist.
- Season 1
1 sequenceChappelle's Show
2003–2006Comedy CentralComedy
Twenty-two seconds of animation and a beat, for the sketch show that defined a decade of American comedy in two and a half seasons.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDrawn Together
2004–2007Comedy CentralAnimation
A reality-house parody whose cast are each drawn in a different studio's style.
- Seasons 1–2
1 sequenceThe Colbert Report
2005–2014Comedy CentralComedy
An eagle, a flag and a barrage of adjectives flying at the camera — a parody of cable-news branding so precise that cable news started copying it back.
- Season 1
1 sequenceWorkaholics
2011–2017Comedy CentralComedy
Three telemarketers who share a house and a job and never leave either, in thirteen seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBrickleberry
2012–2015Comedy CentralAnimation
A national park staffed entirely by people who should not be near one, opened in ten seconds.
- Season 1
1 sequenceKey & Peele
2012–2015Comedy CentralComedy
Twenty-six seconds and two names, from a sketch show that spent its budget on the sketches.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDrunk History
2013–2019Comedy CentralComedy
History retold by someone too drunk to tell it, lip-synced straight-faced by actors in costume.
- Season 1
1 sequenceInside Amy Schumer
2013–2022Comedy CentralComedy
A sketch show with stand-up and street interviews between, and eleven seconds to get into it.
- Season 1
1 sequenceNathan For You
2013–2017Comedy CentralComedy
Twenty-seven seconds of business-advice-show graphics, delivered with the flatness that makes everything after it land.
- Season 1
1 sequenceBroad City
2014–2019Comedy CentralComedy
Abbi and Ilana's New York, opened in ten seconds of hand-drawn scribble.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAnother Period
2015–2018Comedy CentralComedy
Newport in 1902 shot as a reality series, with the confessional interviews and everything.
- Season 2
1 sequenceMoonbeam City
2015Comedy CentralAnimation
A Patrick Nagel pastiche in neon and chrome, which is the entire aesthetic argument of the series.
- Season 1
1 sequenceDetroiters
2017–2018Comedy CentralComedy
Two advertising men making local commercials in Detroit, played by two friends who grew up there.
- Season 1