Comedy Central opening titles

Comedy Central accounts for 19 shows here, running from 1988 to the present, and 21 opening title sequences between them.

Mostly comedy — 13 of the 19.

Two of them rebuilt their titles at least once.

19 shows · 21 sequences · oldest first

2 of these moved between networks during their run and appear under each one.

1 sequence

Mystery 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 sequence

The 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 sequences

South 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 sequences

Futurama

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 sequence

Strangers 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 sequence

BattleBots

2000–2002Comedy CentralDocumentary

Home-built robots destroying each other inside a perspex box, and the reason a good many engineers exist.

Season 1

1 sequence

Chappelle'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 sequence

Drawn Together

2004–2007Comedy CentralAnimation

A reality-house parody whose cast are each drawn in a different studio's style.

Seasons 1–2

1 sequence

The 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.