Daily Show, Colbert now on Hulu
Cory Bergman June 9th, 2008
In a surprising development, Viacom-owned Comedy Central has inked a deal to bring The Daily Show and Colbert Report to Hulu. “We had to check and make sure the press release wasn’t a joke,” writes CNET’s Caroline McCarthy. You may remember, Viacom chose not to participate in the Hulu joint venture (NBCU-News Corp), electing instead to provide content to Joost. “But now that the Joost hype has faded completely, experimenting with Hulu’s ad-supported distribution seems logical,” McCarthy writes. Says Michael Arrington at TechCrunch: “Game over, Hulu wins.”
Update: Both shows are already up on Hulu, but at this writing, there are only a handful of episodes.
5 Comments Add your own
1. discreet_chaos | June 10th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I just noticed that the full episodes are now available on the show site (as was discussed in a recent LR post), so all the way around, everybody wins and now that they’re on Hulu, I can add them to my queue.
2. theTVaddict | June 10th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Everybody wins, accept everyone outside of the US who still can’t get access to Hulu. That, and oh yeah… how well does Hulu work on a plane? In a Car? Not so much.
3. discreet_chaos | June 10th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
TVaddict: Does ComedyCentral also have the restriction to only US IPs?
4. Anonymous | June 11th, 2008 at 4:06 am
If I ever fix this braindead OS/browser, I might watch.
5. Anonymous | June 11th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
It runs Flash again and I didn’t do anything, I swear, Now if I could get the audio going again. See, Liz, I guarantee I don’t operate a newspaper. I don’t even have enough clothes hangers at the moment, for that matter.
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