“Unfortunately for those in search of older episodes of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, neither can be found on Paramount+.”
ComedyCentral.com held clips from every Daily Show episode since 1999 and the full run of The Colbert Report. Paramount wiped them Wednesday morning, days after MTV.com and CMT.com went dark. The company carries more than $14 billion in debt and calls the purge “more streamlined versions of our sites.” Paramount sends fans to a paid service that doesn’t have the shows, and calls deleting a quarter century of television history streamlining.