Paramount Comedy

Paramount Comedy
Launched	1996 (Middle East & North Africa) May 1, 2012 (Russia)
Closed	2000 (Middle East & North Africa)
Owned by	Viacom Media Networks (Viacom)
Country	Russia
Broadcast area	Russia
Website	Official website

Paramount Comedy is a 24-hour Russian cable television and satellite television comedy channel available in Russia, launched in 2012. It is owned by Viacom International Media Networks Europe and Viacom. In other parts of the world, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy and Spain, the channel is known as Comedy Central.

Paramount Comedy Channel was launched as a television brand in the United Kingdom on November 1, 1995. In the Republic of Ireland a Paramount Comedy Channel targeting the Irish market was launched on May 9, 2004. The channel was launched in Spain in March, 1999. The channel also launched in Middle East and North Africa in 1996, but it went defunct in 2000.

In both the United Kingdom and Spain the channel originally shared the broadcast channel with corporate sibling Nickelodeon, but later the two separated. In Arabia, the channel timeshared with TV Land but the two networks disappeared in 2000. It broadcasts a mixture of comedy series (both local and international) and original programming with local and international comedians.

Paramount Comedy 1 was a television channel shown in the UK, available through digital satellite (Sky Digital) and cable (Virgin Media and UPC Ireland). As the name suggests, it is owned by Paramount Pictures (itself owned by Viacom) and concentrates on comedy. Paramount was not the first all-comedy channel in the UK; that distinction goes to The Comedy Channel, which had closed some years earlier.

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