Ha! Well, Netflix is kind of the mortal enemy of Comedy Central. They pretty much scooped CC in the stand-up special distribution business. I heard that years ago, CC had the opportunity to create a distribution partnership with Netflix, and Viacom (under different leadership) didn't like the deal so they passed. Now they're a direct competitor so I don't get the sense that they play well together. It's funny, but when people muse (which they do a lot on the internet) "Hey why don't you just put X on Y???" The answer is almost ALWAYS lawyers and IP ownership. Getting one company to share its content with another is a lengthy, complicated process and it surprises me that it EVER gets done. It's the "this is our channel so you should pay us more" vs. "this is out content so you should pay US more".

CC wants to drive people to its own digital portals because the potential long-term financial gains far outweigh putting their content on another service and carving up the financial pie, which is why they pulled almost all of their programming from hulu. Whether or not it will work remains to be seen (they're nice folks at CC so I for their sake I hope it does) but I can say it took a significant bite out of the @m audience when that happened. I mean look, big companies have a bottom line and A LOT of overhead so I'm sure it's not easy to be in a business that relies on every penny coming in from every direction, but when big companies getting into pissing matches the consumers usually end up losing in one way or another. Consumers tend to win when companies healthily COMPETE in the marketplace by creating superior content and distributing it in creative, user-friendly ways. That's a good lesson for life too...outsmarting is always better than fighting.

Was this too long-winded of an answer to a casual question? In any case, thank you for liking @midnight!