In Just 9 Months, Comedy Central Reshaped Late Night and Kept Advertisers Happy

Network rebounded after losing Stewart and Colbert

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Not so long ago, Comedy Central's late-night lineup consisted of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report. What a difference a year makes. "If you had told me a year and a half ago that Jon and Stephen [Colbert] would leave within 12 months of each other and we'd launch two new series in a period of nine months, I would have gone and crawled under a rock somewhere," says Michele Ganeless, the network's president.

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