Daniel Roberts: There’s a collection of old Daily Shows available for purchase on Amazon Prime (I bought it last week, so hopefully safe if they try to pull it too). Some of the great ones included but obviously there’s no way to capture the entire corpus in one collection.

2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!" 2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons." latenighter.com/news/paramou...

Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gonelatenighter.com One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.

This reminds me a bit of the 1960s BBC destroying all kinds of programs on tape because they didn't want to have to pay for the storage. Lots of shows lost as a result.

PS I don't know what the storage situation is for the Daily Show. (Can you buy old episodes? Is it backed up somewhere?) OTOH to the degree to which "everything is online", this is throwing that bit of cultural history down the memory hole.

As sad as it is that the online archive is unavailable, it seems fairly unlikely that Paramount actually destroyed all the original media. "Not available for free online" is not the same as "totally wiped from our private archives."

Agreed!

There’s a collection of old Daily Shows available for purchase on Amazon Prime (I bought it last week, so hopefully safe if they try to pull it too). Some of the great ones included but obviously there’s no way to capture the entire corpus in one collection.

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