Comedy Central exits Germany

Germany: Germans don't have a sense of humor, what were they thinking trying to open this over there?

The media firm's MTV Networks Germany unit is shutting down a local version of Comedy Central just two years after its launch. Comedy Central Germany will be folded together with kids channel NICK, starting next year. Hit Nickelodeon shows including "Dora the Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" will be shown during the day, with more mature programing including "Futurama" and "Dharma and Greg" as well as Comedy Central's own "The Daily Show" and "South Park" filling up the evening slots. Comedy Central has been struggling in Germany since its much-ballyhooed debut in 2006. Instead of branding itself as cutting edge, the German channel aired reruns of decidedly mainstream sitcoms like "The Golden Girls." The channel also killed the jokes, in the opinion of many local TV critics, by dubbing such cult shows "Seinfeld" as "The Sarah Silverman Program" into German.

On the other hand I can see why they failed.