Comedy Central Home Entertainment

1st Logo (1998-2000)


Logo: We see the 1997-2000 logo for Comedy Central on a black background.

Technique: The logo fading in and out.

Music/Sounds: None.

Availability: Seen on Comedy Central VHS releases of the era, including South Park volumes on VHS.

2nd Logo (2003-2004)


Logo: We zoom into the 2000 Comedy Central logo with the text "HOME VIDEO", which spins to forming the Comedy Central Home Video logo.

Technique: The zoom in and spinning.

Music/Sounds: A short techno tune, followed by the last five notes, in which became Comedy Central's signature jingle from 2000-2003.

Availability: Seen on DVD release of Chapelle's Show Season 1.

2nd Logo (2004-2006)


Logo: We zoom into the 2000 Comedy Central logo, which reveals a TV with the Comedy Central Home Video logo.

Technique: The zoom in.

Music/Sounds: A groovy guitar and drum tune.

Availability: Seen on Comedy Central DVDs of the era.

3rd Logo (2006-2009?)


Logo: We see the white Comedy Central logo printed on a wooden fence. The logo shakes and explodes into a flock of stars, but then fades to the wall once more, with "DVD" below and surrounded by stars.

Technique: The animation.

Music/Sounds: An exploding sound, followed by the short groove tune and the whinny.

Availability: Seen on the DVD of the South Park directors cut of Imaginationland and other home video releases such as the region 4 DVD release of the sixth season of South Park.

4th Logo (2009-2011)
Logo: The Comedy Central is seen with glass flying by on a black background. Suddenly, the logo zooms out, with more glass coming through it. Then a black tilted square zooms out with the text "HOME ENTERTAINMENT" forming. Some of the glass tiles tilt.

Variant: A DVD variant exists. On a black background, we zoom out to reveal a black circle. Then, multiple Comedy Central logos, circling around the ring, zoom out. Then another black circle with more Comedy Central logos zoom out. Some more logos and later many circles zoom out until we finally see one last logo. Multiple shots of it later appear with the logo in different directions. After that, we take a closeup of it as "DVD" slides in. The High Definition version also uses this variant, with "DVD" being replaced by "IN HIGH DEFINITION", sliding in word by word.

Technique: CGI. The variant is mostly 2D animation.

Music/Sounds: Mostly glass sounds, with an audience cheering at the end. The DVD variant uses the same rough guitar tune from the 2005 Comedy Central Productions logo. The High Definition variant uses a hip-hop version of the South Park end credits music.

Availability: Seen usually on Comedy Central's home media releases of the era, especially those in the Netherlands.

5th Logo (2011- )
Logo: TBA.

Technique: TBA.

Music/Sounds: TBA.

Availability: First seen on 2011-present DVD releases for South Park.