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| show_name = Tosh.0 | |
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| image = Tosh 0-titleCard.png |
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| genre = [[Television comedy|Comedy]] |
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| creator = {{Plainlist| |
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* [[Daniel Tosh]] |
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| format = [[Comedy]] | |
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* Mike Gibbons |
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| runtime = approx. 21 Minutes | |
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| creator = [[Daniel Tosh]] | |
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| presenter = Daniel Tosh | |
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| country = {{flag|USA}} | |
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| network = [[Comedy Central]] | |
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| first_aired = June 4, 2009 |
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| last_aired = present |
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| director = Scott Zabielski | |
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| language = [[English language|English]] | |
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| num_seasons = 2 | |
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| num_episodes = 41 | |
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| executive_producer = Daniel Tosh<br/> Mike Gibbons <br/> Scott Tomlinson | |
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| website = http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/ |
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| director = Scott Zabielski |
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'''''Tosh.0''''' (pronounced {{IPA-en|ˈtɒʃ ˈpɔɪnt ˈoʊ|}}) is an [[United States|American]] [[television program|television series]] hosted by [[comedian]] [[Daniel Tosh]], who provides sarcastic commentary on not only various online video clips, but society, celebrities, and several other parts of popular culture. Tosh.0 produces some of the most idiotic americans over a worldwide network. The show also has multiple live drug uses and should probably be taken off the air, but another season is starting in two weeks so crap another year of stupid jokes that don't make sense and isn't any funny this show is like scrubs but worse. |
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| presenter = Daniel Tosh |
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| producer = Jeff Sammon, [[Andrew Wantuck]], Erik Tily |
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| country = United States |
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| language = English |
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| num_seasons = 12 |
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| num_episodes = 301 |
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| list_episodes = List of Tosh.0 episodes |
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| executive_producer = {{Plainlist| |
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* Daniel Tosh |
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* George Lopez |
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* Charlie Siskel |
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* Christie Smith |
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}} |
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| runtime = 21 minutes |
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| company = [[Daniel Tosh|Black Heart Productions]]<br /> [[Comedy Partners]] |
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| channel = [[Comedy Central]] |
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| first_aired = {{Start date|2009|6|4}} |
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| last_aired = {{End date|2020|11|24}} |
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}} |
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'''''Tosh.0''''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɒ|ʃ|_|ˌ|p|ɔɪ|n|t|_|ˈ|oʊ}} {{respell|TOSH|_|poynt|_|OH}}) is an American [[Television comedy|comedy]] television series that aired on [[Comedy Central]] from June 4, 2009, to November 24, 2020. The series was hosted and produced by [[comedian]] [[Daniel Tosh]], who provided satirical commentary on online [[viral video]] clips, [[internet meme]]s, [[social media]], [[Twitter#Trending topics|trending topics]], society, celebrities, stereotypes, and popular culture as a whole. |
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The tone was based on Tosh's deliberately offensive and controversial style of [[black comedy]], [[observational comedy]], [[satire]], and [[sarcasm]]. The show at one stage reached number 1 ratings for its timeslot among men within the ages of 18–24, reaching millions of viewers at a time.<ref name="Tosh record ratings"/> |
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On August 20, 2020, Comedy Central announced that season 12 would be its last, reversing a four-season renewal.<ref name="canceled">{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tosh-0-canceled-as-comedy-central-reverses-4-season-renewal|title='Tosh.0' Canceled as Comedy Central Reverses 4-Season Renewal|first=Lesley|last=Goldberg|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=August 20, 2020}}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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''Tosh.0'' was launched to a similar demographic as [[E!]]'s ''[[The Soup]]'' (and its since-canceled derivative, [[G4 (American TV network)|G4]]'s ''[[Web Soup]]''), and of time-filling video mashups on late-night talk shows.<ref name="hurts so good"/><ref name="Tosh.0 - Season 3 Premiere">{{cite web | title=Tosh.0 - Season 3 Premiere | first=Kenny | last=Herzog | date=January 12, 2011 | work=A.V. Club | url=http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/itosh0i-season-3-premiere-49844 | access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref><ref name="The Top-Earning Comedians">{{cite web | title=The Top-Earning Comedians | date=October 8, 2010 | first=Lacey | last=Rose | work=[[Forbes]] | url=https://www.forbes.com/2010/09/07/handler-dunham-cook-fator-business-entertainment-top-earning-comedians.html | access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> It launched at a time of the convergence of television, computers, video cameras, and Internet access—across all devices and across all walks of life.<ref name="hurts so good"/> |
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''Tosh.0'' premiered on [[Comedy Central]] on June 4, 2009, starring [[Daniel Tosh]]. It focuses on Internet [[viral video]]s, sharing a set-up similar to that of ''[[Web Soup]]''.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allyourtv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:newstosh0&catid=42:newspressreleases | title = Comedy Central Greenlights 'Tosh.0' | work = Allyourtv.com | accessdate = 2009-03-13 }}</ref> Both shows are styled after [[The Soup]],{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} of which Web Soup is a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]]. The first season proved a surprise hit, averaging over a million viewers per episode. Within 10 weeks of its premiere, ''Tosh.0'' became the second most watched cable network show in its time slot among 18–34-year-old males, a sought after [[demographic profile|advertising demographic]].<ref>http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE57C07K20090813</ref> |
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The show premiered on [[Comedy Central]] on June 4, 2009, starring stand-up comedy veteran [[Daniel Tosh]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.allyourtv.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=167:newstosh0&catid=42:newspressreleases | title = Comedy Central Greenlights 'Tosh.0' | work = Allyourtv.com | access-date = March 13, 2009 }}</ref> The first season was a surprise hit, averaging more than one million viewers per episode.<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/><ref name="Comedy Central logs on"/> Within 10 weeks of its premiere, ''Tosh.0'' became the second-most-watched cable network show in its time slot among males aged 18–34, a sought-after [[demographic profile|advertising demographic]].<ref name="Tosh record ratings"/><ref name="Comedy Central logs on">{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSTRE57C07K20090813 | work=Reuters | title=Comedy Central logs on for more "Tosh.0" | date=August 13, 2009}}</ref> |
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The show was originally only scheduled for 10 episodes, but as its popularity increased, Comedy Central extended the first season to 16 episodes.<ref>[http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/12/tosh-0-receives-order-for-additional-episodes/24687 Seidman, Robert. "Tosh.0 Receives Order for Additional Episodes", TV By the Numbers; 12 August 2009]</ref> |
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The show was originally scheduled for only 10 episodes, but as its popularity increased, Comedy Central extended the first season to 16 episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/12/tosh-0-receives-order-for-additional-episodes/24687|title=Tosh.0 Receives Order for Additional Episodes|work=TVbytheNumbers|access-date=November 3, 2015|archive-date=March 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100308123529/http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/12/tosh-0-receives-order-for-additional-episodes/24687|url-status=dead}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that Comedy Central had renewed the show for a full second season with 25 episodes, and the show was consistently renewed until its cancellation in 2020.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/12/16/comedy-central-gives-daniel-tosh-a-second-season-of-tosh-o-stand-up-special/ | title=Comedy Central gives Daniel Tosh a second season of 'Tosh.0,' | work=Snierson, Dan (EW.com) | access-date=June 23, 2010 | archive-date=October 9, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101009092552/http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/12/16/comedy-central-gives-daniel-tosh-a-second-season-of-tosh-o-stand-up-special/ | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/04/08/breaking-tosh-0-renewed-for-third-season/ | title = Breaking: Tosh.0 Renewed for Third Season | work = Comedy Central Insider | access-date = December 10, 2010 | archive-date = March 4, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120304055135/http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/04/08/breaking-tosh-0-renewed-for-third-season/ | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=367637&title=new-episodes-of-tosh.0-start/ | title = New Episodes of Tosh.0 Start Tuesday, January 11 – Tosh.0 – Video Clip | work = Comedy Central | access-date = December 10, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Chitwood|first=Adam|title=Comedy Central Renews TOSH.0 for 30-Episode Fifth Season|url=http://collider.com/comedy-central-renews-tosh-0-for-30-episode-fifth-season/196737/|publisher=Collider.com|access-date=September 19, 2012|date=September 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title='Tosh.0' Renewed for Three Seasons by Comedy Central |url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/tosh-0-nabs-three-season-renewal-from-comedy-central-1200941442/|publisher=Variety|access-date=December 10, 2013|date=December 10, 2013}}</ref> |
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Comedy Central confirmed a second season consisting of 25 episodes.<ref>[http://seriesandtv.com/cancelled-shows-2009-tosh-0-gets-renewed-by-comedy-central/ "Cancelled Shows 2009: Tosh.0 gets renewed by Comedy Central" Series & TV December 16, 2009]</ref> |
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In 2015, the series was sold into [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]], to air on [[Local programming|local stations]] in major US cities, and in other local markets for late-night weekend spots.<ref>{{cite web|title=Fox Stations Pick Up 'Tosh.0' for Daily Syndication|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/fox-stations-pick-up-tosh0-779170|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=March 4, 2015|date=March 4, 2015}}</ref> |
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On April 8, 2010, Comedy Central announced they've renewed the show for a third season, which will debut on January 12, 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2010/04/08/breaking-tosh-0-renewed-for-third-season/ | title = Breaking: Tosh.0 Renewed for Third Season | work = Comedy Central Insider | accessdate = April 27, 2010}}</ref> |
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Syndication ad-sales and distribution were done through syndicators [[Debmar-Mercury]] and [[CBS Television Distribution]]. |
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The 12th season was originally scheduled to premiere on March 17, 2020, before the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] stopped the show's tapings.<ref>{{cite web|title="Crank Yankers" Renewed for Additional 20 Episodes, Current Season Resumes March 17 After Season Premiere of "Tosh.0"|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/03/05/crank-yankers-renewed-for-additional-20-episodes-current-season-resumes-march-17-after-season-premiere-of-tosh0-998201/20200305comedycentral01/|work=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=March 5, 2020}}</ref> On August 20, 2020, one day after the cancellation of ''[[Drunk History]]'', Comedy Central announced that season 12 will be ''Tosh.0'''s final season. The show was previously renewed for four more seasons, but this decision was reversed as Comedy Central began transitioning away from live action original programming to adult animation.<ref>{{Cite web|last=White|first=Peter|date=2020-08-20|title='Tosh.0' To End With 12th Season As Comedy Central Continues Shift To Animation; ViacomCBS & Daniel Tosh Will Shop Series|url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/tosh-0-to-end-with-12th-season-comedy-central-1203019045/|website=Deadline|language=en}}</ref> The 12th and final season premiered on September 15, 2020, and concluded on November 24, 2020.<ref name="canceled"/> |
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==Format== |
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Each episode begins with a clip from an online video before the opening credits are shown. Tosh makes humorous comments about the video, and proceeds to do so for a selection of other videos and/or pictures. During this time, for one video or picture twenty seconds will be used to see how many comments he can post in twenty seconds, acting as if he were commenting on a video sharing site such as YouTube. The last video in this slideshow will go into a "Breakdown", where he discusses various elements of a video, pausing several times to comment. |
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==Overview== |
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Most episodes feature a "Web Redemption", where Tosh invites a person or group that has a video on the Internet to be on the show. They are invited to explain their video, interact with Tosh, and recreate the video. As most of the videos the redeemers have posted have a negative connotation, the recreation will try to place the person or group in a more positive light. Besides the Web Redemption, there has also been a "Web Reunion", where a group's video that Tosh enjoys is invited to perform their act again. |
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''Tosh.0''{{'s}} low-cost production model uses [[viral video]] clips that are freely downloadable from the Internet and freely reusable via American [[fair use]] copyright laws, with host Daniel Tosh presenting from a [[chroma key]] virtual stage.<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/><ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose"/> Daniel Tosh says, "The [clip show] format had been tried a couple dozen times and failed. Our idea [was] to push it as far as we can and see what happens";<ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose">{{cite web | title=Tosh.0's Daniel Tosh Pushes The Envelope... Further | first=Lacey | last=Rose | date=January 5, 2011 | work=Forbes | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/laceyrose/2011/01/05/tosh-0s-daniel-tosh-pushes-the-envelope-further/ | access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref> and that the staff selects videos of "people whose lives were changed because of a 15-second clip".<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/> Executive Producer Charlie Siskel said the show "[looks] at pop culture and all areas of life through the lens of the Internet".<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/> |
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The video clips are primarily selected by the show's full-time researchers and validated "on a case-by-case basis" by Comedy Central's standards and practices division.<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/> Though reportedly approving 95% of all the show's submitted videos,<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/> Tosh says this division is surprisingly unpredictable in both its approvals and disapprovals,<ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose"/> and that he is as surprised as the audience is at what the company allows on TV.<ref name="REVIEW: Tosh talks back">{{cite web | title=REVIEW: Tosh talks back | first=Carly | last=Weber | date=January 21, 2014 | publisher=Hoopla | url=http://www.hooplanow.com/2013/06/06/review-tosh-talks-back | access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref> The range of selected clips includes spontaneous cuteness, whimsical performances, romance, accidents, [[exhibitionism]], [[sexual fetishism|fetishism]], [[surrealism]], stunts, vomit, gore, and other acute bodily harm.<ref name="hurts so good"/><ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose"/> Hank Stuever of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' says the show's decadent tone is formed around the values and maturity of its young adult target audience.<ref name="hurts so good"/> |
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Other recurring segments include a segment "Is it Racist?", where Tosh invites people to vote on any racial stereotypes presented in a video. There is also a "User Video of the Week", where viewers of the show can submit their own movies to be shown on the air. The rest of the content in an episode varies, whether it is a video presented by a celebrity guest, a random video that is presented as a weekly video despite it being the only one (Topless Pogo Stunt of the Week, Pedophile of the Week, etc.), or Tosh attempting to recreate a video. |
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Each episode begins with a [[cold open]] of a [[viral video]] clip from the Internet. Presenting to a live studio audience seated before his virtual stage, Daniel Tosh makes jokes and commentary about that video, and about a selection of other viral videos and pictures. He may act as if he were commenting on a video-sharing site such as [[YouTube]], making as many jokes as possible in 20 seconds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livedash.com/transcript/tosh.0/6732/COMEDYP/Tuesday_April_20_2010/266439/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130127211936/http://www.livedash.com/transcript/tosh.0/6732/COMEDYP/Tuesday_April_20_2010/266439/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2013|title=Tosh.0 Season 2 – Episode 5: "The Average Homeboy" transcript|date=April 20, 2010|publisher=LiveDash.com|access-date=September 11, 2012}}</ref> The final video in this section enters a "Video Breakdown" segment, where Tosh discusses the video's elements of action and themes. |
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*[[Recurring segments from Tosh.0|Recurring segments]] |
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Tosh may perform original short sketches related to or parodying these videos. For example, he displayed a video of a man attempting to climb a precariously homemade staircase of milk crates to reach a flagpole, resulting in a great fall with visibly broken bones. Tosh whimsically parodied the tragedy in a fully animated stylistic recreation of Nintendo's original ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' (1985) video game, starring himself as [[Mario]] within the game's madcap action of jumping over huge blocks and collecting treasure.<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/> |
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The "Web Redemption" or "CeWEBrity Profile" segments additionally invite the stars of those videos directly onto ''Tosh.0'', where they are interviewed to explain and recreate the video's subject matter. The segment yields various blends of increased cuteness, humiliation, bullying, parody, [[black comedy]], sympathy, or protectiveness in an attempt to explore and redeem the star and the subject matter.<ref name="hurts so good"/> For example, Tosh pretends to spend days trapped in an elevator with Nick White, whose actual 41 hours trapped in a New York elevator had been chronicled by ''[[The New Yorker]]''<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain">{{cite news | title=Their Pain Is His Gain | first=Brian | last=Stelter | date=August 20, 2010 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/arts/television/22tosh.html | access-date=November 4, 2015}}</ref> and posted on YouTube in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2010/08/24/for-comic-videos-hurt-so-good.html?sid=101|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121152127/http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2010/08/24/for-comic-videos-hurt-so-good.html?sid=101|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 21, 2013|title=For comic, videos hurt so good|author=Brian Stelter|work=The Columbus Dispatch|access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> The "Web Reunion", "Web Remix", or "Web Investigation" segments are formatted similarly; the "Web Retreat" featured Tosh hiking with Paul Vasquez from the viral video ''[[Double Rainbow (viral video)|Double Rainbow]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livedash.com/transcript/tosh.0/66/COMEDYP/Thursday_March_17_2011/571439/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128014113/http://www.livedash.com/transcript/tosh.0/66/COMEDYP/Thursday_March_17_2011/571439/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 28, 2013|title=Tosh.0 Season 2 – Episode 22: "Double Rainbow Guy (Retreat)" transcript|date=September 8, 2010|work=LiveDash.com|access-date=September 11, 2012}}</ref> |
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Throughout the show, Tosh interacts directly with the live audience, inviting broadcast viewers to actively join his following of millions of [[Twitter]] users in "live tweeting" and to [[crowdsourcing|submit]] their own videos.<ref name="hurts so good"/><ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/DANIELTOSH |title=daniel tosh (danieltosh) on Twitter |via=[[Twitter]] |access-date=October 9, 2013}}</ref> In the "Is it Racist?" segment, Tosh invites viewers to vote on any racial stereotypes presented in a video. In addition to garnering a reported average of 1,200 monthly death threats,<ref name="REVIEW: Tosh talks back"/> Tosh's ability to call the audience to action has yielded the mass vandalism of the show's own [[Wikipedia]] article,<ref name="Your Wikipedia Entries">{{cite web | title=Your Wikipedia Entries | first=Joselyn | last=Hughes | date=February 3, 2010 | publisher=Comedy Central | work=Tosh.0 Blog | url=http://tosh.cc.com/blog/2010/02/03/your-wikipedia-entries | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140713060149/http://tosh.cc.com/blog/2010/02/03/your-wikipedia-entries | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 13, 2014 | access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref> and has resulted in traffic that temporarily crashed [[CelebrityNetWorth]].<ref name="We Crashed">{{cite web | title=We Crashed CelebrityNetworth.com! | first=Mike | last=Pomranz | date=September 9, 2010 | publisher=Comedy Central | work=Tosh.0 Blog | url=http://tosh.cc.com/blog/2010/09/09/we-crashed-celebritynetworth-com | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022020509/http://tosh.cc.com/blog/2010/09/09/we-crashed-celebritynetworth-com | url-status=dead | archive-date=October 22, 2014 | access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref><ref name="Crash EW">{{cite web | title=Daniel Tosh reportedly crashes website CelebrityNetWorth.com | first=Tim | last=Stack | date=September 9, 2010 | publisher=USA Today | url=http://www.ew.com/article/2010/09/09/daniel-tosh-reportedly-crashes-website-celebritynetworth-com | access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref> |
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Tosh routinely utilizes the show's screen time for promotion of his stand-up comedy tours, merchandise, and other TV shows—prompting ''[[Forbes]]'' to describe the show as being "as much marketing [vehicle] as ... [moneymaker]".<ref name="The Top-Earning Comedians"/> |
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=== Cancellation and future === |
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''Tosh.0'' was originally renewed for four more seasons following its 12th season before Comedy Central and its parent company's announcement on August 20, 2020. ViacomCBS said in a statement that their intentions were to focus on animated and topical comedies, with ''Tosh.0'' not fitting that format.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Goldberg|first1=Lesley|date=2020-08-20|title='Tosh.0' Canceled as Comedy Central Reverses 4-Season Renewal|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/tosh-0-canceled-as-comedy-central-reverses-4-season-renewal-4048742/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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As of January 1, 2022, MTV has purchased the licensing to the first 12 seasons of ''Tosh.0'' and has been airing them weekly. In a 2020 press release, following news of the show's cancellation and before its acquisition by MTV, Daniel Tosh joked, "I look forward to doing an animated reboot of my show on MTV in 25 years".<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-29|title=Comedy Central Axed 'Tosh.0' — Is the Popular Series Moving to Another Channel?|url=https://www.distractify.com/p/what-network-is-tosh0-moving-to|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Distractify|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Reception== |
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===Viewership=== |
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The first season was a surprise hit, averaging more than one million viewers per episode.<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/><ref name="Comedy Central logs on"/> In June 2010, the season premiere was the number 1 show on its timeslot among men aged 18–24. With nearly two million viewers, the episode was the most-watched episode of the series.<ref name="Tosh record ratings">{{cite web|title=Comedy Central's TOSH.0 Pulls Record Ratings|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Comedy-Centrals-TOSHO-Pullls-Record-Ratings-20100604|work=BroadwayWorld.com|access-date=June 23, 2010}}</ref> This record was quickly broken by the July 7 episode, which had up to 2.4 million viewers, and the July 28 episode would attract 2.7 million viewers, again winning the time slot and being the most-watched show on television that day among men aged 18–24 and 25–34.<ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose"/> The July 28 episode was the top cable show that night for adults 18–49.<ref name="Their Pain Is His Gain"/><ref>{{cite web|last=Szalai|first=Georg|title=Comedy Central's ''Tosh.0'' hits series high|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i8c9ded7f2bccee0aafb8c14d7d127f3b|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=July 30, 2010|access-date=July 31, 2010}}</ref> Within 10 weeks of its premiere, ''Tosh.0'' became the second-most-watched cable network show in its time slot among males aged 18–34, a sought-after [[demographic profile|advertising demographic]].<ref name="Tosh record ratings"/><ref name="Comedy Central logs on"/><ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose"/> |
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In June 2015, ''Forbes'' ranked the show's Twitter following of 17 million members as number 43 out of 100 on "The Social 100", its list of the most followed celebrities on Twitter.<ref name="The Social 100">{{cite web|last=Berg|first=Madeline|title=The Social 100: Twitter's Most Followed Celebrities|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2015/06/29/twitters-most-followed-celebrities-retweets-dont-always-mean-dollars/|work=Forbes|date=June 29, 2015|access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref> In 2016, a ''[[New York Times]]'' study of the 50 TV shows with the most [[Facebook Like]]s found that ''Tosh.0'' was "very much of a Northern show, but not necessarily an urban one. It is most popular in Colorado; least so in Mississippi".<ref name="katz20161227">{{Cite web|last=Katz|first=Josh|title='Duck Dynasty' vs. 'Modern Family': 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html|work=The New York Times|date=2016-12-27}}</ref> |
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===Critical reception=== |
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The show's core premise has been initially compared to that of the perceived competition of [[E!]]'s ''[[Talk Soup]]'' (and its since-canceled derivative, [[G4 (American TV network)|G4]]'s ''[[Web Soup]]''), ''The Dish'', ''Sports Soup'',<ref name="Tosh.0 at AV Club">{{cite web|last=Herzog|first=Kenny|title=Tosh.0 - Season 3 Premiere|url=http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/itosh0i-season-3-premiere-49844|work=TV Club|date=January 12, 2011|access-date=November 6, 2015}}</ref> and of time-filling viral video mashups on late-night talk shows.<ref name="hurts so good"/><ref name="Tosh.0 - Season 3 Premiere"/><ref name="The Top-Earning Comedians"/><ref name="Tosh by Lacey Rose"/> |
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[[Hank Stuever]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' initially gave a mostly negative review of the June 4, 2009, debut episode of ''Tosh.0''. He found Tosh's stage execution to yield a banal, juvenile, and unnecessary "blooper show" serving as a "cheap example of clearinghouse programming" which adds little to a mashup of viral videos but "clutter, buttressed by a lot of stale references". Stuever thought the concept of the series had potential, concluding that Tosh can "hold his own" within the concept of redeeming the Internet and "undoing the fail".<ref name="TV Preview: Hank Stuever">{{cite news|last=Stuever|first=Hank|title=TV Preview: Hank Stuever on Comedy Central's Feeble "Tosh.0"|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060303393.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=June 4, 2009|access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> Five years later, Stuever re-evaluated the show positively as a now long-time fan, and addressed his retrospective regret of his "prematurely dismissive" impression by writing a new review to serve as "a long-delayed Valentine to [his] secret dirty love, Daniel Tosh", and described ''Tosh.0'' as "a TV show about the Internet, literally and thematically", with a hilarious use of cruelty "as black as the online soul, and as fleeting and ephemeral", yielding a "blundering exploration of race, class, gender, life".<ref name="hurts so good">{{cite news|last=Stuever|first=Hank|title=Comedy Central's 'Tosh.0': Five years later, it hurts so good|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/comedy-centrals-tosh0-five-years-later-it-hurts-so-good/2014/02/13/643f4d94-9352-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 15, 2014|access-date=November 3, 2015}}</ref> |
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Kenny Herzog of ''The A. V. Club'' praised the show's "high-wire act of being hysterically vicious and accurate in mocking oblivious exhibitionists without purely bullying" and that the show's "strongest moments of pure hilarity come from its extended, performed material". He describes the show as "continually playing Steal the Bacon for unexploited scraps against the absorbent blob that is viral culture".<ref name="Tosh.0 at AV Club"/> |
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On June 12, 2012, [[Paramount Home Entertainment]] (under the Comedy Central Home Entertainment label) released ''Tosh.0: Hoodies'' on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray]] containing the first 10 episodes of ''Tosh.0'' season one. Another DVD and Blu-ray release entitled ''Tosh.0: Deep V's'' was released on December 21, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Seller|first=Ryan|title=Tosh.0: Deep V's Blu-ray|url=http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=9771|work=Blu-ray.com|date=October 17, 2012|access-date=October 18, 2012}}</ref> Additionally, the entire series is available for download via the [[iTunes Store]] with new episodes available after each air date. As of November 2021, the first ten seasons are partially (259 of 271 episodes) available to stream on [[Paramount+]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Tosh.0|url=https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/tosh-0/|access-date=November 25, 2020|website=[[Paramount+]]|date=June 3, 2009 }}</ref> |
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Tosh.0 | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Created by |
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Directed by | Scott Zabielski |
Presented by | Daniel Tosh |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 12 |
No. of episodes | 301 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producers |
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Producers | Jeff Sammon, Andrew Wantuck, Erik Tily |
Running time | 21 minutes |
Production companies | Black Heart Productions Comedy Partners |
Original release | |
Network | Comedy Central |
Release | June 4, 2009 November 24, 2020 | –
Tosh.0 (/ˈtɒʃ ˌpɔɪnt ˈoʊ/ TOSH poynt OH) is an American comedy television series that aired on Comedy Central from June 4, 2009, to November 24, 2020. The series was hosted and produced by comedian Daniel Tosh, who provided satirical commentary on online viral video clips, internet memes, social media, trending topics, society, celebrities, stereotypes, and popular culture as a whole.
The tone was based on Tosh's deliberately offensive and controversial style of black comedy, observational comedy, satire, and sarcasm. The show at one stage reached number 1 ratings for its timeslot among men within the ages of 18–24, reaching millions of viewers at a time.[1]
On August 20, 2020, Comedy Central announced that season 12 would be its last, reversing a four-season renewal.[2]
History
[edit]Tosh.0 was launched to a similar demographic as E!'s The Soup (and its since-canceled derivative, G4's Web Soup), and of time-filling video mashups on late-night talk shows.[3][4][5] It launched at a time of the convergence of television, computers, video cameras, and Internet access—across all devices and across all walks of life.[3]
The show premiered on Comedy Central on June 4, 2009, starring stand-up comedy veteran Daniel Tosh.[6] The first season was a surprise hit, averaging more than one million viewers per episode.[7][8] Within 10 weeks of its premiere, Tosh.0 became the second-most-watched cable network show in its time slot among males aged 18–34, a sought-after advertising demographic.[1][8]
The show was originally scheduled for only 10 episodes, but as its popularity increased, Comedy Central extended the first season to 16 episodes.[9] In December 2009, it was announced that Comedy Central had renewed the show for a full second season with 25 episodes, and the show was consistently renewed until its cancellation in 2020.[10][11][12][13][14]
In 2015, the series was sold into syndication, to air on local stations in major US cities, and in other local markets for late-night weekend spots.[15] Syndication ad-sales and distribution were done through syndicators Debmar-Mercury and CBS Television Distribution.
The 12th season was originally scheduled to premiere on March 17, 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic stopped the show's tapings.[16] On August 20, 2020, one day after the cancellation of Drunk History, Comedy Central announced that season 12 will be Tosh.0's final season. The show was previously renewed for four more seasons, but this decision was reversed as Comedy Central began transitioning away from live action original programming to adult animation.[17] The 12th and final season premiered on September 15, 2020, and concluded on November 24, 2020.[2]
Overview
[edit]Tosh.0's low-cost production model uses viral video clips that are freely downloadable from the Internet and freely reusable via American fair use copyright laws, with host Daniel Tosh presenting from a chroma key virtual stage.[7][18] Daniel Tosh says, "The [clip show] format had been tried a couple dozen times and failed. Our idea [was] to push it as far as we can and see what happens";[18] and that the staff selects videos of "people whose lives were changed because of a 15-second clip".[7] Executive Producer Charlie Siskel said the show "[looks] at pop culture and all areas of life through the lens of the Internet".[7]
The video clips are primarily selected by the show's full-time researchers and validated "on a case-by-case basis" by Comedy Central's standards and practices division.[7] Though reportedly approving 95% of all the show's submitted videos,[7] Tosh says this division is surprisingly unpredictable in both its approvals and disapprovals,[18] and that he is as surprised as the audience is at what the company allows on TV.[19] The range of selected clips includes spontaneous cuteness, whimsical performances, romance, accidents, exhibitionism, fetishism, surrealism, stunts, vomit, gore, and other acute bodily harm.[3][18] Hank Stuever of The Washington Post says the show's decadent tone is formed around the values and maturity of its young adult target audience.[3]
Format
[edit]Each episode begins with a cold open of a viral video clip from the Internet. Presenting to a live studio audience seated before his virtual stage, Daniel Tosh makes jokes and commentary about that video, and about a selection of other viral videos and pictures. He may act as if he were commenting on a video-sharing site such as YouTube, making as many jokes as possible in 20 seconds.[20] The final video in this section enters a "Video Breakdown" segment, where Tosh discusses the video's elements of action and themes.
Tosh may perform original short sketches related to or parodying these videos. For example, he displayed a video of a man attempting to climb a precariously homemade staircase of milk crates to reach a flagpole, resulting in a great fall with visibly broken bones. Tosh whimsically parodied the tragedy in a fully animated stylistic recreation of Nintendo's original Super Mario Bros. (1985) video game, starring himself as Mario within the game's madcap action of jumping over huge blocks and collecting treasure.[7]
The "Web Redemption" or "CeWEBrity Profile" segments additionally invite the stars of those videos directly onto Tosh.0, where they are interviewed to explain and recreate the video's subject matter. The segment yields various blends of increased cuteness, humiliation, bullying, parody, black comedy, sympathy, or protectiveness in an attempt to explore and redeem the star and the subject matter.[3] For example, Tosh pretends to spend days trapped in an elevator with Nick White, whose actual 41 hours trapped in a New York elevator had been chronicled by The New Yorker[7] and posted on YouTube in 2008.[21] The "Web Reunion", "Web Remix", or "Web Investigation" segments are formatted similarly; the "Web Retreat" featured Tosh hiking with Paul Vasquez from the viral video Double Rainbow.[22]
Throughout the show, Tosh interacts directly with the live audience, inviting broadcast viewers to actively join his following of millions of Twitter users in "live tweeting" and to submit their own videos.[3][7][23] In the "Is it Racist?" segment, Tosh invites viewers to vote on any racial stereotypes presented in a video. In addition to garnering a reported average of 1,200 monthly death threats,[19] Tosh's ability to call the audience to action has yielded the mass vandalism of the show's own Wikipedia article,[24] and has resulted in traffic that temporarily crashed CelebrityNetWorth.[25][26]
Tosh routinely utilizes the show's screen time for promotion of his stand-up comedy tours, merchandise, and other TV shows—prompting Forbes to describe the show as being "as much marketing [vehicle] as ... [moneymaker]".[5]
Cancellation and future
[edit]Tosh.0 was originally renewed for four more seasons following its 12th season before Comedy Central and its parent company's announcement on August 20, 2020. ViacomCBS said in a statement that their intentions were to focus on animated and topical comedies, with Tosh.0 not fitting that format.[27]
As of January 1, 2022, MTV has purchased the licensing to the first 12 seasons of Tosh.0 and has been airing them weekly. In a 2020 press release, following news of the show's cancellation and before its acquisition by MTV, Daniel Tosh joked, "I look forward to doing an animated reboot of my show on MTV in 25 years".[28]
Reception
[edit]Viewership
[edit]The first season was a surprise hit, averaging more than one million viewers per episode.[7][8] In June 2010, the season premiere was the number 1 show on its timeslot among men aged 18–24. With nearly two million viewers, the episode was the most-watched episode of the series.[1] This record was quickly broken by the July 7 episode, which had up to 2.4 million viewers, and the July 28 episode would attract 2.7 million viewers, again winning the time slot and being the most-watched show on television that day among men aged 18–24 and 25–34.[18] The July 28 episode was the top cable show that night for adults 18–49.[7][29] Within 10 weeks of its premiere, Tosh.0 became the second-most-watched cable network show in its time slot among males aged 18–34, a sought-after advertising demographic.[1][8][18]
In June 2015, Forbes ranked the show's Twitter following of 17 million members as number 43 out of 100 on "The Social 100", its list of the most followed celebrities on Twitter.[30] In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that Tosh.0 was "very much of a Northern show, but not necessarily an urban one. It is most popular in Colorado; least so in Mississippi".[31]
Critical reception
[edit]The show's core premise has been initially compared to that of the perceived competition of E!'s Talk Soup (and its since-canceled derivative, G4's Web Soup), The Dish, Sports Soup,[32] and of time-filling viral video mashups on late-night talk shows.[3][4][5][18]
Hank Stuever of The Washington Post initially gave a mostly negative review of the June 4, 2009, debut episode of Tosh.0. He found Tosh's stage execution to yield a banal, juvenile, and unnecessary "blooper show" serving as a "cheap example of clearinghouse programming" which adds little to a mashup of viral videos but "clutter, buttressed by a lot of stale references". Stuever thought the concept of the series had potential, concluding that Tosh can "hold his own" within the concept of redeeming the Internet and "undoing the fail".[33] Five years later, Stuever re-evaluated the show positively as a now long-time fan, and addressed his retrospective regret of his "prematurely dismissive" impression by writing a new review to serve as "a long-delayed Valentine to [his] secret dirty love, Daniel Tosh", and described Tosh.0 as "a TV show about the Internet, literally and thematically", with a hilarious use of cruelty "as black as the online soul, and as fleeting and ephemeral", yielding a "blundering exploration of race, class, gender, life".[3]
Kenny Herzog of The A. V. Club praised the show's "high-wire act of being hysterically vicious and accurate in mocking oblivious exhibitionists without purely bullying" and that the show's "strongest moments of pure hilarity come from its extended, performed material". He describes the show as "continually playing Steal the Bacon for unexploited scraps against the absorbent blob that is viral culture".[32]
Series overview
[edit]Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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1 | 16 | June 4, 2009 | November 12, 2009 | |
2 | 25 | January 13, 2010 | September 29, 2010 | |
3 | 30 | January 11, 2011 | November 15, 2011 | |
4 | 30 | January 31, 2012 | December 4, 2012 | |
5 | 30 | February 5, 2013 | December 10, 2013 | |
6 | 30 | February 18, 2014 | December 2, 2014 | |
7 | 30 | February 17, 2015 | December 1, 2015 | |
8 | 30 | February 9, 2016 | November 29, 2016 | |
9 | 30 | February 7, 2017 | November 21, 2017 | |
10 | 20 | March 27, 2018 | November 20, 2018 | |
11 | 20 | March 19, 2019 | November 19, 2019 | |
12 | 10 | September 15, 2020 | November 24, 2020 |
Home media
[edit]DVD name | Ep # | Release date | Special Features | Notes |
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Vol. 1: Hoodies | 10 | June 12, 2012 | 11 Extended Clips. | Includes the first 10 episodes of season 1 on 2 discs. |
Vol. 2: Deep V's | 16 | December 21, 2012 | Extended Redemption Interviews; "If Daniel Fought Celebrities"-Extended; The Uncut 24-minute Human Centipede Spoiler. | Includes the last 16 episodes of season 2 on 3 discs. |
Vol. 3: Cardigans Plus Casual Jackets | 15 | June 11, 2013 | 15 Extended Clips, The Uncut Orphan Spoiler, Interviews with Crew Members. | Includes the last 6 episodes of season 1 and the first 9 episodes of season 2 on 3 discs. |
Vol. 4: Collas & Exposed Arms | 21 | June 17, 2014 | Extended Redemption Interviews, and "Tiptoes" spoiler Uncut | Includes the first 21 episodes of season 3.[34][35] |
On June 12, 2012, Paramount Home Entertainment (under the Comedy Central Home Entertainment label) released Tosh.0: Hoodies on DVD and Blu-ray containing the first 10 episodes of Tosh.0 season one. Another DVD and Blu-ray release entitled Tosh.0: Deep V's was released on December 21, 2012.[36] Additionally, the entire series is available for download via the iTunes Store with new episodes available after each air date. As of November 2021, the first ten seasons are partially (259 of 271 episodes) available to stream on Paramount+.[37]
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- ^ a b Herzog, Kenny (January 12, 2011). "Tosh.0 - Season 3 Premiere". A.V. Club. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
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