# Comedy Central — user reviews

> 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Comedy Central by Viacom International Inc., rated 3.14/5 from 2,962 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,184 · 4★ 337 · 3★ 163 · 2★ 261 · 1★ 1,017

## What do users think of Comedy Central?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Allows watching shows anytime
- 🚀 Convenient for watching on the go
- 🚀 Provides access to a wide variety of content

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Inconsistent playback and video availability
- 🔊 Excessively loud and repetitive ads
- 🤔 Confusing and unintuitive user interface
- 🤔 Lack of basic features like search and resume playback

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Episodes not playing properly
- Inability to sign in or connect to TV provider
- Forced portrait mode on iPad
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between episodes

**Most requested features**

- Add search functionality
- Implement resume playback feature
- Offer an ad-free subscription option
- Improve app performance and stability

## Newest reviews (16 of 50)

### 2/5 — Just bad

*2021-04-08, version 78.0*

If you want to have 3 minute ads play 4-5 times per episode you are trying to watch this is the app for you. The best part is that whatever system they use for determining if you already watched an ad or not is broken! I am trying to watch a show and even rewinding the video causes a 3 minute ad to trigger. Done with this app. I don’t give it 1 star because the UI is pretty good but it means nothing when you can’t even watch the content. I pay $60 a month for dish and have to watch 3 minute ads still. Ill be going elsewhere.

### 2/5 — Confused app

*2020-12-10, version 69.0*

The majority of the negative reviews have the exact same complaints dating back for sometime now.  I just re-downloaded app on my new phone (so I can watch my favorite Tosh .0 while traveling) and to my surprise the player still as all the issues people were complaining about long ago. My two biggest complaints are that the app doesn’t keep track of my progression through a series and it will make me watch the exact same commercial back to back 12 times. Both of those make opening this app feel like a struggle instead of entertainment. (this is not a review on Comedy Central but the app itself.) 
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### 2/5 — Like many have experienced great shows, horrendous app

*2020-11-08, version 68.0*

It’s ironic this one of the apps I use mode frequently on my AppleTV, and it is also maddening to use. I can’t believe the number of times I have to re-sign into my provider, even when I have been using it frequently. 

Even more maddening, I constantly experience this phenomenon where I’ll be watching a show and in the middle of the show it stops with the message, ‘Sorry, this video is no longer available.’ 80% of the time I quit the app and start again and it works. But sometimes even that doesn’t work. 

It’s also amazing in this day and age that the app doesn’t remember on other devices which shows I’ve watched, this works with other apps I sign on with my provider info....

One would think one of the biggest media companies would be able to design a better, more user-friendly app!!!

But I’ll keep watching because they’ve got the shows I watch.....

### 2/5 — Confused

*2020-09-27, version 64.0*

So I am all signed into Comedy Central and the don’t have all the south parks which is silly considering it’s a Comedy Central show. So I download hbomax which I also have hbo so cool. Find now I can watch all the episodes which thankfully to me I have hbo but I think it’s garbage that Comedy Central can’t air there own content unless they sold out. So now I have hbo max on my IPhone but can’t get it on my Roku tv cause freaking hbo hasn’t made a contract with them. 
Comedy Central should try and stay separate. They have all sorts of content they could release. 
Over not the best experience with this app. Though it does have stuff you can watch.

### 2/5 — Bad App Has Only Gotten Worse!

*2019-08-22, version 33.0*

I want to love this app. I really do. I love that it has Reno 911, Chappelle’s Show, etc. When I first started using the app it worked great, but in the last 8-10 months or so, it’s been all downhill. Most of the time I can’t even get into the app at all. When I do get into the app, the content takes forever to load - if it loads at all. Shows stop streaming in the middle of an episode. Halfway through an episode of Reno 911 I got a message stating that it couldn’t continue due to licensing issues ... huh?  I don’t know what the developers did to kill this app, but it’s been progressively worse since I installed it. Sometimes I don’t even have sound.  And yes, I’ve tried uninstalling/reinstalling. I thought maybe it had something to do with the Fire Stick but it sounds like people are having these issues across platforms. FIX THIS!

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble on the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with your device information for further assistance. We are here to help.

### 2/5 — Unnecessary

*2019-05-26, version 25.0*

The update on this app was unnecessary. I’m totally OK with watching commercials for the program I tune in to. But to make it so that Viewers have to sit through the commercials for other programs as well is just uncalled for. Now, unlike before when you tap on a video it takes you to whichever video the app wants to take you to before giving you the option to filter, now you have to watch the commercials for that program before you can close it to then make the selection of the program you are actually interested in, then watch the. Commercials for that one as well before the video starts. For example, if you were interested in watching the daily show from three days ago, when you tap on the daily show program it automatically takes you to the most current episode, you then have to watch all the commercials for that episode before you are able to close the episode to then choose the video you really wanted from three days prior, you then have to watch the commercials for that one as well and then you get the video. I don’t know if this is a scam or a glitch but I will not stand for it, not even for Trevor Noah! There are entirely too many options out there to put up with this type of stuff anymore.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We understand that ads are probably not the reason you come to the app. Our apps are ad supported and being ad supported means we can keep a lot of our content available to you free of charge.

That said we are always experimenting with different advertisers and types of ads to create the best user experience. We would appreciate your feedback so we can best understand your experience on our app. Please email us at help@cc.com!

### 2/5 — It generally works, just HORRIBLY designed.

*2019-01-24, version 21.0*

I have a list of grievances, but I’ll stick with my main ones for this review. The worst part of this app for me is the forced vertical browsing then forced horizontal viewing. So stupid. Unbelievable, really, that anyone finds this helpful in any way. Zero use, fully frustrating. Same stupid ads, on repeat. Fine. But they insist on playing them about 15% louder than the show. That doesn't make anyone pay more attention or want whatever product more. It PISSES PEOPLE OFF! That’s why they passed  federal regulation banning it on TV (but apparently not online... yet). Makes me lose any respect I had for the network.

### 1/5 — Horrible app design and functionality

*2019-01-22, version 21.0*

This app is terrible. I love CC but it seems like when it comes to the app they just said F-it and cobbled some barley working interface with some shiny new graphic design to make it look pretty. The show selection screen has no quick search or even an alphabetical side bar. Also if my iPad is in portrait mode and I even tap a show it automatically begins the show, there is an option to turn off auto play however when you tap the name of a show it automatically starts the episode paused. which would not be so bad if the maximize/minimize window wasn’t all the way in the top right corner out of sight. What’s even worse is that sometimes the button is missing forcing me to close the app completely and reopen, just to tap the show I want and have it automatically start, rotate, and waits for you to press play. I can tell others have had similar interactions due to the comments so please as a loyal watcher and fan of everything this company produces please take these complaints into consideration, Thank you 

-Loyal Fan

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble using the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with more details about the issue you're experiencing. We are here to help.

### 1/5 — Rarely have problems with apps, this app never works

*2018-12-09, version 18.0*

I never write reviews because I never have problems with apps. I’m that guy that sees negative reviews about the app crashing and always wonder what they are talking about. But this app is the worst TV/movie app I’ve ever used and I have probably two dozen on my phone that I use regularly. My specific issue is with the attempt to watch South Park through the app on my iPhone. Every time I press play, it either is stuck on continuous load or will play until the first commercial break and then get stuck on load. It usually does not work for weeks until one day it will work and play the rest of the episode. This has happened on every single episode of this season that I have attempted to watch. This did not used to happen. If I was Comedy Central I would fire the developer of this app. Again, I never write reviews because I am genuinely happy with the vast majority of apps that I use. This is one of the worst apps I have and I feel cheated out of a program/channel that I pay for.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support.We hate to hear that you're having trouble using the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with your device information for further assistance. We are here to help.

### 2/5 — Ad Frequency Ruins Everything

*2018-11-16, version 16.0*

Would at least be passable if it weren’t for the increasingly horrendous frequency of advertisements. For example, when I watch the most recent episode of South Park, I can’t watch for more than a minute or two before it harshly cuts to a bunch of commercials, and when it comes back it’s not even in the right spot. I even have my freaking cable provider signed in. Stop being a bunch of greedy hounds and at least concentrate the ads to 2-3 spots per episode. 10+ stops is grossly unacceptable. You guys are the absolute worst.

### 1/5 — New update is horrible on iPad

*2018-11-08, version 16.0*

Why take away landscape menu mode?! It’s super annoying to navigate the menus in portrait mode and then have to rotate the iPad around to landscape when starting to watching a video. Really annoying!

UPDATE: We have had several updates since April and claims from the developer that they are going to give us back landscape mode on iPad and still NOTHING! Fix this please, absolutely ridiculous!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Seriously?!? I see a new update that claims a new interface. But what exactly changed? Still no landscape menus for iPad users! This app is the worst at actually listening to their users! 👏🏼No 👏🏼one 👏🏼on 👏🏼iPads👏🏼use 👏🏼their 👏🏼devices 👏🏼in 👏🏼portrait 👏🏼mode 👏🏼!

### 1/5 — By far the worst app for on demand

*2018-10-14, version 15.33.0*

Downloaded this app to watch South Park and this app has no complete seasons, just one or two episodes for each season and that’s not even complete either. 1 episode season 5, 2 episodes of season 7, 1 episode season 13, and so on. Then the ads are so messed up that it causes the screen to go black were I am forced to force quit the app. If the ads do get screwed up and the program continues, it plays with no sound to the point that you have to force quit the app. Rewinding back 15 secs doesn’t solve the problem nor does closing out the episode and go back to the main menu help either. Just like some of the other on demand apps, this doesn’t allow you to use multitasking. I like to listen or watch an episode while working on other projects on my iPad. Travel channel does it along with some others, why can’t you? This app has been deleted and I will just download pirated South Park episodes instead.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble on the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with more details about the issue you're experiencing. We are here to help.

### 1/5 — Kind of shocking how jumbled this is

*2018-10-09, version 14.27.1*

I downloaded this app to watch Reno 911 because it’s not available anywhere else. To their credit, it’s on this app. But in trying to watch it, I’m dealing with the most ridiculous problems: (1) the episodes are out of order. No joke. They just display in a seemingly random order. I have to make a note in my phone of the last one i watched so i know which one to hunt down next, (2) there are several episodes missing. Although, due to issue 1, you never know which. You have to search through the whole season to see if the next one is even available, and if not, you search through it again to see if the one after that is available. (3) the ads are long, but that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that it doesn’t log whether you’ve seen ads. So if you come out of a commercial break, but miss the first part after coming back, and you rewind it too far (back into the ad) it will restart that whole ad break again and you have to sit through it all over. 

These are just not acceptable issues to have at this point. In any app.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble on the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with more details about the issue you're experiencing. We are here to help.

### 2/5 — Miss the old version

*2018-10-09, version 14.27.1*

The latest redesign of the app is super annoying. 1) can’t add shows as favorite so you have to scroll each time to find your show. 2) it’s hard to see which episodes you have already seen. Sometimes it shows a watched progress line but sometimes not. And 3) every couple days it logs you out of your provider and locks the shows so you have to relog in again. 

The only good thing about this update is how it plays the next episode correctly something the previous version did not do. 

I really hope they fix the other issues with the app.

### 1/5 — A step backwards

*2018-09-06, version 13.16.0*

The new Comedy Central app feels like a step backwards. My primary use case for using the app is on an iPad in landscape view, so having a portrait only experience, while cheaper for mobile development, provides a poor customer experience. The videos auto play, so if all you want to do is browse older episodes, you first have to stop the video that is currently playing. You still can’t do picture in picture, a feature most video apps have, and there is still the commercials playing louder than the show issue that the developers have claimed to be aware of, but haven’t fixed, for several years.

In the end though, this is my only method of watching the Daily Show, so it’s not like I am going to stop using it.

PS: The content is great, if the other issues don’t bother you.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble using the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with your device information for further assistance. We are here to help.

### 1/5 — Can’t connect the app with tv provider

*2018-07-28, version 11.0*

So when I downloaded this app I wanted to watch South Park because it’s one of my favorite shows and then I clicked on South Park and there’s some free episodes, and the rest are locked because you need a tv provider to watch all of the episodes witch I understand. But when I try to link my tv provider to the app it just shows me this page that says you now have access to all shows and episodes ( without putting any information about my tv provider) then when I click out of the page it it still tells me 
That you need a tv provider to watch everything. So I can’t even put my information in to get everything

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Vertical video and auto-play ??

*2021-03-31, version 78.0*

Why is the iPad app vertical?? It’s been bothering me for months!

UPDATE: the vertical interface has now been bothering me for years! I’ve been a comedy central viewer since the 90s, sneaking Kids in the Hall and old Gilda Radner and Robin Williams (and maybe a little Pryor when the parents weren’t around) stand up sets as a kid, and we even got my very nice very polite mom hooked on South Park! I’ve been watching the daily show since Craig Kilborn and can remember being apprehensive about that new Jon guy taking over. 

I just tried to watch Michelle Obama’s Daily Show ep and it just kept starting in the middle of the Eric Andre interview. This has been happening for a week. I deleted the app and reinstalled, and both this and the Nomzamo Mbatha episode straight up won’t play. Michelle Obama I get the spinny wheel, and Nomzamo Mbatha I just get a black screen saying it isn’t available. I’ve probably missed 10 episodes of the daily show in six years overall and to have it melt down while trying to watch Michelle Obama is just too much. I had to come back to write my review. 

Please. This app is terrible. Other folks have outlined how terrible it is in technical terms. I’m giving you the emotional plea. I’ve quit watching all sorts of wonderful CC content because of its dysfunction but usually I can get the daily show to work. 

I know you can do it. I know you can make it better. Please.

### 1/5 — i just wanted south park

*2021-03-30, version 78.0*

Ok yes, this was an app for quality shows. But, i think i watched more ads than actual show time. Like there were 2 ads at the start, the intro, then 5 after the intro, im a bit annoyed by it. 
If the ads were 5 seconds and actually entertaining i wouldnt mind but theyre all about 30 seconds, and i feel thats stupid

i also believe that some shows dont want people to screencast a piece of the show, because it could be on a pirated website by now. Some also take an infamous show, post it to their own media and claim it as their own. Piracy is a serious and terrible crime, and plagiarism isnt cool

### 1/5 — THIS APP IS HORRIBLE!

*2020-10-10, version 66.0*

I can’t watch pass any first episodes because the stupid thing keeps asking you to “find a provider” and sign in! The issue is that I’ve got 2 different accounts with different providers from their list so I should be able to sign. In and keep watching with no hold ups BUT for some reason it will NOT let me sign in 😡 it keeps taking my in this loop where it appears to be logging me in and returning me to the app but instead it’s taking me to an error screen! I’m so frustrated with this process.. This is by far the WORST constructed app I have ever used and not to mention it’s and “OFFICIAL” App 🙄

### 1/5 — Lots of problems

*2019-11-29, version 33.0*

A few months ago I stopped using the app because it would cut to an Ad after every scene, so about 50+ AD's for a 30 minute show.

I decided to give it another try and now the AD's are at predictable breaks in the show again, but I'll get half way through a show and it will be unable to load the video. What a bummer watching only half of a show over and over again no matter which episode I choose. I try reloading a few times but trust me when I say that the AD's never have a problem loading. I'm back to watching AD's all the time trying to load up the remaining video. Video cuts out on iPad and iPhone.

I tried using Chromecast to watch episodes also, but the sound would not work.

You are better off finding something else to do than use this app.

I see the developer likes to read the reviews, I've tried contacting them in the past, but they see frustrating the users with Ad's and not being able to see content as a feature and not a problem.

### 1/5 — Awful App, unable to watch full episodes of anything

*2019-11-19, version 33.0*

This app seems to work at first, if you can get past the awful design (no search bar or even alphabetically organized shows) and actually find what you’re looking for, the show starts to play. After getting about halfway through the episode however, the video ends and a message “Sorry, this video is not available” pops up. There is no way to remove it. Starting the video again works for about a second before the message pops back up again. It is impossible to watch videos on this app, literally the only thing it is supposed to do. Absolutely awful and unacceptable. My grandmother could design a better app and she barely knows her way around a microwave.

### 1/5 — Piece of crap app!

*2019-09-20, version 33.0*

I just downloaded this app & couldn’t watch half the shows I wanted to watch. The other half I tried watching kept being cut off in the middle of them then it would skip to another episode. So I deleted it. Kinda bummed because I couldn’t watch the one show I downloaded this app to watch. Don’t usually write reviews but this is ridiculous. I would give this app zero stars if I could. Read through some of the comments & I am shocked that there are so many one star review & that so many others have had the issues as I have. Some go way back & the developers have the same few response to all complaints. They obviously have no desire to do anything about it. Such a shame..they have lots of really good shows.

### 1/5 — Ughh

*2019-08-10, version 33.0*

I can’t watch it on my laptop. The website says Comedy Central is not part of my package - even tho it is. 
I can’t watch it on my PS4 because there is no CC app. So I have to use my phone. 
But every time I minimize it and open it up - no matter how much time goes by - it starts at the home page and I have to scroll and scroll and scroll to find the show again and find the episode I was on BECAUSE THERE IS SO SEARCH OPTION. Not only that it now keeps saying I have connection problems on the homepage when I am not connected to WiFi. But it was doing just fine before without WiFi. Like the time it takes to find the show, plus the ads, the load time, it’s not even worth it unless I’ve set aside X amount of time to watch so I don’t have to scroll and find it again or whatever.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble on the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with your device information for further assistance. We are here to help.

### 1/5 — Obvious features missing, pretty surprising..

*2019-04-11, version 25.0*

This is a great app if you enjoy spending tons of time searching for what you’re wanting to watch. Oh, by searching I mean scrolling. Apparently the developers of this app thought not having a search or favorite function made sense. It seems to be almost a default function for any other similar app that the lack of having a search bar was so surprising I even double checked while writing this to make sure I didn’t miss it. I came to check the reviews purposefully to be sure I wasn’t the only one confused about this or missing it. So anyway, if you enjoy mindlessly scrolling and using apps that are entirely not user friendly, this should be your jam. Again, this is not a technical problem. Everything functions fine, hence the one and only star, but this app doesn’t even group things into category by host/comedian or anything like that. Again, surprising and disappointing coming from such a popular channel. This seems like it could be an easy fix so hopefully that will be taken into consideration... Update: just want to be clear this is not a “troubleshooting” issue... the design of the app is just terrible at baseline

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble using the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with your device information for further assistance. We are here to help.

### 1/5 — Can’t finish a show

*2019-02-18, version 23.0*

Casting from this app is ridiculous! It took me almost 3 hours to get through a 1 hour special. Every time it was time for a commercial break, the shows freeze and I have to stop casting, find the place in the show I was at (because for some reason CC doesn’t understand “resume watching”) and then start all over again for the next commercial break. If I caught it right before the commercials, it would instantly freeze again, so I had to go through the process more times than there are commercial breaks. And the commercial breaks? What a pain! Two commercials in the first half-so restarting the show wasn’t too terrible-followed by 6-8 in the second half. That meant I didn’t finish the show because I was tired of restarting it literally every 3-5 minutes. Regardless of the restarting, the number and space between the commercial breaks are frustrating. I get that it’s revenue and necessary, but at least space them out more appropriately so people don’t lose the desire to finish the show.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We hate to hear that you're having trouble streaming content in the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with more details about the issue you're experiencing. We are here to help.

### 1/5 — Needs a lot of work

*2019-02-08, version 22.0*

Yes I’m glad I can watch a very wide variety of shows but why is there no option to remove ads? I’m very willing to pay to get rid of them. My next complaint is why is the play button so small? A lot of people stream on their phones and it’s ridiculously small. Next is why is there no “recently watched” or something? I’m in the middle of a show and I have to scroll through all of them to find it? Ridiculous. Obviously you want your newest shows to be watched but frankly the new ones aren’t as good. Charge people $5-$10 to remove ads and guaranteed they would pay. But you obviously hate making money so don’t take that advice. Just continue your crap app and don’t listen to anyone. 

Sincerely, a not happy user

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — All COMCENT All the TIME What more could you want?!

*2017-08-11, version 3.4.3*

Allows me to catch up on all the episodes of any show I've missed. Anytime I wish. Privately. Without hogging the main TV in the family room. Waiting on line at the store, when the drive they'd packed or when I'm done at the mall but the rest of the family's still shopping. It's just me, my favorite shows from Comedy Central and time to enjoy them. Love this App!!!

### 4/5 — Mostly awesome. Ads not varied much.

*2018-03-19, version 3.4.3*

I love catching up on the daily show and I understand the need for ads to keep business going. However, I wish that it wouldn’t be the same exact ad every time there is a commercial break. There is this army ad I think I have memorized from watching one episode of The Daily Show. There’s a point at which over-saturation of the same commercial will actually cause an aversion to the product. Thank you for reading!

### 4/5 — Comedy Central App is almost a 5

*2017-09-26, version 3.4.3*

Everything I could expect from the app is here. I enjoy the ability to catch up on my favorite shows at my leisure. What keeps this from being a 5-star rating is volume. Besides being an obvious sellout to advertisers by nearly doubling the volume of commercials, where I have to frantically turn down because it's sheer obnoxiousness, the volume of the CONTENT is slow low I practically have my iPad less than two feet away. Ads pay for the service, but when it is at the expense of the content, lower viewership leads to fewer people being reached by said ads. Please correct the volume of content to be equal to that of commercials.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. Thanks for reaching out! We are aware of the issue and are working to resolve it. Please email us at help@cc.com if you have any additional questions.

### 4/5 — Good shows, bad app

*2017-09-26, version 3.4.3*

I have two shows that I like to watch in particular and I don’t catch the shows in TV, so here I am in the app, which I don’t mind but the commercials are annoying not just because they are commercials that I don’t pay any attention to, but because the commercials buffer too long (or what ever is happening that it doesn’t play right) and then it totally cuts out and it shuts down, then I have to rewatch (but I’m too annoyed to do so).

### 3/5 — Nice to be able to watch live tv, but....

*2019-06-29, version 25.0*

Why does the app not respond to the device’s orientation on iPad? Finding something watch works only in portrait mode, and only once watching in full screen can the device be turned to landscape and the app will follow. This is very awkward for those of us using keyboard cases. Also, the app doesn’t do picture in picture on the iPad (other cable channel apps do), which means that multitasking with the CC show in the corner of the screen isn’t possible. I like the content, but it seems that the app designers aren’t considering all the ways people use/hold their devices!

### 3/5 — Update from prior review

*2019-05-28, version 25.0*

Someone from Comedy Central contacted me and wanted to contact me about the issues I was having. I appreciate that. Unfortunately I never ended up contacting them. But in the plus side I have had way less issues with the app. On a side note, I tried the new Comedy Central Now channel for Apple TV but it doesn’t have all of Comedy Central’s content. You would think it would since it’s a single channel your paying for. Will not be using past trial unless they update it with all the content like South Park.

### 3/5 — Great Content, Terrible App

*2019-01-06, version 19.0*

Comedy Central is packed with great shows and stand-up. Don’t get me wrong, if you want to watch quality shows, get this app. But the actual app itself seems like it was developed before iPhones were put on the market. There is no search bar for shows, so you have to scroll through a list of seemingly hundreds of shows to find the one you’re looking for. Autoplay does not work between seasons (s2 e1 will not play after the last episode in s1) if it even does work between normal episodes (which it sometimes struggles to do). The ads are also a serious problem. Comedy Central only has a small assortment of mainly local ads that it will play over and over again. For a while, the same 15 second Pizza Hut ad was looped 4 times in a row during every commercial break in a show. I am also having difficulty watching some shows. I am unable to watch all of season 6 of Reno 911. I get automatically dropped into season 5 and an episode starts playing, but when I try to scroll over to other seasons on the season scroll bar, it won’t change from the list of season 5 episodes for me to watch.
All in all, it seems like developers were too busy prepping for Y2K to create a usable interface.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support.We hate to hear that you're having trouble using the app! We would like the opportunity to troubleshoot this issue with you. Please email us at help@cc.com with your device information for further assistance. We are here to help.

### 3/5 — Where is the basic functionality?

*2018-12-14, version 18.0*

I can’t seem to find a simple search button? When I’m watching there’s no button to skip back I have to scrub the video which is never accurate with my fat fingers. I don’t know when these functions were removed as I haven’t used the app in ages until just recently. Other than that I enjoy the app and the shows that are included, I just don’t see why these features were removed, because I know they used to be included.

### 3/5 — Stuck in ad mode

*2018-06-29, version 4.5.0*

The content was great until it was stuck in "ad mode". Basically, as of a couple of days ago, when I select an option from the main menu for a show, the app will automatically start playing ads when I click on the show. I no longer have the option to select a specific episode of a show, just goes right to ads. I decided to leave it running for a bit to see if maybe CC just upped how many ads play when you navigate around, and it looped around in ad after ad for 5 minutes before I decided this was legit in what I'm dubbing "ad mode". Uninstall / reinstall did not fix the issue, unfortunately. Since it's been a few days I'm going to just let it sit on ice until an app update appears. I still gave the app 3 stars because prior to this I really enjoyed it. But just to vent a little:

- Ad shenanigans like this is why people install ad blockers in web browsers, which doesn't directly apply here but I know some content creators bemoan the existence of them. 
- Ad shenanigans like this is also why people are willing to pay for an ad free experience. 

Please CC please 1) fix the glitch and 2) offer an ad free tier.

**Developer response:** This is Comedy Central App Support. We understand that ads are probably not the reason you come to the app. Our apps are ad supported and being ad supported means we can keep a lot of our content available to you free of charge. That said we are always experimenting with different advertisers and types of ads to create the best user experience. We would appreciate your feedback so we can best understand your experience on our app. Please email us at help@cc.com!

### 3/5 — Auto play needs to have option to disable, or at least play next show instead of last.

*2017-10-18, version 3.4.3*

My biggest problem with the app is it’s auto play function. I personally like to choose whether I want to play another episode or not rather than have it forced on me, but what’s even worse with the way autoplay is implemented in this app, is hat instead of playing the next episode, it plays the previous episode, so when you try to binge on the show to catch up, it keeps going back to the episode that you already watched, rather than the next one, unless you intervene to stop the episode and choose the next one instead.

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