DailyShow.com to go live at Noon on Thursday

We interrupt the election coverage to bring you this breaking news from The Hollywood Reporter:

New ‘Daily Show’ Web site to house archives

NEW YORK — After more than a decade on the air, Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” has its own online home.

The new Web site, DailyShow.com, will go live at noon EST Thursday, presenting nearly the entire video archive of the show for the past nine years.

The site contains more than 16,000 video clips spanning headlines, correspondent pieces and such regular segments as Lewis Black’s “Back in Black” or Stephen Colbert’s “This Week in God.” For now, the archives start in early 1999, covering the Jon Stewart-era of the MTV Networks show. The earlier version of the program, which started in 1996 with host Craig Kilborn, could be available by early 2008.

Uninterrupted episodes will not be available, though full shows can, for the most part, be pieced together from the clips.

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The site’s home page will focus on the previous night’s episode, from which clips will be posted by 8 a.m. EST the next morning, eventually being pushed up to 5 a.m. The destination also is equipped with a timeline that can locate archived clips by date and search tools, like other Viacom sites powered by Google.

Clips also will be tagged and broken into categories based on subject matter, correspondent or a celebrity name involved in the segment. All of these can be sorted separately as well.

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Flannigan said Stewart and several executive producers and writers on the show saw the site last week and were “absolutely ecstatic.” He added that they were excited not just that they could see their work again but also to use the site as a research tool

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“The Colbert Report” and Comedy Central’s library of stand-up performances also could get full-archived sites. Flannigan said those could come together in first-half 2008.

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