HA! Comedy Network Promos 1990

HA! TV Comedy Network launched on April 1,1990. 365 days later, it merged with HBO's The Comedy Channel to become CTV: The Comedy Network. 60 days later, June 1st ,1991, the network became Comedy Central. Here's some promos from it's first weeks on the air.

[@mistergone5156]

I watched this network religiously when it was on!

[@ToonsmythProductions]

WOW! Thank you for posting these! They had the BEST bumpers for this network! I just wish you had the 3rd Mel Torme one. The one that goes "HA is better... It's so much better... It's better than cleaning your bathroom, or touching an eel..."

[@GenerationYM]

Where I live, we had the Comedy Channel, from HBO which was the other half of Comedy Central.

[@CartoonsAndGameShows]

Never thought I'd ever see any actual clips of HA!

[@HOODY6582]

We had this with our cable provider. I remember watching reruns of The Charmings on Ha!

[@jasoncinema]

So did we, which surprised me as we never got new channels when they launched. If we hadn't, I'd have never fallen in love with "Mystery Science Theater 3000" at a young age.
We never received HA! The Comedy Network.

[@StarsOnESP]

Thanks for posting more of these. I hope I started a trend... :-)

[@TerryT1976]

i sure wish I had HA! Comedy Network years ago. I had no idea they had such great classic shows like That Girl, Rhoda. The Lucy Show and my personal favorite, Love American Style (which I found out it ran on HA! on some DVDs I bought).

[@TheRealJJJ]

2:34 - This one with Mel Torme was my fondest memory of the early days of "Ha!"

[@jamiewillkner8742]

Ha! Was way cooler than CTV.

[@scottfbradley]

Wish someone had the Phil Hartman bumper where he did impressions in German (John Wayne, Jack Nicholson)

[@kengeorgejones6855]

I remember this vanishing and for a while I had no idea it had become Comedy Central.
I used to watch so much of these channels - haven't bothered with Comedy Central in years and years now.

[@johnnysama]

What is that piece of music that plays from 0:00-0:38?

[@HOODY6582]

Most likely just placement music made for the channel

[@bernardhicks1872]

Found it: ua-cam.com/video/djRzt8FmznI/v-deo.htmlsi=PPLZIxuEIsP2Y5l9

[@rlhippen]

The Comedy Channel and Ha! merged together to form Comedy Central in 1991.

[@johnnyballenatl]

At first, it was called CTV: The Comedy Network...that is, until they got into a little heap of trouble with Canada's CTV network, which led to the Comedy Central name.

[@ioannaki623]

what am I doing here?

[@PTH4Fun]

Talk About gross @ 2:07!