Once in a while, the AV Club section of The Onion puts out something really interesting, and this is one of those times. It's a history (Part 1, anyway) of Comedy Central, in which some of the people involved in the channel's early days talk about its formation back in the early 90s from the merger of 2 rival channels, The Comedy Channel and Ha! MST3K creator Joel Hodgson is featured a lot, as are some of the channels' early executives. Anyway, here's the link.
http://www.avclub.com/article/night-after-night-midnight-oral-history-comedy-cen-234349
http://www.avclub.com/article/night-after-night-midnight-oral-history-comedy-cen-234349