App Review: Comedy Central

 

The app is mostly good and easy to use with a couple caveats which knocks it down a couple stars for me. First, they jack up the volume of the commercials, so much so that I often mute the commercials. Second, the episodes are only unlocked for the most recent shows, unless you are signed in through something like DirecTVNOW, or some other cable or satellite-type subscription. So for example, only the current week of Daily Show episodes will be unlocked. This would not be much of an issue if the app kept you signed in once you had logged in one time. It does not do so, however, and it is kind of a pain to keep signing into it if you get behind on shows and want to watch older ones.

These days, most, if not all, of the Comedy Central material is not streamed on the Paramount + App, so if you subscribe to that, there is no reason to use this one, and that gives you a better user experience anyway. But, this is available if you do not want to subscribe to another streaming service.