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{{short description|Canadian comedy TV channel}}
{{distinguish|text=[[The Comedy Channel (disambiguation)|The Comedy Channel]], or [[Comedy Central]] (which briefly used the name "CTV: The Comedy Network")}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox television channel
| name              = CTV Comedy Channel
| logo              = CTV Comedy Channel 2019.svg
| logo_caption      =
| launch_date       = {{start date and age|1997|10|17}}
| closed_date       = 
| picture_format    = [[1080i]] [[HDTV]]<br />(downscaled to [[letterboxed]] [[480i]] for the [[SDTV]] feed)
| network           = 
| owner             = [[BCE Inc.]]
|parent = [[Bell Media]]
| country           = Canada
| area              = National
| headquarters      = [[9 Channel Nine Court]], [[Scarborough, Ontario]]
| former_names      = The Comedy Network (1997–2019)
| replaced          = 
| sister_channels = [[CTV Television Network|CTV]]<br />[[CTV 2]]<br />[[CTV News Channel (Canadian TV channel)|CTV News Channel]]<br />[[CTV Drama Channel]]<br />[[CTV Life Channel]]<br />[[CTV Nature Channel]]<br />[[CTV Sci-Fi Channel]]<br />[[CTV Speed Channel]]<br />[[CTV Wild Channel]]<br />[[Much (TV channel)|Much]]<br />[[Oxygen (Canadian TV channel)|Oxygen]]<br />[[USA Network (Canadian TV channel)|USA Network]]
| timeshift_service = CTV Comedy Channel East<br />CTV Comedy Channel West
| website           = {{URL|www.ctv.ca/comedy}} 
}}

'''CTV Comedy Channel''' (often shortened to '''CTV Comedy''') is a Canadian [[English-language]] [[Discretionary service|discretionary]] [[specialty channel]] owned by [[BCE Inc.]] subsidiary [[Bell Media]] which focuses primarily on [[comedy]] programming and operates two time-shifted feeds, running on [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern]] and [[Pacific Time Zone]] schedules.

The channel first launched on October 17, 1997 as '''The Comedy Network''' by a consortium of Baton Broadcasting, [[Shaw Communications]], [[Astral Media]] {{efn|which would later be acquired by this channel's current ownership}} and Les Films Rozon. Through various acquisitions over the years, the network is solely owned by Bell since 2001.

CTV Comedy Channel originally sourced most of its programming from the U.S.-based cable network [[Comedy Central]]. In the years since the channel's inception, and with the eventual shuttering of its [[Comedy Gold (TV channel)|sister channel]] in 2019, the network would move some of its programming from the latter to sister channel [[Much (TV channel)|Much]] before rebranding to its current name on September 12, 2019.