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Article: Comedy Central Wraps Ben Stein Administration ... Sarah Silverman's Scared of Anna Nicole.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2002
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Byline: Jason Gay
Wednesday, Aug. 14
Comedy Central is cashing out on Win Ben Stein's Money. The network confirmed on Tuesday, August 13 that is ceasing production on the 5-year-old game show-one of Comedy Central's longest-running original series -in which contestants went head-to-head with the bespectacled former Nixon speech writer turned actor.
"Win Ben Stein's Money has been a great success for the network since its launch in 1997, both from a ratings and branding standpoint," a Comedy Central spokesperson said. "However, it lost a little bit of steam in the ratings department over the course of the last year or so, and as a result, at the ...