Doug Herzog

Doug Herzog

Douglas Alan "Doug" Herzog (born July 16, 1959) is an American television executive.

He is currently serving as President of MTV Networks Entertainment Group. He is credited with bringing South Park, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report to Viacom's Comedy Central and canceling Mystery Science Theater 3000.

He has held senior positions with USA Network, where he helped launch Monk, and at Fox, launching Malcolm in the Middle. Prior to his first association with Comedy Central, he had been an Associate Producer on CNN and TBS, and a senior manager at MTV, and was responsible for MTV News, Camp MTV, The Real World, Road Rules, Beavis and Butt-head, The MTV Movie Awards, and The MTV Video Music Awards.

He is also mentioned in the South Park episode "Cartoon Wars Part II". In the episode, Kyle gives a speech to the president of the network as Cartman threatens to shoot him. The speech, in which Kyle begs the president not to censor an image of Muslim prophet Muhammad, is taken almost verbatim from a speech that Trey Parker gave to Herzog concerning censorship of the episode, so Kyle calls the president Doug, referring to Herzog. However, even though Muhammad had previously been shown on South Park, the image of Muhammad was censored by Comedy Central in "Cartoon Wars".

Herzog is a graduate of Emerson College in Boston.

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Business positions
Preceded by
Robert Kreek
President of Comedy Central
1995-1998
Succeeded by
Larry Divney
Preceded by
Peter Roth
President of FOX
1998-2000
Succeeded by
Gail Berman

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