DANIEL TOSH BEATING STEWART, COLBERT IN RATINGS (DANIEL WHO?)

Unlike Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, Daniel Tosh is far from being a household name, and his show has received little publicity, but his Tosh.0 on Comedy Central Wednesday nights has, after six episodes of its second season, exceeded Stewart’s and Colbert’s ratings, the Hollywood Reporter observed on its website Monday. Last Wednesday the show, which airs at 10:30 p.m., attracted 2.4 million viewers. “It’s a show that came in under the radar and it’s a truly word-of-mouth kind of show,” Kent Alterman, head of original programing on the cable network, told the Reporter. What makes the popularity of the show even more surprising is that it’s aimed at young people who spend a lot of their time searching for entertainment on their computer screens, game boxes and mobile devices.