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• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2016.07.16

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• At least skimmed through README and most notably FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

./youtube-dl -v http://www.comedycentral.tv/staffeln/7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: [u'--proxy', u'', u'--rate-limit', u'2M']
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.comedycentral.tv/staffeln/7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.07.16
[debug] Python version 2.6.2 - Linux-4.6.3-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-3220_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-slackware-13.0.0.0.0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 2.8.4, ffprobe 2.8.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] 7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] 7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4: Downloading webpage
[generic] 7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.comedycentral.tv/staffeln/7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1565, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2525, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2514, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1245, in feed
    self._parser.Parse(data, 0)
ExpatError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 14, column 311
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 682, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 347, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "./youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2282, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.comedycentral.tv/staffeln/7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: http://www.comedycentral.tv/staffeln/7436-the-mindy-project-staffel-4

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Any chance of supporting the German version of Comedy Central? I already tried simply adding the German URL to the _VALID_URL regex of extractor/comedycentral.py, but unfortunately that didn't work.