Comedy Central playlist URL download fails

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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 ```):

PS C:\Users\live\Videos> youtube-dl.exe --verbose http://www.cc.com/shows/chappelle-s-show/episode-guide
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.cc.com/shows/chappelle-s-show/episode-guide']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs mbcs, out cp437, pref cp1252
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.11.08.1
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-10-10.0.14393
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.4, ffprobe 3.1.4, rtmpdump 2.3
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[ComedyCentral] episode-guide: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to extract mgid; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest ve
rsion; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete outpu
t.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpee_sdt7t\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 694,
in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpee_sdt7t\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", lin
e 357, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpee_sdt7t\build\youtube_dl\extractor\mtv.py", line 2
30, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpee_sdt7t\build\youtube_dl\extractor\mtv.py", line 2
24, in _extract_mgid
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpee_sdt7t\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", lin
e 660, in _search_regex
youtube_dl.utils.RegexNotFoundError: Unable to extract mgid; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make su
re you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag
and include its complete output....
<end of log>

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaW_jenozKc
• Single video: https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc
• Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4lCao7KL_QFVb7Iudeipvc2BCavECqzc

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Can't download from Comedy Central

[yan12125]

Comedy Central playlists are not supported yet. See #10003