Does not surprise me at all. South africans in general are not creative people and we like to take ideas/design/innovations from overseas and implement them locally. Pretty sad really.
I think the comedy central logo looks much better. Hate it when people use cheap fonts for a logo. Rather design your own logo and don't use a font... buh. Bet you that guy who designed it got paid a lot and it only took him 5 minutes. Well I guess that makes him a bad ass