Daniel Tosh: Comic mines Internet for material

ToshWhat do pubescent boys and teenagers find funny? While a lot of Hollywood struggles to reply to that question, Daniel Tosh appears to possess cracked the riddle. Having a mixture of gross-out humor and politically incorrect jokes interspersed with Internet exhibitionism, the standup's "Tosh." likes the perch of Comedy Central's greatest-ranked show.It's really no coincidence the ascent from the weekly skein, which bowed last year and today reaches 4 million audiences, mirrors an upswing of YouTube, social media and video blogging or vlogging. The Florida native spotlights the personas behind the viral videos of the day, for example Australia artist Pricasso and the penis-etched masterpieces.Meanwhile, the standup's special, "Daniel Tosh: Happy Ideas," hard his presence on Comedy Central, drawing 3.21 million for that network. The comic also keeps up a difficult live-act pace between L.A. standup and touring. Last year's "Tosh Tour Twenty Ten" offered a lot more than 200,000 tickets and made nearly $7 million. He adopted that track of the 2010 hot ticket, "Tosh Tour on Ice.""My standup is clearly still greatly 'me' and my humor, however the tour is totally different," the press-shy comedian, who's recuperating from quadruple hernia surgery, told the Santa Barbara Independent this past year. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com