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The second part of the show (and probably its most unique aspect) usually consists of a "Web Redemption", in which a person who has embarrassed him/herself in an online video is brought on the show and given a chance to "redeem" themselves. The segment usually starts with an interview in which Daniel asks his guest about the background of the video in question, usually followed by some sort of training, then finally, the redemption itself. If the person was trying to do something and failed in their attempt, their redemption will usually be for them to try again and succeed. They have done some variations on this segment, such as a "Web Investigation" where they find if a video was faked.

The third part of the show is more variable in what it features. Originally, Daniel would feature an original celebrity video during this part, though he has, as of late, used the part to interview internet celebrities or just show more videos, with longer commentary on each one. There are some recurring segments that also show up in this part of the show, including "Is it Racist?" and "Guess What Happens Next", both of which are [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|pretty self-explanatory]]. The Viewer Video of the Week is also usually shown during this part, before the commercial break. It's not uncommon for Daniel to also use the fourth segment to show a longer video with more commentary than usual.

The third part of the show is more variable in what it features. Originally, Daniel would feature an original celebrity video during this part, though he has, as of late, used the part to interview internet celebrities or just show more videos, with longer commentary on each one. There are some recurring segments that also show up in this part of the show, including "Is it Racist?" and "Guess What Happens Next", both of which are [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|pretty self-explanatory]]. The Viewer Video of the Week is also usually shown during this part, before the commercial break. It's not uncommon for Daniel to also use the fourth segment to show a longer video with more commentary than usual.

The fourth and final segment was once not very significant but now frequently features the show's fans in some way, either through their [[Twitter|tweets]] or through videos they send in. These segments usually begin with Daniel describing the theme of the segment and what he did to get the fans to send in their tweets or videos, followed by showing the tweets/videos themselves. Whenever possible, the tweets/videos usually insult Daniel in some way; frequent targets include his sexuality, the perceived lack of humor in his show, and [[Your Mom|his mother]].

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* [[Ten Minute Retirement]]: At one point Daniel decides to quit the show, and holds auditions for his replacement. [[Chris Rock]] ended up getting the gig and didn't even make it anywhere close to ten minutes before getting fed up, saying the show was stupid, and giving it back to Daniel.

* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: At one point Daniel decides to quit the show, and holds auditions for his replacement. [[Chris Rock]] ended up getting the gig and didn't even make it anywhere close to ten minutes before getting fed up, saying the show was stupid, and giving it back to Daniel.

* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Untwisted at the beginning of one episode:

{{quote| '''Daniel''': Welcome to Tosh.0, the most pro-transgender show on all of cable!<br />

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** Used particularly well in an episode where he encourages viewers to drink every time he gets bleeped.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: After showing the video of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZP4Ugev82I&feature=fvw the worst wedding DJ ever], Daniel says, "That's ''not'' how you check for lumps... y-you use two fingers..."

** Also invoked during a segment where people could ask Daniel questions over [[Twitter]], and one asked, "How does such an unfunny douche get his own show?" Daniel replies, "Ok, that is not nice; [[Important Things ~~With~~ Demetri Martin|Demetri Martin]] is a wonderful person."

** Also invoked during a segment where people could ask Daniel questions over [[Twitter]], and one asked, "How does such an unfunny douche get his own show?" Daniel replies, "Ok, that is not nice; [[Important Things with Demetri Martin|Demetri Martin]] is a wonderful person."

** One video has him standing on the table in a board meeting and swinging at an iPad with a golf club as if it were a golf ball. Among the snarky comments about his stupidity is a shot at his golf game -- "Try opening up your stance and not drop your back shoulder so much. You swing like a girl." To which Tosh replied, "Yeah, if a girl could hit from the men's tees."

* [[Country Matters]]: As of season 3, Tosh's new sign-off phrase is [[Fun ~~With~~ Acronyms|"C U Next Tuesday]] you cunts!"

* [[Country Matters]]: As of season 3, Tosh's new sign-off phrase is [[Fun with Acronyms|"C U Next Tuesday]] you cunts!"

* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: [http://tosh.comedycentral.com/video-clips/uncensored---video-breakdown---woman-attacked-by-a-polar-bear What the fuck?! Did a polar bear just start eating her?!]

* [[Discriminate and Switch]]: After showing a video of a Hispanic child riding a toy car down a hill and flipping over, Daniel remarks, "I hope he didn't get hurt, because you know he doesn't have insurance." *audience groans* "''Because he's a child.''"

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** Zig Zagged with "[http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=266264&title=surprise-trust-falls Surprise Trust Falls]". Subverted when Daniel follows his surprise trust falls by saying, "Feel free to send us your own surprise trust falls to our website, and be careful." Doubly subverted when Daniel is "forced" to ask people to stop doing them after people start sending in [http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=267720&title=viewer-surprise-trust-falls their own videos]. Triply subverted when, after showing the surprise trust falls already sent in, Daniel says, "Screw it, keep sending them in!"

** Subverted in the episode where he makes a human chain with a bunch of other people and has one end tazed. He shows clips of people around the office practicing with an electric fence wire on "Goat" strength, then remarked that nobody wanted to try "Bear" strength. He then tells the audience to not send him videos of them grabbing electric fence wires... unless its at "Bear" strength.

* [[Double Standard Rape (Male On Male)]]: Antoine Dodson's web redemption involved building an [[Acme Products|Acme Rapist Trap]] and using Daniel (in pink hotpants) as bait. The rapist they caught? [[Ripped from the Headlines|Ben Roethlisberger]].

* [[Double Standard Rape (Male on Male)]]: Antoine Dodson's web redemption involved building an [[Acme Products|Acme Rapist Trap]] and using Daniel (in pink hotpants) as bait. The rapist they caught? [[Ripped from the Headlines|Ben Roethlisberger]].

* [[Dueling Shows]]: With G4's ''[[Web Soup]]''.

* [[Precious Puppies]]: Daniel has a Shih Tzu who makes occasional appearances, just because. Needless to say it cutens the place up considerably, even with all the depravity surrounding it.

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: The "Guess What Happens Next", "Is He Retarded" and "Is it Racist?" segments, as well as most of the clips that play before the commercial breaks (see [[Running Gag]]).

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The "Guess What Happens Next", "Is He Retarded" and "Is it Racist?" segments, as well as most of the clips that play before the commercial breaks (see [[Running Gag]]).

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: All of the puns Daniel made in regard to the unfortunate domain name of the week: hotelkuntz.com.

** The season 3 premire. One of the promos for it had Tosh ''out right declaring'' it was messed up.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Daniel noted that his Wikipedia page seems to be lacking, so he encouraged his fans to edit and add whatever they'd like. Soon after, [http://www.comedycentral.com/tosh.0/2010/02/03/your-wikipedia-entries/ the page was locked due to vandalism].

* [[A Good Name for A Rock Band]]: "'Dick Vomit' is not good live. [[[Beat]]] [[Sincerity Mode|That's their name!]] It's 'Dick Vomit'."

* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: "'Dick Vomit' is not good live. [[[Beat]]] [[Sincerity Mode|That's their name!]] It's 'Dick Vomit'."

* [[Groin Attack]]: Frequently seen on the show. Inverted with the "Game Ovaries" segment, in which Daniel hoped to "introduce a new genre of video to the internet", i.e. the female groin attack.

* [[Hookers and Blow]]: One of the commercials for Season 3 had Daniel claiming that all his new fame and wealth hasn't changed him, [[Blatant Lies|while using a giant razor blade to cut a massive pile of cocaine]].

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** Verbal: During the breakdown of the video of the guy who fell through his roof, Daniel says, "And he takes a ''gruesome'' three-inch fall."

** Historical/Situation: Early on in the show's history, during one of the first segments that involved [[Twitter]], Daniel said he couldn't wait for Twitter to die so he wouldn't have to do those segments anymore. Two seasons later, half of the fandom-participation segments he does involve his fans responding to him via Twitter.

* [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Gold]]: Daniel himself. He will usually not hesitate to crack a joke at the expense of the person he is redeeming during a Web Redemption, but he is occasionally very respectful of those he is redeeming, either because they are older than him (like the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etla7UzT2Qc Afro-ninja]), because they were genuine enough enough to earn his respect (like Scarlet or the balloon guy), or because they were young (like David or the Phillies fan's daughter). And even when he does make fun of them, he ''is'' giving them another shot at whatever they messed up at.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Daniel himself. He will usually not hesitate to crack a joke at the expense of the person he is redeeming during a Web Redemption, but he is occasionally very respectful of those he is redeeming, either because they are older than him (like the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etla7UzT2Qc Afro-ninja]), because they were genuine enough enough to earn his respect (like Scarlet or the balloon guy), or because they were young (like David or the Phillies fan's daughter). And even when he does make fun of them, he ''is'' giving them another shot at whatever they messed up at.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Invoked in a Web Redemption, when a video shows a man attempting to do a complicated slam dunk falling into a garbage can immediately after littering. In Daniel's words, "That would be some fast-acting karma."

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: In one Video Breakdown, as a guy and a girl are walking by, one of two bystanders winds up and backhands her across the face. The girl's boyfriend ''immediately'' starts beating the shit out of them.

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** Season 3 now has a disclaimer at the beginning of the episode.

* [[Overly Long Gag]]: "If you never heard of the double-jump, it's the trampoline version of "the Speedball." If you've never heard of the Speedball, it's what killed [[John Belushi]]. If you've never heard of John Belushi, he's the brother of Jim Belushi. If you've never heard of Jim Belushi, he's the star of ''[[According to Jim]].'' If you've never heard of ''According to Jim''... [[Take That|good for you!]]"

* [[Product Displacement]]: Daniel introduced a picture of a bat with a rather large, erm, [[Beavis and Butthead|"unit"]], by singing an off-key rendition of the theme to [[Batman (TV)|Adam West's Batman]], eventually lampshading it by saying that he has to sing like he's tone deaf so the network doesn't get sued.

* [[Product Displacement]]: Daniel introduced a picture of a bat with a rather large, erm, [[Beavis and Butthead|"unit"]], by singing an off-key rendition of the theme to [[Batman (TV series)|Adam West's Batman]], eventually lampshading it by saying that he has to sing like he's tone deaf so the network doesn't get sued.

** This was also used in a segment in a season 2 episode in which Daniel said goodbye to casual jackets by singing, "It's so hard--", cutting it off there and saying, "That's as far as I can go before I have to cut a check to Boyz II Men."

* [[Rapid-Fire Comedy]]: The show's signature style, especially during the first part of the show. Exemplified by the "20 Seconds on the Clock" segment.

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This is pretty much the basis of Tosh's comedy.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: In-universe example (for lack of a better term). See [[Ten Minute Retirement]]. Inverted in that the studio audience clearly prefers Chris over Daniel, and when Daniel comes back they boo him and chant "Bring back Rock!" until the commercial break.

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]: In-universe example (for lack of a better term). See [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]. Inverted in that the studio audience clearly prefers Chris over Daniel, and when Daniel comes back they boo him and chant "Bring back Rock!" until the commercial break.

* [[Running Gag]]: Tons.

** [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|Puke]]. Lampshaded when Daniel noted in one of the earlier episodes that every episode up to and including that one included a shot of someone puking. Practically parodied when Daniel did a segment in which the fans could ask him questions via [[Twitter]]; five questions were shown, in a row, in which separate people had asked why he stopped showing puke every episode, each dutifully followed by a video of someone vomiting.

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** Before the third commercial break, rather than saying, "We'll be right back with more Tosh.0," Daniel says, "Well be right back with more [name of some canceled [[Comedy Central]] show]." This too has been lampshaded, twice.

{{quote| We'll be right back with more--ugh, I'm not happy about this one--of [[The Sarah Silverman Program]].<br />

We'll be right back with more [[~~Reno 911 (TV)|~~Reno 911]]. *crowd groans* [[Too Soon~~|Too soon~~]]? }}

We'll be right back with more [[Reno 911]]. *crowd groans* [[Too Soon]]? }}

** '''TRUST FALL!!'''

** "And your friends ignored your pain long enough to keep recording this video. And for that, we thank you."

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* [[Tempting Fate]]: You could say that Daniel does this when he cuts to the third commercial break by saying, "Well be right back with more [name of some canceled [[Comedy Central]] show]."

** This always struck this troper as more of a case of [[Medium Awareness]] and lampshading Comedy Central's habit of making a show (often by giving a stand up comedian a sketch show which ends with predictable results), and then canceling it after a season or so.

* [[There Are No Girls On the Internet|There Are No Girls Watching Shows About The Internet]]: After showing the Surprised Kitty video and thanking the kitten for "helping that old woman feel less alone", he paused, cupped his hand around his ear and said, "Do you hear that? That's the sound of our last female viewer changing the channel."

* [[There Are No Girls on the Internet|There Are No Girls Watching Shows About The Internet]]: After showing the Surprised Kitty video and thanking the kitten for "helping that old woman feel less alone", he paused, cupped his hand around his ear and said, "Do you hear that? That's the sound of our last female viewer changing the channel."

* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: One segment showed a bunch of "perfectly innocent" words that were bleeped because they sounded dirty in context, including "Hair Diaper"<ref> "What could I have possibly said that would make hair diaper sound dirty?... It was about Demi." </ref>, "Slop Hole"<ref> "Slop hole sounds like it should still be bleeped." </ref>, "Monkey Cancer", "Tumor Juice", "Slut Baby", "Rape Dungeon"<ref> He claims it sounds more like a video game level</ref>, and "Handy".

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Daniel's approach to the Web Redmeptions frequently amounts to showing the person doing the same thing, but making them look cooler while doing it. Tron Guy and the Lightning Bolt LARPer are particularly good examples of this.