Hulu.com, the second biggest provider of videos online, said Viacom Inc.’s Comedy Central decided to remove “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” from the Web site.

The programs won’t be available after March 9, Los Angeles-based Hulu LLC said yesterday on its blog. The company said it was unable to secure rights from Comedy Central to continue providing the shows.

Viacom ranked sixth in online audiences among video sites with 372.6 million views in December, according to a Feb. 5 statement from ComScore Inc. Hulu had 1.01 billion, trailing only Google Inc.’s YouTube. The programs will still be available at TheDailyShow.com and ColbertNation.com, the New York-based cable channel said yesterday in an e-mailed statement.

“We had a great experience with Hulu,” Comedy Central said in the statement. “We hope to work with its team again in the future.”

The agreement that allowed the shows to be available at Hulu.com since June 2008 expired, Comedy Central said. Hulu owners include News Corp., General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal and Walt Disney Co.

Hulu.com and Comedy Central have had “strong results” in the last 21 months in viewership and ad revenue, Andy Forssell, Hulu.com’s senior vice president of content and distribution, wrote in the blog post.

“We are continuing to talk to the Comedy Central folks about a number of opportunities,” Forssell wrote.