diff --git a/core/modules/comment/lib/Drupal/comment/Plugin/views/row/CommentRow.php b/core/modules/comment/lib/Drupal/comment/Plugin/views/row/CommentRow.php
index 7bafe53f651..3bae06db9d3 100644
--- a/core/modules/comment/lib/Drupal/comment/Plugin/views/row/CommentRow.php
+++ b/core/modules/comment/lib/Drupal/comment/Plugin/views/row/CommentRow.php
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ use Drupal\Core\Annotation\Translation;
  *   module = "comment",
  *   title = @Translation("Comment"),
  *   help = @Translation("Display the comment with standard comment view."),
- *   theme = "views_view_row_comment",
  *   base = {"comment"},
  *   entity_type = "comment",
  *   type = "normal"
diff --git a/core/modules/comment/templates/views-view-row-comment.tpl.php b/core/modules/comment/templates/views-view-row-comment.tpl.php
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fe2e81fe94..00000000000
--- a/core/modules/comment/templates/views-view-row-comment.tpl.php
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-<?php
-
-/**
- * @file
- * Default simple view template to display a single comment.
- *
- * Rather than doing anything with this particular template, it is more
- * efficient to use a variant of the comment.tpl.php based upon the view,
- * which will be named comment-view-VIEWNAME.tpl.php. This isn't actually
- * a views template, which is why it's not used here, but is a template
- * 'suggestion' given to the comment template, and is used exactly
- * the same as any other variant of the comment template file, such as
- * node-nodeTYPE.tpl.php
- *
- * @ingroup views_templates
- */
-?>
-<?php print $comment; ?>