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Here's a clip from Jeff Ross's new Comedy Central show, The Burn, in which he swings by Sarah Silverman's place to share insults and some smoke. It's pretty delightful! I certainly prefer this sort of roasting — between friends, all in good fun, with everyone on the same page — to the bigger roasts which seem half friendly and half cruel to unwitting outsiders to the comedy world.
On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert dedicated his entire Threat Down segment to nature's most brutal killers other than sharks and I assume some sort of terrifying South American insect: bears. From drunk Ukranian bears being put into rehab to Terminator bears from the future sent to kill him to hippie environmental bears driving hybrids, he sees these furry monsters everywhere he turns. Luckily, he's got a handy decoy to throw them off his scent: Jimmy Fallon.
Comedy Central recently cancelled their planned roast of Kid Rock, but it looks like they've landed a bigger, sadder fish to replace him: Charlie Sheen. The network just announced that they'll be taping the roast of Sheen in LA on September 10th and will then air it at 10pm on September 19th. As Sheen says in the press release, "You could say I've been providing kindling for this Roast for a while. It's time to light it up. It's going to be epic." This kills off the rule that they "only roast the ones they love" once and for all, right? It also is going to be [...]
The Comedy Awards were a sort of strange thing, I thought. And apparently so did the South Park guys, as this week's new episode takes on, well, The Comedy Awards, as well as some rampaging Germans. Whatever, they're just bitter because they didn't win!!!
Group of angry nerds/hackers Anonymous have been in the news lately for battling all sorts of groups, from the enemies of Wikileaks to Scientology to the Westboro Baptist Church. On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald about the group and about how HB Gary's plan to take the group down backfired. But here's the interesting thing: in the middle of the interview, for a split second, Colbert had a Guy Fawkes mask transposed over his face. The mask, from the comic book/movie V for Vendetta is a sort of mascot for the group (I know). Look for it in the below interview at the 3:23 mark.
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