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What an odd choice of pre-roll graphics. Are they implying that lightning created the fires? Like God is roasting Roseanne? Or is Roseanne supposed to be in hell? Are we all in hell? Who's in hell, Comedy Central!? Maybe you can figure out with the other preview clips below.
Charlie Sheen finally managed to rope Martin Sheen into his twisted, delusional headspace, Apocalypse Now fantasies and all. Gotta say, I feel like if Martin had put Charlie in his place like this when he was a little younger, things might have turned out a little differently for him. Boundaries are important. Alas, Sheen Senior was busy gazing intensely out the Oval Office windows and listening to Rob Lowe talk really fast, so, better late than never. Only 125 hours till the roast!!
Comedy Central has announced that the roastmaster for the upcoming Roast of Charlie Sheen will be Seth MacFarlane. Man, I didn't think it was possible for them to get this thing more in my wheelhouse, but they did it!!
Wow, they were not joking about The Situation bombing at the Trump Roast. Many of the Sitch's jokes were sub-par, but the majority of them were blown by the worst sense of timing in the world. It was as if he didn't understand the cadence of jokes (or *cough* is functionally illiterate *cough*). I would say watch the video to see what I mean, but it is incredibly painful to watch. The crowd turned on the Situation as his bit dragged on in paralyzingly awkward silence, finally booing so loud that Jeff Ross had to call for some decency to let the man finish. When someone is asking [...]
Jeff Ross has already made fun of everyone in America, so he's moving on to Canada with the Jeff Ross Roasts Canada tour. In this interview, he tells the story of how he first started roasting people in self-defense. And in this one, he gets into what audiences expect from his standup, and whether he ever crosses the line. He brings up the fascinating idea that making people angry is basically part of his job description. As he says, "I'm not doing my job unless somebody gets pissed off." What do you think: does that only apply to roastmasters, or does it ring true in some sense [...]
In the most recent promo for the Roast of Charlie Sheen, Jeff Ross slips into a fabulous little robins' egg blue Gaddafi number to warm up the crowd for a long night [...]
The cancellation of Comedy Central’s Roast of Kid Rock has already led one writer to bemoan the odiously unclassy state of today’s roasts. Jake Kroeger makes the very good point that the original Friars’ Club roasts honored sincerely respected entertainers, while modern Comedy Central roasts often target celebrities already scorned by a lot of people and tend to feel like a “hate-filled comment thread on YouTube.” How exactly have roasts changed over the years, and is there anything defensible about today’s roasts?
One misconception I used to hold about comedy roasts is that they were originally meant to ridicule comedians. When the Friars’ Club was started in [...]
The most interesting part about watching the Charlie Sheen roast, which aired last nigh, is that Charlie Sheen isn't crazy anymore. Well, not actively, undiagnosed-manic-episode crazy. It's been months since Sheen did anything outlandish or potentially career-ending, and it's been practically half a year since the first, second and third wave of Charlie Sheen jokes swept across America. On Sunday, Sheen extended an olive branch to the new cast of Two And A Half Men at the Emmys, even that troll Jon Cryer. But while Donald Trump, Pam Anderson and Flavor Flav are still going to wake up everyday and make a career out being the same colorful [...]
You know I'm not going to pretend like I'm not going to watch this thing come September 19, but the most recent Charlie Sheen roast teaser is kind of on the nose, right? Watching Charlie gleefully plummet toward the earth astride a warhead is emotionally complicating my pure, unbridled desire to laugh at him. I guess it could be worse. Like, the televised version of his funeral worse.
I'm not positive the massive spike in the the #TrumpRoast record is the Situation choking like a hound dog on a chicken bone, but seems about right to me. It looks like the inclusion of the #TrumpRoast hash tag on the screen and in basically every promo worked for Comedy Central; with an average 6.5 tweets/minute, the number of tweets containing #TrumpRoast was around 35,000, and that's not even including my #MarleeMatlinIsMyGod Twitter bonanza. Useful for Comedy Central to chart its viewership, useful to viewers commiserate over how truly excellent Snoop Dogg was.
