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My colleague on the West Coast, freelance comedy journalist Julie Seabaugh, has turned many late Tuesday nights at The Comedy Store into a brand-new book documenting the rise of Roast Battle from open mic experiment in the Belly Room to Comedy Central TV series and countless official and unofficial versions …
Please excuse the following comedians from Montreal’s Just For Laughs this week, as they’ll be too busy doing battle in Los Angeles for Season 3 of Comedy Central’s Roast Battle: Todd Barry, Pat Barker, Nicole Becannon, Matthew Broussard, Keith Carey, Kim Congdon, Alex Duong, Joe Eurell, Olivia Grace, Tony Hinchcliffe, Jerron …
This is a special edition of Last Things First, recorded live during Clusterfest 2018 in San Francisco. Comedy Central was kind enough to ask me to host a series of Clusterfest panels for the media that they called fireside chats. In this session, I welcomed the Roastmaster himself, Jeff Ross, …
Speaking of Roast Battle… Comedy Central finally announced a renewal for season three of Roast Battle, which debuted as a live and tape-delayed tournament at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival in 2016, followed quickly by a second season filmed in Hollywood. It’ll get six new episodes with a new tournament …
What happens when a Roast Battle vet auditions for America’s Got Talent, but doesn’t tell the audience or the judges that he’s going to roast them for his audition? Watch and see what happened when Alex Hooper did just that on Tuesday night’s episode on NBC. “Oh! That was just …
From door guy at The Comedy Store to winner of Roast Battle II, congrats to Frank Castillo. Castillo prevailed over Matthew Broussard in the live finale broadcast Sunday night on Comedy Central from the old House of Blues venue — reconfigured into a battle arena for Jeff Ross Presents Roast …
Roast Battle II begins a four-night run tonight, with new episodes at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Thursday-Sunday, following the action as 16 stand-up comedians roast each other in front of celebrity judges until only one reigns supreme live on Sunday night on Comedy Central. I could’ve sworn that I heard Jeffrey …
Seriously, though. I’ve only covered one Comedy Central Roast live in person, and that happened to be the 2011 Roast of Donald Trump, since he insisted it take place in Manhattan, instead of Southern California, where Comedy Central usually toasts its roast victims. Trump was a lousy guest of honor, …
While you’ve been enjoying the “Regionals” coverage of Roast Battles Sunday nights on Comedy Central, the series has announced the 16 stand-up comedians still in the running for the Roast Battle II title. Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle II will tape the head-to-head competitions with celebrity judges across the street …
Wondering what to look forward to in the first three months of 2017 from Comedy Central? Wonder no more, as the network just announced its scheduling plans. Of course, the stand-up specials in the can or coming soon don’t have release dates just yet, but most everything else does. The …
