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The opening monologue Seth Meyers delivered on Saturday night’s NFL Honors was everything you wished it could be and more, as Meyers roasted all of the league’s stars, Commissioner Roger Goodell, and the Super Bowl combatants: The New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. If you’re a sports fan, you …
Justin Bieber turns 21 on March 1, and what music superstar idol turned rapscallion and ne’er-do-well wouldn’t want to be given a dose of comeuppance by famous funny people? That’s the idea behind Comedy Central’s announcement this week that Bieber will star as the next victim of its celebrity roasts. …
Just when you thought you’d heard the latest weird entertainment headline involving James Franco this summer, Franco himself announced another news-making decision last night — via non-looping, lazy Instagram selfie video. He’s going to be the subject, toast and victim of this year’s Comedy Central Roast! “Hey, y’all, what’s up? …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… The Friars Club announced it will roast Jack Black in 2013. The 2013 Friars Club Roast will take place on April 5, 2013, in New York City. Over Thanksgiving weekend, “Never Not Funny” and Jimmy Pardo raised more than $108,000 during the fourth annual …
When Jeffrey Ross describes Jeff Ross Roasts America — which debuts tonight on Comedy Central — as a special, he and the cable network mean it. This hour (42 minutes minus the ads) isn’t your standard-issue stand-up headlining set, but rather, a travelogue, road trip and customized roast-a-thon, with celebrities …
Comedy Central taped its annual roast over the weekend — in 2012, the “target” or “victim” is Roseanne. The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne will air at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, but the cable channel already has put up a few video highlights for you to …
Comedy Central has announced the preliminary roster of comedians and celebrities who’ll line up on the dais for the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne this coming weekend. The roast tapes Aug. 4, and will debut on the cable network on Aug. 12, 2012. Your comedian roasters are, unsurprisingy, “The Roastmaster” …
After roasting celebrity tabloid fodder-seekers such as Charlie Sheen and Donald Trump, Comedy Central is going back to comedians for its 2012 Roast, announcing it’ll air a Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr on Aug. 12, 2012. And it already has a Twitter hashtag: #RoseanneRoast. No announcement yet on who’ll …
Proving he’s still captured the American public’s fascination, Charlie Sheen’s absence on his CBS sitcom and reappearance on a Comedy Central roast propelled both series to draw record numbers of TV viewers on Monday night. The ninth season premiere for Two and Half Men attracted 27.76 million viewers overall in “live plus …
Comedy Central really wants you to interact with its Roast of Charlie Sheen tonight, so much so that it has constructed a customized online dashboard encouraging you to Tweet and encouraging a competition among the roasters to see who’s the most popular of them all. They’ve also posted several video …
