Entertainment hourly.
It's probably not a huge surprise, but Joan Rivers's roast on Comedy Central last weekend "drew 2.8 million viewers, 32% fewer than for the previous one on the cabler." I know I didn't tune in for that one. Did you? I did, however, greatly enjoy the Comedy Central roasts of Denis Leary and Bob Saget, and obviously the success of these things depends on how interested audiences are in seeing a Read more
What do you get when a raunchy, dirty, frequently inappropriate TV event meets one of the raunchiest, dirtiest, most inappropriate comedians of a generation? Awesomeness — and a stomach that aches with pain from too much laughter. And that's why I'm not-so-secretly looking forward to tonight's roast of Bob Saget on Comedy Central. If you haven't heard yet, Bob Saget is a major dirty perv of a Read more
So I thought it was strange enough when Comedy Central announced that Flava Flav would be the "honoree" at this year's celebrity roast. What made him deserving: his status as a clock-wearing hype man, or his recent turn as the bachelor star of TV's weirdest dating show? (Granted, this is the network that once roasted Pamela Anderson, so I'm not really looking for logic.) But today, Comedy Central Read more
Get ready for the return of "warlock" and "winning" jokes: Comedy Central will roast Charlie Sheen on September 16. To boot, the special just happens to fall on the same date as Ashton Kutcher's first episode of Two and a Half Men. The ruthless roasters should have no problem ripping Sheen to shreds, and the actor himself seems to agree. He said, "You could say I've been providing kindling for Read more
