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Vanessa Bayer Roasts Her Brother’s Band United Nations If you’re a fan of Vanessa Bayer’s ongoing Above Average series Sound Advice, her recent appearance before a United Nations show – the band […]
By Megh Wright
Watch Nick Offerman Roast Politicians and Time Warner “Don’t worry, I’m being paid significantly less than Jill Abramson to do this job.”
By E. Alex Jung
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Apr. 8, 2014
Watch Chris Christie Get Very Touchy While Joy Behar Roasts Him The New Jersey governor is trying to have a sense of humor, but it’s tough.
By Joe Coscarelli
Sarah Silverman on the Nasty Ageist Jokes from the Franco Roast
Sarah Silverman was W. Kamau Bell’s guest on Totally Biased last night, and the conversation quickly turned to jokes made about her at the […]
By Elise Czajkowski
Bill Hader Says James Franco Had Never Seen a Roast Before His Own Roast On Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, Bill Hader was discussing Monday night’s Comedy Central’s James Franco roast and said that Franco had never […]
By Bradford Evans
Would You Want to Be Roasted? Asking Bill Hader, Paul Scheer, Pete Holmes, […] With last night’s James Franco roast falling more in the tradition of classic roasts, we at Splitsider feel there’s reason to be optimistic […]
By Elise Czajkowski
Videolist: Highlights from Comedy Central’s James Franco Roast Last night, Comedy Central aired their Roast of James Franco. Taped a week earlier in Los Angeles, the event featured comedians and actors Seth […]
By Bradford Evans
Comedy Central Made a Boxing Video Game for the James Franco Roast Leading up to Monday’s Roast of James Franco, Comedy Central has debuted a new online video game called Comedy Central’s Franco Roast Fight […]
By Bradford Evans
Natasha Leggero Roasted Jay Leno on ‘The Tonight Show’ Last Night
Standup Natasha Leggero is on the dais for Monday’s Comedy Central Roast of James Franco, and she went on The Tonight Show last night to […]
By Bradford Evans
Watch Some Clips from Monday’s James Franco Roast
Comedy Central’s roast of James Franco is set to air Monday at 10, and the network just released three clips from the event, which taped […]
By Bradford Evans
Here’s What Happened at the James Franco Roast Although it won’t be airing until Monday, September 2nd, Comedy Central held its Roast of James Franco last night in Los Angeles. Aziz Ansari, […]
By Bradford Evans
Andy Samberg and Aziz Ansari Will Also Be Roasting James Franco The list of comedians performing at Comedy Central’s upcoming Roast of James Franco keeps getting more and more impressive. Andy Samberg and […]
By Bradford Evans
Bill Hader, Jonah Hill, and More to Roast James Franco Comedy Central announced the first batch of comedians who will be performing at the network’s upcoming roast of James Franco. Bill Hader, Jonah […]
By Bradford Evans
Watch a Promo for Comedy Central’s Roast of James Franco
Comedy Central is set to have a classier Roast victim this year: Oscar nominee James Franco. Here’s the first promo for the roast, which will […]
By Bradford Evans
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July 10, 2013
By Margaret Lyons
James Franco Will Be Roasted by Comedy Central James Franco announced via Instagram video last night that he’ll be the subject of Comedy Central’s next roast. The network confirmed the news […]
By Bradford Evans
Inside the Friars Club Gala for Don Rickles with Louis CK, Lewis Black, […] In the classic 1966 Esquire piece Frank Sinatra Has a Cold, Sinatra and his crew visit The Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas to see “a baldheaded […]
By Elise Czajkowski
Johnny Carson Gets Roasted by the Biggest Stars of 1968 The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. […]
By Ramsey Ess
Jeff Ross and Sarah Silverman Bond Over Their Shared Loves of Insults and […] The Burn with Jeff RossGet More: Jokes,Jokes of the Day,Funny Jokes
Here’s a clip from Jeff Ross’s new Comedy Central show, The Burn, in which […]
By Adam Frucci
Some Samples Before Next Weekend’s Roast
Roast of Roseanne
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Those are some good zings. There is one Ross zing, however, that […]
By Jesse David Fox
Comedy Central Names Its Final Roseanne Roasters; Gives One Roaster an […] Comedy Central has added to the list of Roseanne roasters they released earlier this week. Are you ready? First, Gilbert Gottfried: OK, that […]
By Jesse David Fox
Talking to Anthony Jeselnik About His Upcoming Comedy Central Show, […] Comedy Central must have a ton of confidence in Anthony Jeselnik, because the network has given him a new show with a premiere date and […]
By Phil Davidson
Here Are Your Roseanne Roasters As is the case with their roasts, Comedy Central has assembled a rag tag group of comedians, celebrities, and “celebrities” to roast Roseanne. […]
By Jesse David Fox
Jane Lynch to Handle Roastmaster Duties for Roseanne I always wonder two things when I hear about an upcoming Comedy Central roast: how mean will it be, and is the roastee really on board for it? […]
By Adam Frucci
Orson Welles: An Object of Fun
DISCARD ORSON WELLES reads my copy of Joseph McBride’s Orson Welles. It’s an ex-library copy, and the librarian, in her zeal to decommission […]
By Josh Lieberman
Comedy Central Greenlights More Programming That Sounds So Good You’ll Pee […] Comedy Central has picked up three awesome-sounding series, including a weekly roast show starring Roastmaster General Jeffrey Ross to premiere […]
By Hallie Cantor
Listen To This Patrice O’Neal Interview From 10/11 Patrice O’Neal was interviewed on the podcast A Shot of Yager a few weeks before his recent stroke, talking about his frustrations with the […]
By Hallie Cantor
The Zinger And The Warlock King: The Roast Of Charlie Sheen The most interesting part about watching the Charlie Sheen roast, which aired last nigh, is that Charlie Sheen isn’t crazy anymore. Well, not […]
By Halle Kiefer
Charlie Sheen Drags President Bartlett Down With Him
Charlie Sheen finally managed to rope Martin Sheen into his twisted, delusional headspace, Apocalypse Now fantasies and all. Gotta say, I feel […]
By Hallie Cantor
Jon Lovitz, Patrice O’Neal, and Amy Schumer Join the Dark Chaos of the […] Venerated comedy icons Mike Tyson and Steve-O will be joined on the Charlie Sheen Roast dais by Jon Lovitz, Patrice O’Neal, and Amy Schumer. […]
By Hallie Cantor
Mike Tyson and Steve-O to Bring Dignity to the Charlie Sheen Roast The lineup of roasters for the upcoming Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen has been announced, and it’s as ridiculous as you’d expect. […]
By Adam Frucci
Charlie Sheen Roast Teaser Is a Little Too Real
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 […]
By Halle Kiefer
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Aug. 18, 2011
Roast Is for Charlie Sheen’s Own Good “I see this as a comedy intervention.”
By Caroine Bankoff
Your Charlie Sheen Roastmaster: Seth MacFarlane 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 […]
By Adam Frucci
Lord, Save Us: The Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen Is Coming Comedy Central recently cancelled their planned roast of Kid Rock, but it looks like they’ve landed a bigger, sadder fish to replace him: […]
By Adam Frucci
The Roast: A History 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 […]
By Hallie Cantor
Comedy Central Cancels the Roast of Kid Rock Comedy Central had announced last month that it was set to roast Kid Rock later this summer, but apparently that isn’t happening now. That Kid […]
By Adam Frucci
Kid Rock Up Next In The Comedy Central Roast Parade Get your incest jokes in front of an audience now before Jeffrey Ross uses them all: Kid Rock’s Comedy Central Roast is filming Sunday, August […]
By Halle Kiefer
Snoop Dogg Does The Damn Thing At Comedy Central’s Trump Roast
The Roast of Donald Trump
March 15 10:30/9:30c
Preview - Snoop Dogg - The White House
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By Halle Kiefer
The Good Wife Sticks It to Aaron Sorkin and The Social Network Obnoxious and arrogant fast-talk! Former drug problems! Feuds with blog commenters!
By Amanda Dobbins
Aaron Sorkin to Take His Lumps, Cameo on 30 Rock The creator of ‘Studio 60’ will probably have to hear some ‘Studio 60’ jokes.
By Willa Paskin
Comedy Central to Roast Donald Trump In March, Comedy Central is set to tape a roast of the bewigged Donald Trump, who seems as fitting a target for roasting as anyone. Says […]
By Adam Frucci
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June 30, 2010
By Jessica Pressler
‘It’s Zuckerman’s Steak’ Inside the kitchen at The Four Seasons: a hilarious spoof.
By Daniel Maurer
Swim Naked at The Four Seasons for $5,000 And other lessons learned at last night’s roast.
By Ben Leventhal
