Roast of Justin Bieber
| Comedy Central Roast | |
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| Genre | Roast, comedy |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | 90 minutes |
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| Original network | Comedy Central |
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4:3 SDTV (2003–08) 16:9 HDTV (2009–present) |
| Original release | August 10, 2003 – present |
The Comedy Central Roasts are a series of annual celebrity roast specials that air on Comedy Central. The first official Comedy Central Roast premiered on August 10, 2003. The roasts have been produced at the rate of approximately one per year. There are 8-10 people invited who roast each other before finally roasting the Roastee and headline of each show. As of 2016, a total of 15 roasts have aired. Targets of roasts have tended to be actors (such as Pamela Anderson and James Franco) and comedians-turned-actors (such as Denis Leary and Joan Rivers), although they have also included musicians Flavor Flav and Justin Bieber, and public figure Donald Trump. The most recent roast was of Rob Lowe, which premiered on September 5, 2016.
Since 2010, Comedy Central affiliates outside the United States have occasionally produced their own roasts; eight such roasts have been produced in total.
Between 1998 and 2002, Comedy Central produced and televised the annual roasts of the New York Friars Club, which has been conducted since 1950.
After the original five-year agreement expired, the network began producing its own roasts in the same spirit. The first, featuring roastee Denis Leary (and produced by Leary's production company, Apostle), aired on August 10, 2003 and was the most watched program in the channel's history, excluding episodes of South Park.
Some roastees have stated that certain topics are off-limits. Pamela Anderson, for example, prohibited jokes about her Hepatitis C infection. Joan Rivers disallowed jokes about her daughter, Melissa and William Shatner asked that the death of his wife not be mentioned. Others, like David Hasselhoff, have imposed no limits on the topics.Donald Trump only prohibited anyone making jokes about him not being as wealthy as he says he is. Although Charlie Sheen initially agreed to no restrictions on his roast, he later said during an interview with Jay Leno that he requested jokes about his mother be edited out of the broadcast.
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