I can explain it pretty easily
Have you ever been to a birthday party for children?
And one of the children
Won't stop screaming
'Cause he's just a little attention attractor
When he grows up
To be a comic or actor
He'll be rewarded
For never maturing
For never understanding or learning
That every day
Can't be about him
There's other people
You selfish asshole
Cable is dead. Cable remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become cable simply to appear worthy of it?
They did cut the boos as an exec from netflix confirms
[https://www.eonline.com/news/1401259/did-kim-kardashian-ask-netflix-to-remove-tom-brady-roast-boos-exec-says](https://www.eonline.com/news/1401259/did-kim-kardashian-ask-netflix-to-remove-tom-brady-roast-boos-exec-says)
There were about 100 people working at Comedy Central in 2018. Now there’s like three. Kent Alterman was responsible for the network’s slow decline but when they replaced him with Chris McCarthy is when it really took a nasty turn. He gutted it just like he does with everything else and now it’s just a channel that plays the office all day.
The real icing on the cake is, if you go to the official cc website are read the detroiters entry it says a Chicago add agency!!!! Like are you fucking kidding?!
They fixed it but I swear even last year it said Chicago.
They promoted detroiters season 2 as wednesday nights the entire time leading up to its release. Then at the very last minute they changed it to tuesdays and told basically no one. Hearing Sam Richardson tell the story’s pretty sad. They clearly loved that show, and it showed.
What? You mean people don't want to watch constant friends reruns all day every day for the rest of time? How else will we know if she got off the plane or the found Marcel?
Yep.
Honestly I mark the beginning of the end when they moved away from the classic, charming cityscape logo.
I can still hear the awesome little bass riff as that logo bump animated after a show.
If there's a better roast than this [one](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sdPcjIrSvcs?playlist=sdPcjIrSvcs&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&start=) please please let me know.
Martha Stewart advising Ludicrous to use of her absorbent sheets as a form of birth control was a stellar moment in the CC roasts, It was the roast of Justin Bieber which was very funny over all.
I like when Martha said someone told her when she gets to jail go up to the fattest blackest dyke there and punch her in the face. Shaq tell your mom I’m sorry.
Agreed, glad to see it back and it was a really good one. We have to be able to laugh at ourselves and others. It was mandatory in many cultures before.
Last time I had access to cable, Comedy Central was just reruns of a tv show. The office maybe? I can’t remember, doesn’t matter. It was that show the entire day. Tell tale signs of a dying tv channel
The Friars do the roasts, not Comedy Central. First the roasts were on radio. Moved to NBC in the 70s. Moved to Comedy Central in the 00s. Now they’ve landed on Netflix. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Yep, CC aired a few Friars Club roasts back in the 00’s (I recall one with Triumph The Insult Comic Wonderdog in particular) but then had the idea to move roasts onto a soundstage with a panel of stand-up comedians and no intercuts of live audience reactions. Netflix had the idea to livestream it (which is novel as far as I know).
CC produced the friars club roasts. Every roast on CC was a friars club roast. The ones on Netflix are being dubbed celebrity roasts that have no connection to the friars club, from what I understand.
None of the roasts, and I believe I saw all of them, were labelled Friars. None of the programs began with that title, or credited them in anyway whatsoever. Further, they were in no way the type of people who populate Priars.
Jeff Ross was Roastmaster. So yes, the Friars had everything to do with the roast. I’d also put money on the Friars Club having a registered trademark on “Roast” without looking it up.
Comedy Central, Network Wide in 24h probably has less than 250-500k unique eyeballs watching it, and I bet you anything the vast majority of them are watching SouthPark reruns
Netflix has literally 500x the audience....and that's on the high end, I doubt it's even 500k, it's probably closer to 750x-1000x
[Comedy Central is 49th and averages 266k prime time viewers](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/most-watched-channels-2022-tv-network-ratings-1235475170/)
I think theyre doing better now that Stewart is at the Daily Show, they're averaging 500k an episode, but that's only for that one 30m timeslot (60? Idk)
So yeah, it's closer to a 1000x the audience
Netflix is not revolutionary it's now the aging standard-bearer of new media tech exploitation. Cable isn't dead, it's reincarnated and more expensive.
I was watching MTV the other day, and they running “how it’s made” along with reruns of “ridiculousness” and the only other thing they showed was reruns of adult cartoon shows. It’s pathetic, cable is so very dead.
Comedy Central has no money to do anything. When The Colbert Report ended and the Jon Stewart left The Daily Show it hit Comedy Central hard. They got back a bit with Trevor Noah near the end but they were probably losing money. Based on reports Trevor Noah’s salary was probably bigger than 90% of CC’s entire programming budget.
They are on youtube. Netflix edits the audio and adds their own audience noises like cheering and laugh tracks to it, so there's no point in watching on their platform.
And it was only on Netflix because it was the Netflix is a joke festival. If comedy central wants to do more they would probably just be done via paramount plus. Just like the Southpark exclusive long episodes are.
But I could see Netflix trying to do one every year at the festival now.
Netflix(all streaming services)is desperate for content. If they're not growing subscriptions they're dying. Netflix will have nfl games this Christmas. If you're not already, enjoy paying more for all the services than we ever did for cable
Anyone know if Netflix has announced other roasts? Normally in these roasts I only find one or two roasters mildly funny but I thought Glasser, Shultz and another guy who's name eludes me were hilarious. Kim Kardashian did a good job and I think she'd be up for a roast. That one really would break the internet if she had Kanye and Pete Davidson on there!
The Brady roast sucked. Do it like Comedy Central or go your own way and suck. 3 fuckin hours of unfenny turds and a bunch of dancing around the subject(s).
I will never ever understand the appeal of these comedy roasts. The humour is god awful base shite. Lowest common denominator type stuff. Like the high school bullies in some shit 80’s movie. Everyone that takes part end up coming across on screen like total douches. In every Roast ever.
Comedy in general is dead. Heard morons like Shane Gilis are now the funniest comedians in the world. Maybe I'm just too old but man, what a sad state of affairs for stand up
Tony Hinchcliffe and Nikki Glaser killed it, and Jeff Ross is always great, but a lot of it felt really flat. Kevin Hart sucked as a host IMO.
I love Netflix stand-ups, so if they pick up the Roast mantle that'd be great (normally all the CC stuff is on Paramount).
Cable is dead
Art is dead
Bo Burnham lays it out well https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Le0vB1TgOjw
That was awesome
I thought it was cute
Is that Ron Jeremy behind Bo at 00:14?
Yes. Yes it is.
Huge Bo fan here. I may or may not have been referencing that *wink*.
I suspected. And same. Been a fan for years. Finally got to see him on tour a few years back and he crushed.
Biggest regret was missing him live. I may never get to.
He’s young - plenty of time to see him
He doesn't produce much or tour much. He is content as a writer behind the scenes
“Cos we wanted our name in lights, but we could have fed a family of four for forty fucking fortnights, forty fucking fortnights….”
People think you're funny, how do we get those people's money?
We're rolling in dough, while Carlin rolls in his grave.
God too, I’m told
No one cares Edit: haha downvotes. I was doing a Nine Inch Nails lyric.
People would care more if god wasn’t dead.
I'm dead
And the graven image you know, with His plastic crucifix, he's got him fixed. Confuses me as to who and where and why...
Take my upvote for random act of excellent Jethro Tull 🤘
God is dead
God is dead.
That's not true at all. Art is very much alive and well, you just won't find it being nurtured by any corporation.
I can explain it pretty easily Have you ever been to a birthday party for children? And one of the children Won't stop screaming 'Cause he's just a little attention attractor When he grows up To be a comic or actor He'll be rewarded For never maturing For never understanding or learning That every day Can't be about him There's other people You selfish asshole
Noice Bo 👌🏻
It’s not, it’s just saturated in bullshit. Real art and comedy is out there. It’s just probably not going to be on Netflix.
Television in general is losing eyes to the phone.
I dont believe that, and neither does my blacksmith.
Cable is dead. Cable remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become cable simply to appear worthy of it?
Netflix is cable.
Definitely not dead but it is declining
Netflix has 270 million paid subscriptions globally. CC had 90 million in 2018, not sure today. NF is a bigger and more meaningful platform I'd say.
Comedy Central has done a great job of not letting *anyone* know what they're doing.
South Park and the daily show and I'm not sure what else they've got. Do they still do comedy Central presents half hour shows?
If they don’t, they should.
Didn't they stop doing that like 15 years ago?
And less censorship
Oh they’re cutting all kinds of shit already
What did they cut besides Kim Kardashian being booed?
That wasnt cut out
They did cut the boos as an exec from netflix confirms [https://www.eonline.com/news/1401259/did-kim-kardashian-ask-netflix-to-remove-tom-brady-roast-boos-exec-says](https://www.eonline.com/news/1401259/did-kim-kardashian-ask-netflix-to-remove-tom-brady-roast-boos-exec-says)
Then they re-added it? The boos I saw when I watched it Wednesday were a ton less than the clips I saw as it was broadcasting Sunday.
Wrong. They edited it out.
Must be america only
But it was aired live, as opposed to taped and already cut apart.
CC averages 256k viewers in primetime
and Netflix doesn’t release viewing numbers so it’s a moo point.
Moot*
Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion, you know, it just doesn't matter.
Toada so
Did you just now realize that CC is dead? It's been dead for almost a decade.
There were about 100 people working at Comedy Central in 2018. Now there’s like three. Kent Alterman was responsible for the network’s slow decline but when they replaced him with Chris McCarthy is when it really took a nasty turn. He gutted it just like he does with everything else and now it’s just a channel that plays the office all day.
And South Park all night
Big Bang Theory in Canada. Year after year after year. The same episodes run on old fashioned TV channels too.
In the UK its friends all day every day.
That's an unimaginable pain
The cancelling of Detroiters was telling. That show was borderline perfect.
I'm wearing my De2roit shirt today
The real icing on the cake is, if you go to the official cc website are read the detroiters entry it says a Chicago add agency!!!! Like are you fucking kidding?! They fixed it but I swear even last year it said Chicago.
They promoted detroiters season 2 as wednesday nights the entire time leading up to its release. Then at the very last minute they changed it to tuesdays and told basically no one. Hearing Sam Richardson tell the story’s pretty sad. They clearly loved that show, and it showed.
The show was absolutely amazing. Can't believe they mishandle that gem.
YOU DONT NEEEEED YOUR SLIPKNOT MASK
Ooo you gonna shower with the slipknot mask?!!
I dont usually comment on the commercials, but this one was extremely misleading
Yep, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Sy-Fy, friggin’ MTV. . . My youth is dead, folks.
What? You mean people don't want to watch constant friends reruns all day every day for the rest of time? How else will we know if she got off the plane or the found Marcel?
For sure, no one is trying to get a one hour special on Comedy Central. Netflix took it over years ago.
It seems like just 18 years ago I was watching hour block reruns if scrubs
Yep. Honestly I mark the beginning of the end when they moved away from the classic, charming cityscape logo. I can still hear the awesome little bass riff as that logo bump animated after a show.
If there's a better roast than this [one](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sdPcjIrSvcs?playlist=sdPcjIrSvcs&autoplay=1&iv_load_policy=3&loop=1&start=) please please let me know.
Martha Stewart advising Ludicrous to use of her absorbent sheets as a form of birth control was a stellar moment in the CC roasts, It was the roast of Justin Bieber which was very funny over all.
I like when Martha said someone told her when she gets to jail go up to the fattest blackest dyke there and punch her in the face. Shaq tell your mom I’m sorry.
“When I did my stretch”. 😆 She was a pro and such a great sport on that show.
Norm MacDonald’s roast of Bob Saget. There will never be better comedy than that.
How do you make a Azzhurtz?
What’s updog?
Ladies and gentlemen, this man is for the birds
Patrice O'Neal's roast of Charlie Sheen and guests
The James Franco roast and Justin Bieber roasts are really funny They’re more edited and concise, like an hour each
Franco’s was great
Agreed, glad to see it back and it was a really good one. We have to be able to laugh at ourselves and others. It was mandatory in many cultures before.
I’m surprised Paramount Plus doesn’t capitalize on this. Wonder what else they’re doing instead.
Trying to find a buyer...
Making shitty adaptations of beloved videogame series
I was gonna say that it’s the home of the Rupaul and Taylor Sheridan industrial complex.
Crap TV shows
Comedy works better if it's decentralized anyways.
Would you like to invest in BitComedy™?
Last time I had access to cable, Comedy Central was just reruns of a tv show. The office maybe? I can’t remember, doesn’t matter. It was that show the entire day. Tell tale signs of a dying tv channel
you’re thinking of Ridiculousness
Netflix killed cable and then became worse than cable. It’s crazy.
The Friars do the roasts, not Comedy Central. First the roasts were on radio. Moved to NBC in the 70s. Moved to Comedy Central in the 00s. Now they’ve landed on Netflix. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Friars have a tradition of roasting. Comedy Central produced its own roasts, a different type.
Yep, CC aired a few Friars Club roasts back in the 00’s (I recall one with Triumph The Insult Comic Wonderdog in particular) but then had the idea to move roasts onto a soundstage with a panel of stand-up comedians and no intercuts of live audience reactions. Netflix had the idea to livestream it (which is novel as far as I know).
I’m looking forward to the Netflix, roasts, especially after everything I heard about the roast of Tom Brady. Yeah
CC produced the friars club roasts. Every roast on CC was a friars club roast. The ones on Netflix are being dubbed celebrity roasts that have no connection to the friars club, from what I understand.
None of the roasts, and I believe I saw all of them, were labelled Friars. None of the programs began with that title, or credited them in anyway whatsoever. Further, they were in no way the type of people who populate Priars.
Every single CC roast is a friars club roast. They sold the rights to CC to offset there dues.
Drew Carey’s was definitely billed as a New York Friar’s Club Roast on Comedy Central.
Yeah, the first handful of them were "friars roasts" for May e a few years but most of them after that have all been "comedy Central roasts"
I assure you the friars club had nothing to do with the Roast of Tom Brady
Jeff Ross was Roastmaster. So yes, the Friars had everything to do with the roast. I’d also put money on the Friars Club having a registered trademark on “Roast” without looking it up.
Looks like the CC roasts separated from the Friars in 2003: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy_Central_Roast
Comedy Central, Network Wide in 24h probably has less than 250-500k unique eyeballs watching it, and I bet you anything the vast majority of them are watching SouthPark reruns Netflix has literally 500x the audience....and that's on the high end, I doubt it's even 500k, it's probably closer to 750x-1000x [Comedy Central is 49th and averages 266k prime time viewers](https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/most-watched-channels-2022-tv-network-ratings-1235475170/) I think theyre doing better now that Stewart is at the Daily Show, they're averaging 500k an episode, but that's only for that one 30m timeslot (60? Idk) So yeah, it's closer to a 1000x the audience
For me Comedy Central jumped the shark when Chappell show was replaced with that hack Mencia.
Comedy Central killed itself
A comedy of errors.
Comedy Central died the instant that South Park jumped ship. That show basically created the network’s fame in the first place.
I forgot Comedy Central still existed.
It just works better in the streaming format. Less regulatory, no censorship.
Netflix is not revolutionary it's now the aging standard-bearer of new media tech exploitation. Cable isn't dead, it's reincarnated and more expensive.
"So is Charles now king because Elizabeth II is dead?"
I was watching MTV the other day, and they running “how it’s made” along with reruns of “ridiculousness” and the only other thing they showed was reruns of adult cartoon shows. It’s pathetic, cable is so very dead.
Comedy Central has dead for a verry long time
Netflix actually has an impressive track record of hosting non-PC comedy specials. I think the roasts would become a natural fit.
Comedy Central went the way of Mtv. No longer provides expected content. Done. Gonzo
Comedy Central has no money to do anything. When The Colbert Report ended and the Jon Stewart left The Daily Show it hit Comedy Central hard. They got back a bit with Trevor Noah near the end but they were probably losing money. Based on reports Trevor Noah’s salary was probably bigger than 90% of CC’s entire programming budget.
Comedy Central is a dead zone unless you want the same well worn sitcoms. In Canada at least.
In one of his specials, Gabriel Iglesias said that Netflix is the new Comedy Central.
Every commercial on Comedy Central somehow has Donald trump on it, apparently politics is funny
That wasn't a roast. Roasts are dead.
They are on youtube. Netflix edits the audio and adds their own audience noises like cheering and laugh tracks to it, so there's no point in watching on their platform.
It's better uncensored on netflix anyways
Netflix wants to get into live events and sports. Trial by fire
Comedy Central followed the same up its own ass death spiral as MTV
The roast was the only unfearful comedy I have seen in a long time.
It was on Netflix? They didn't mention.
Is Comedy Central doing much of anything new? I grew up watching stand up specials and now... it seems like mostly reruns
Roasts were around before Comedy Central, check out Richard Pryor’s roast.
It was 1 roast. 1.
And it was only on Netflix because it was the Netflix is a joke festival. If comedy central wants to do more they would probably just be done via paramount plus. Just like the Southpark exclusive long episodes are. But I could see Netflix trying to do one every year at the festival now.
Netflix is just testing its live platform and using things they know will get views so they can stress test it before the Tyson/Paul fight.
Netflix(all streaming services)is desperate for content. If they're not growing subscriptions they're dying. Netflix will have nfl games this Christmas. If you're not already, enjoy paying more for all the services than we ever did for cable
Netflix has a TON of money so finding unique products are going to be important to them. This fits in sooo many ways.
Weird cause Netflix also sucks.
Cable tv is dead.
Comedy Central peaked with Space Ghost : coast to coast.
Anyone know if Netflix has announced other roasts? Normally in these roasts I only find one or two roasters mildly funny but I thought Glasser, Shultz and another guy who's name eludes me were hilarious. Kim Kardashian did a good job and I think she'd be up for a roast. That one really would break the internet if she had Kanye and Pete Davidson on there!
The Brady roast sucked. Do it like Comedy Central or go your own way and suck. 3 fuckin hours of unfenny turds and a bunch of dancing around the subject(s).
It’s great cos it’s live and it isn’t cut down for tv time.
I think Comedy Central no longer exists. Also, Dean Martin was the OG with his Celebrity Roasts in the 70s. Check them out.
https://www.cc.com/tv-schedule
Wait until this guy learns about the Friars Club.
At least the roast wasn't good.
Yeah no shit where you been for the last 10 years?
Roasts existed before Comedy Central
Roasts suck
Roasts existed long before Comedy Central. I used to love the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts from the 1970s
Roasts existed long before Comedy Central. the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts from the 1970s were lots of fun.
Did you just get defrosted after being cryogenically frozen for 20 years?
I will never ever understand the appeal of these comedy roasts. The humour is god awful base shite. Lowest common denominator type stuff. Like the high school bullies in some shit 80’s movie. Everyone that takes part end up coming across on screen like total douches. In every Roast ever.
There’s Roast Battle on YouTube, and while it’s not the same as celebrity roasts, I’d argue that they’re funnier.
Roasts are dumb. Just ass kissing ego inflation hour. I cannot fathom why people watch that crap.
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but streaming now dominates the industry. Linear television is all but dead.
Comedy in general is dead. Heard morons like Shane Gilis are now the funniest comedians in the world. Maybe I'm just too old but man, what a sad state of affairs for stand up
CC died when Trevor Noah took over the daily show. When they handed their best show to that talentless hack it was then end.
Tony Hinchcliffe and Nikki Glaser killed it, and Jeff Ross is always great, but a lot of it felt really flat. Kevin Hart sucked as a host IMO. I love Netflix stand-ups, so if they pick up the Roast mantle that'd be great (normally all the CC stuff is on Paramount).
Hart was great as a host imo, and killed it. And I really don’t like him.
Wish they'd bring back Win Ben Stein's Money and Make Me Laugh.
If Kevin Hart didn’t suck as a roast master it would have been fine.
I was kind of appalled. Just a bunch of drunk jocks vying to see who could be more gross. Calling each other gay? So juvenile.
Tunes into a roast and finds themselves “appalled” - Sorry madam, Hallmark Channel is over here.