# Next Comedy Central Roast: Charlie Sheen **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911 "2011-07-05T17:13:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/21 "2011-07-05T19:11:19Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > I’ve also read it’ll be on opposite Ashton Kutcher’s debut on Two and a Half Men. From the link in the OP: > [@](#): > > The episode will be taped in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 10, and will air on Monday September 19 at 10/9 C. > > “Two and a Half Men” also airs on Monday nights, but the two will not compete for viewers. Sheen’s former show airs at 9/8 C. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/22 "2011-07-05T19:34:37Z")
> [@](#): > > The episode will be taped in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 10, and will air on Monday September 19 at 10/9 C. It takes nine days to bleep it? ---
**Author:** ![beartato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9d8465/32.png) [@beartato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beartato)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/23 "2011-07-05T19:44:05Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > It takes nine days to bleep it? Might take that long for post-production to make him not look like a walking corpse, on the off chance he hasn’t actually become a real-life corpse by then. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/24 "2011-07-05T19:46:35Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > Might take that long for post-production to make him not look like a walking corpse, on the off chance he hasn’t actually become a real-life corpse by then. “Tonight the part of Charlie Sheen will be played by Geoff Peterson”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/25 "2011-07-05T19:49:46Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Speaking of Jon Stewart, has he ever been roasted? Because I’d like to see _that_. And has Colbert? That might be even better, in a “how meta can you get” way. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/26 "2011-07-05T20:27:27Z")
I don’t like the whole kicking him while he’s down vibe of roasting him while he has so many untreated issues. Not going to watch. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/27 "2011-07-05T20:46:08Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > And has Colbert? That might be even better, in a “how meta can you get” way. You know that whichever one of them they’ll roast, the other will be the MC. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/28 "2011-07-05T21:42:58Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Too easy of a target to be particularly funny. Plus the guy seems honestly mentally ill, which makes making fun of his antics less fun. Calling a normal person stupid can be funny, calling a retarded person stupid makes you an asshole. I see your POV, but, after dude so repeatedly and so publicly and so arrogantly **put it all out there**. . . He’s just gotta take what’s coming to him. Celebrity sometimes has its unexpected, unpredictable prices, and this is one of them. And, admit it, it is kinda hard to feel sorry even for a mentally ill person, if there’s many of us as would gladly change lives with him anyway. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/29 "2011-07-05T21:45:49Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I don’t think I could bear to watch that. What does it say about Charlie Sheen that he is participating in this? That he’s completely out of touch with reality? Of course, an alternative explanation might be that he had a moment of lucidity, followed by a moment of **“OMG what’ve I done?!”,** followed by a moment of “So how’m I gonna make a comeback without publicly apologizing to Whatshiscock and all,” followed by a shaft of light shining down and a choir of angels singing, **“Roast!”** ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/30 "2011-07-05T21:45:51Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > I don’t like the whole kicking him while he’s down vibe of roasting him while he has so many untreated issues. > > Not going to watch. How is it kicking him when he’s down when he agreed to do the Roast? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/31 "2011-07-05T21:56:45Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Did the little piggy cry, “Whee! Whee! Whee!” all the way home? No, but he cried, “Winning! Duh!” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/32 "2011-07-05T21:58:24Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > How is it kicking him when he’s down when he agreed to do the Roast? [shrug] I suppose, after recent events, one might doubt his mental capacity to make a decision in his own interest. But, if nobody can keep him from webcasting his rants, why should anyone try to stop him from appearing at a roast? ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/33 "2011-07-05T21:59:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > …“So how’m I gonna make a comeback without publicly apologizing to Whatshiscock and all,” followed by a shaft of light shining down and a choir of angels singing, **“Roast!”** Except that isn’t the tradition at these roasts things for everyone to get drunk, and isn’t that what usually makes him say his stupid things in the first place? ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/34 "2011-07-05T22:20:47Z")
The problem is it’ll suck. The guys who are really good at it really only bring their “square in the balls stuff” to someone not capable of fighting back. Most of Comedy Central’s roast are a couple obvious Jabs at the guest then they just go after the rest of the Roasting panel as they can hit back. It used to be a lot more directed at the roastee, but now its a few incidental Fat, bald, slutty, dumb, drunk jokes that could fit a million people. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/35 "2011-07-05T22:25:09Z")
I don’t know how much Sheen will be paid, but I know it’s not an honorarium or scale: it’s a ton of money. In the documentary about Joan Rivers she was debating whether to be roasted or not, saying that on one hand she didn’t want to sit through two hours of facelift and age and has-been jokes but on the other it paid many times more than any other single gig she had been offered in a long time. For Donald Trump they paid $2 million to some charity, but since that would be tax deductible it’s possible they paid more than usual. In any case, it’s probably at least in the high six figures and possibly over one- MILLLLLLION- dollars, so Sheen could well be doing this for the money. He doesn’t have it coming in by the truckload like he used to, after all, and he has a very expensive lifestyle. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/36 "2011-07-05T23:06:14Z")
Whenever I see the term “celebrity roast” I’m reminded of a bit from the National Lampoon about Alan King being roasted: > [@](#): > > Mr King, whose flesh resembles pork, is considered too greasy to fry and not important enough to bake. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/37 "2011-07-05T23:28:02Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > The problem is it’ll suck. The guys who are really good at it really only bring their “square in the balls stuff” to someone not capable of fighting back. 😕 Don’t Sheen qualify? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/38 "2011-07-05T23:35:18Z")
I wonder if they’ll bring “The Situation” back. His part of the Trump roast was so painful it was good. ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/39 "2011-07-06T07:11:56Z")
Who are they going to get to roast him, is what I wanna know? Who’s gonna kick a dog that’s down? Charlie is a MESS. It’s more sad than funny anymore…he does look like a walking corpse. Before this past year’s episode, I thought he was a relatively normal spoiled Hollywood addict/abuser. Now I feel that there is something much more going on. He’s sick in the head. Like Britney. After awhile, it’s just not fun anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911/40 "2011-07-06T07:28:22Z")
A little OT, but I enjoyed the Friar’s Roast back when they were shown as such. Of course, most of the people roasted back then have long passed. I loved Foster Brooks, and he completely “whooshed” me the first time he got up to speak. Back to your thread. Thanks Quasi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-comedy-central-roast-charlie-sheen/587911.md?page=1)