Justin Bieber getting his own Comedy Central Roast
By RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com, filed January 20, 2015
The occasional Atlanta denizen and frequent pop culture punchline Justin Bieber is going to be the annual Comedy Central roast target this year, set to tape in March.
Bieber will be the youngest person ever to be roasted by the network at the tender age of 20. (It sure does seem like he's been part of our world forever, doesn't it?)
Ryan Seacrest broke the news yesterday with Kent Alterman, president of content development & original programming for Comedy Central, telling him: "Justin has been asking us for years to roast him so we kept telling him to create some more material and we're thrilled he listened."
And Bieber has provided ample material for the likes of Jeffrey Ross to chew on and spit out. You know, like urinating into buckets, egging houses, stealing a woman's phone, crashing an ATV into a minivan, battling Orlando Bloom, making racist jokes at age 14, and even wanting to become a pastor. Plus more here.
This roast could go on for hours!
Bieber seems to have a deep capacity for being mocked. On this past weekend's "Saturday Night Live," Kate McKinnon did a hilarious send-up of his Calvin Klein ads and he tweeted "well played. Lol" on his Twitter page. Or maybe he was just crying "owwie" inside.
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Rodney Ho writes about entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution including TV, radio, film, comedy and all things in between. A native New Yorker, he has covered education at The Virginian-Pilot, small business for The Wall Street Journal and a host of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, pop culture & seeing live events.
