Remember when "Celebrity Roast" meant Dean Martin sipping a cocktail while Don Rickles made mafia jokes about Frank Sinatra? Well, now it means Lisa Lampanelli making cringe-inducing jokes about Chris Brown beating Rihanna in the name of saluting Larry the Cable Guy.
Yes, Larry the Cable Guy. The man who earns millions making Southerners look like backward morons is being honored tonight by Comedy Central. (And if you're questioning the Roast-worthiness of Larry, consider that Larry stars in an upcoming animated series on Comedy Central.)
These Comedy Central Roasts are brutal. They're vulgar, mean, politically incorrect -- and sometimes pretty funny.
So if you want to spend an hour or so tonight laughing at jokes you know you probably shouldn't be laughing at, tune in at 10pm. And don't worry -- there will be enough belittling redneck jokes to choke that drunken pet hog you keep there in the dining room. But that's okay, Larry brought it on himself (and on the rest of us).
If you miss it tonight, they'll rerun it for weeks. But make no mistake - this isn't family viewing. When they say "viewer discretion is advised," they mean it.
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Ugh
Mon, 03/16/2009 - 12:14 — Jen1978I'm sorry, but I absolutely cannot stand Larry the Cable Guy. He's not Southern, went to private school and is basically mocking all the people who think he's so hilarious. Which, he isn't. At all.
It kills me to think he and Dane Cook enjoy the success and celebrity they do while thousands of comedians who don't suck never make it off the club circuit.
I agree
Mon, 03/16/2009 - 13:02 — brookecain (author)We are definitely on the same page on this one. He basically makes fun of poor, uneducated, unsophisticated people, and for some reason, those very same people LOVE him for it. And overall, I think it makes ALL southerners look bad. Most people who aren't from here already through we were a bunc hof Jethros and Ellie Mays, fishin' down at the cement pond. Now they just have a more modern model for us -- thanks to both Jeff Foxworthy and Larry.