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dex14 07-10-13 08:44 AM
The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
This should be interesting...

Comedy Central will roast James Franco on Labor Day, the Viacom-owned network announced early Wednesday morning. But Franco-fans had known about it since late Tuesday, via Franco, via instagram. “Hey ya’ll wassup I’m gonna get roasted on Comedy Central be sure to check it out. They wanted me to tell you that — a’ight hahaha,” thespian James Franco mumbled at his legions of followers late Tuesday. Then he slowly ran his tongue over his teeth.

Comedy Central, in its announcement, said it would tape the roast of the “Academy-nominated actor-director-writer-producer-artist” next month in LA. And, in one of those incredible coincidences, the Franco-co-directed documentary about Franco, called Francophrenia, will debut exclusively on Comedy Central digital and VOD platforms immediately after the network telecasts the roast on Labor Day.

The Academy-nominated-actor-director-writer-producer-artist will attempt to topple the roast ratings record set by Charlie Sheen in 2011. Comedy Central timed that one to immediately follow the season debut of CBS’s Two and a Half Men in which Sheen’s character slipped on a Metro platform in Paris, fell in front of an oncoming train and exploded like “a balloon full of meat,” ending his tumultuous career with show creator Chuck Lorre. The roast attracted 6.4 million viewers – a record for the Viacom-owned Comedy Central franchise. The killing off of Sheen’s Charlie Harpe and replacement with eye-candy upgrade Ashton Kutcher, however, clocked 30 million — the biggest season debut crowd for any scripted programming on TV since 20005.

But it’s not just about ratings. Artistically, Franco will have to upstage Roseanne Barr — last year’s roastee — who famously capped off the evening by singing the last bits of the Star Spangled Banner to demonstrate she could sing the anthem and that when she’d botched it at a nationally broadcast baseball game in 1990 it was performance art.

DRG 07-10-13 09:13 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
I'm curious if they will get a few higher profile roasters in this one, like Seth Rogen and the other guys from This is the End. Franco is quite an oddball, but in a mild way. I'm a bit worried how that will translate to the roast format. He's done his share of batshit crazy stuff (invisible art, Brad Renfro switchblades), but those things are already self-contained punchlines... how do you expand upon them? I fear it will be an endless stream of 1) pothead jokes, 2) 'closeted gay' jokes, and 3) jokes about his Oscar hosting gig.

Groucho 07-10-13 09:14 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
As long as Ross and Schumer show up I really don't care who's getting roasted.

mcnabb 07-10-13 09:30 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 11759941)
As long as Ross and Schumer show up I really don't care who's getting roasted.
And Anthony Jesnelnick.

Finisher 07-10-13 10:41 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
This one could be promising. No doubt he'll have his buddies there.

sven 07-10-13 11:28 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Cool. Hopefully he brings the cast of Spring Breakers with him.....naked.

Axeramm 07-10-13 02:53 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Maybe they can get Spiderman to roast him.

PenguinJoe 07-11-13 09:07 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Interesting choice considering Franco stays out of the tabloids, the only thing to really make fun of him about is Your Highness and hosting the Oscars. Otherwise he's made some alright choices especially for being an ex child star.

Adam Tyner 07-11-13 09:25 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by PenguinJoe (Post 11761002)
Interesting choice considering Franco stays out of the tabloids, the only thing to really make fun of him about is Your Highness and hosting the Oscars.
He has a long history of weird, pretentious, eccentric behavior, although admittedly I don't think a lot of people know/care.

dex14 07-11-13 09:27 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by PenguinJoe (Post 11761002)
Interesting choice considering Franco stays out of the tabloids, the only thing to really make fun of him about is Your Highness and hosting the Oscars. Otherwise he's made some alright choices especially for being an ex child star.
He wasn't a child actor.

Charlie Goose 07-11-13 09:40 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 11759941)
As long as Ross and Schumer show up I really don't care who's getting roasted.
And Greg Giraldo.

Groucho 07-11-13 10:11 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 11761041)
And Greg Giraldo.
I'm guessing he won't make it. :(

Goat3001 07-11-13 10:22 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Kind of an odd choice since there isn't a whole lot to make fun of him about. I'm sure there will be a lot of closeted homo jokes because it's an easy one to make.

The good thing is that at least they can get his real friends up there to roast him. I imagine Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill will be there and they're actually comedic actors that will write their own material.

Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 11761041)
And Greg Giraldo.
:lol: ouch.

Michael Corvin 07-11-13 12:10 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
This...

Originally Posted by Groucho (Post 11759941)
As long as Ross and Schumer show up I really don't care who's getting roasted.
and this...

Originally Posted by mcnabb (Post 11759962)
And Anthony Jesnelnick.
and I'll be there.

Finisher 07-11-13 03:40 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Goat3001 (Post 11761116)
Kind of an odd choice since there isn't a whole lot to make fun of him about.
Disagree. Lots of material. Pot, pretty boy, all those college classes he took, million acting gigs, hosting the Oscars, famous buddies.

JasonF 07-11-13 06:29 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 11761041)
And Greg Giraldo.
-ohbfrank- Too soon.

PenguinJoe 07-11-13 08:57 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Adam Tyner (Post 11761020)
He has a long history of weird, pretentious, eccentric behavior, although admittedly I don't think a lot of people know/care.
This was maybe the weirdest thing he's done.

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Adam Tyner 07-11-13 09:38 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Sigh (Post 11761699)
I didn't know this about him. What's weird, pretentious, eccentric stuff has he done (genuinely curious)?
A lot of it's his oddball performance art projects. He wanted to be in the Twilight series as apparently part of that, he'd make "what? why?" stuff like a dramatic examination of Three's Company, there are all the higher learning controversies where he'd pal around with his professors and apparently avoid doing any actual work (and wasn't he attending something like 18 different universities at once?!), he made a S&M documentary, he made an erotic gay short based on Cruisin', he's sold invisible artwork, he played a character with the same name as himself on General Hospital at the peak of his popularity, he seems to be pretty into drag, he walked around Paris with a prosthetic dick on his nose for a video project...the list kinda keeps going on from there too.

PenguinJoe 07-12-13 02:04 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Adam Tyner (Post 11761896)
A lot of it's his oddball performance art projects. He wanted to be in the Twilight series as apparently part of that, he'd make "what? why?" stuff like a dramatic examination of Three's Company, there are all the higher learning controversies where he'd pal around with his professors and apparently avoid doing any actual work (and wasn't he attending something like 18 different universities at once?!), he made a S&M documentary, he made an erotic gay short based on Cruisin', he's sold invisible artwork, he played a character with the same name as himself on General Hospital at the peak of his popularity, he seems to be pretty into drag, he walked around Paris with a prosthetic dick on his nose for a video project...the list kinda keeps going on from there too.
I mean this seems like stuff an artist would do for attention, Johnny Depp's been known to dress in drag in the 90s and go to Hollywood parties, there's a weird story about Dustin Hoffman hanging out with trannies while he filmed Tootsie, like taking them to clubs and such. So Franco's stuff seems pretty run of the mill. For like a 40 year old accountant from Ohio it would be weird but for an Oscar nominated actor and artist maybe not.

mcnabb 07-12-13 05:57 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 11761041)
And Greg Giraldo.
The roasts have not been the same without him. He was always first up to roast and was great everytime as he had that perfect timing for this type of comedy format.

mike7162 07-13-13 04:37 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by mcnabb (Post 11762054)
The roasts have not been the same without him. He was always first up to roast and was great everytime as he had that perfect timing for this type of comedy format.
Yeah, he was the icebreaker and the tone setter
and his jokes were right on target.

RichC2 07-13-13 09:43 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Schumer needs to be on this one, tons of ammo.

Troy Stiffler 07-13-13 10:18 PM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by PenguinJoe (Post 11761873)
This was maybe the weirdest thing he's done.

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Wow. It's hard to tell that's James Franco. :lol:

;)

madcougar 07-16-13 05:53 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by Charlie Goose (Post 11761041)
And Greg Giraldo.
Zombie Greg Giraldo?

mcnabb 07-16-13 06:32 AM
re: The Comedy Central Roast of... James Franco (9/2/2013)
 
Originally Posted by madcougar (Post 11766117)
Zombie Greg Giraldo?
He'd still be funnier then Lisa Lampinelli or Andy Dick at these roasts.


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