{"id":5886,"date":"2012-07-03T00:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5886"},"modified":"2012-07-03T00:46:21","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T04:46:21","slug":"transmissions-jane-lynch-tapped-as-roast-master-for-the-comedy-central-roast-of-roseanne-barr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5886","title":{"rendered":"Transmissions: Jane Lynch Tapped as Roast Master for the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COMEDY CENTRAL is pairing up two of America\u2019s fiercest comedians. The network <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Comedy-Central-Roast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5894\" title=\"Comedy Central Roast\" src=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Comedy-Central-Roast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>announced today that Jane Lynch will be the Roast Master for the upcoming \u201cCOMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Roseanne\u201d (#RoseanneRoast). The event will tape in Los Angeles on Saturday, August 4 and will premiere on COMEDY CENTRAL on Sunday, August 12 at 10:00 p.m. ET\/PT.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve long fantasized of ripping Roseanne Barr a new one. But because I don&#8217;t have the cajones to say anything offensive to her face, I will be hosting the proceedings,\u201d said Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCOMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Roseanne\u201d will be executive produced by Joel Gallen from Tenth Planet Productions, who also served as Executive Producer and Director of the COMEDY CENTRAL Roasts Of Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump, David Hasselhoff, Joan Rivers, Larry The Cable Guy, Bob Saget, Flavor-Flav, Pamela Anderson, as well as the Emmy-nominated \u201cCOMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of William Shatner.\u201d Jonas Larsen is the Executive in Charge for the network.<\/p>\n<p>Available on-air, online and on-the-go, COMEDY CENTRAL (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.cc.com<\/a>) is the #1 brand in comedy and is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned unit of Viacom Inc. For up-to-the-minute and archival press information and photographs visit COMEDY CENTRAL&#8217;s press Web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\/press\" target=\"_blank\">www.cc.com\/press<\/a> and follow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ComedyCentralPR\" target=\"_blank\">@ComedyCentralPR<\/a> for the latest in breaking news updates, behind-the-scenes information and photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMEDY CENTRAL is pairing up two of America\u2019s fiercest comedians. The network announced today that Jane Lynch will be the Roast Master for the upcoming \u201cCOMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Roseanne\u201d (#RoseanneRoast). The event will tape in Los Angeles on Saturday, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/?p=5886\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1931,1926,59,31,1927,1929,1928,1932,14,1925,1889,1930,1933,1924,41],"class_list":["post-5886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmissions","tag-bob-saget","tag-celebrity-roast","tag-charlie-sheen","tag-comedy","tag-comedy-central-roast","tag-david-hasselhoff","tag-donald-trump","tag-flavor-flav","tag-james","tag-jane-lynch","tag-joan-rivers","tag-larry-the-cable-guy","tag-pamela-anderson","tag-roseanne-barr","tag-william-shatner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5895,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5886\/revisions\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geekstronomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}