Comedy Central has announced its next victim to be roasted: Kid Rock. The Detroit-born musician — coming off an NAACP award and a headlining performance at Jazz Fest — will take his lumps on the dais when Comedy Central tapes the special this August. You can read the press release here, but I’ll warn you ahead of time: it’s so pointless that I couldn’t even find a worthwhile section to blockquote.
Although I generally enjoy the Comedy Central roasts, I’m bothered by the way they now just grab a celebrity we’ve all been making fun of for the last decade or two and let insult comics have their way with them. In ye olden days, the point of a roast was to make fun of a respected person — that’s what made it a unique honor. But now it’s just whatever dumbass makes a good punching bag. It’s like, okay, I’ll laugh at your jokes about Kid Rock’s dead midget friend, but I’m not gonna like it.
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Please please PLEASE let the ICP be involved with this.
next KSK Kommenter Draft should be: Celebrity You’d Most Want To See Roasted.
Roman Polanski anyone?
Kid Rock is basically living proof that the late 90s fucking blew.
Couldn’t agree more on the deterioration of the Roast. Also, Kid Rock always looks dirty. Seriously, the guy looks like he was just hastily awakened after passing out in a gutter.
How many jokes about his lack of chin? I predict 37.
Nothing Jeff Ross can say will ever shame Kid Rock more than the music on his albums. Just have a Kid Rock listening party but make sure the shotguns are safely locked away because people would be biting them some barrels.
Oh man. I’m still getting over the fact that they gave this guy (who fucks around with a Confederate flag despite being from Michigan) an NAACP award.
This is Kid Rock’s world and we are all just living in it.
/Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie
//I have no idea how to spell or pronounce that word and had to Google it
Ooh, let’s just roast Dane Cook and Fred Durst while we’re at it!
“I love America. I love Detroit, and I love black people,”
Those are the actual words this white trash jerk off said when he accepted his NAACP award.
*goes to visit Malcom X’s grave which is in the process of spinning*
Kid Rock is neither a kid, nor does he rock. Discuss.
Kid Rock is the Gwyneth Paltrow of rap.
@essequemodeia
Aw shit, that means he’s gonna be on Glee.
This is why Greg Geraldo’s death is such an immense tragedy, and why Rob Schneider’s continued existence is proof of an uncaring God..
Will there be meth and maddog 20/20 served? No wonder he’s showing up.
Kid Rock, you haven’t been relevant in a dozen years. BOOM! Roasted.
To steal one from Jeffrey Ross….
Greg Giraldo was supposed to perform at this, but he took the easy way out.
@Futter
I’ve heard variations of that one. Roger Eebert was such an asshole Gene Siskel had to die to get away from him.
By “roasting”, do they mean we get to burn this redneck dipshit at the stake? cuz I’d buy tickets for that.
/prepares polishing best pitchfork
Roast away. He should be an easy enough target.
So, does the New York Friar’s Club no longer exist? I seem to remember them starting this, then all the of the sudden it was Comedy Central Presents: A Reason To Have Ice T As A Stand-Up Comedian.
Seriously, I didn’t even know that guy was making “music” anymore. Why not try roasting someone famous and currently relevant?
Bitter, bitter people. He is a great singer, I like him.