Last night, I made an attempt at watching Comedy Central's Bob Saget roast and then it dawned on me, I realized that I'm a closet masochist.
From what I understand, Bob Saget's famous pals in Hollywood were supposed to take the podium and lovingly make fun of him and his career. What actually happened was that a bunch of unfunny F-list comics roasted each other and repeated called Bob gay. This wasn't quite the side-splitter I was hoping for. Serves me right too--this is the same series that gave us endless you-so-black jokes on Flavor Flav the last time.
Honestly, I've been to a roast worse than this. Once there was a roast where Diddy (at the time he was "Puff Daddy") was supposed to be in the hot seat. The roasters seemed either at a lost for words or too afraid that Puff was going to take revenge on their careers to really get at him. If I remember correctly, the only one who really roasted Puff was Ed Lover. Even with that, I can't say that I remember any of the jokes.
Could you imagine what would happen if someone tried to pull off a roast in today's climate in Hip-Hop? I'd like to see a roast of M.O.P. personally. I'd even chip in the money to see someone put their life on the line to make totally raw and politically incorrect jokes about Billy and or Fame in front of at least a 200 people. I'm sure there would be countless obituaries the next day but watching those two transform into the "Incredible Rabid Rappers" in real time would make my bladder explode.
Oh well, back to reality.
-The Blackspot