Roasting Hoff on Comedy Central

Roasting Hoff on Comedy Central

With some rare and notable exceptions, Hollywood/television stars/personalities tend to be or become prime, air-headed, insipid examples of what human beings can devolve into when elevated to the rank of the idolized or even to the level of the personalitized.

They also become, among other things, masochists.

The truly-sloshed, burger-eating, daughter-berated, grossly-disgusting David Hasselhoff, who is far from an idol except in Germany, went YouTube-viral when daughter Taylor Ann decided to make public her video of dear old dad drunkenly slobbering and dripping burger on the side of the family pool a few years ago.

Taylor Ann, who probably had the good, intereventionist intention to embarass her father into going on the wagon, was in attendance last night when “Comedy Central” chose Dad to be the subject of a roast. That video was cited by virtually every roaster.

Now, I’m no prude and I’ve seen televised roasts before on the somewhat more civilized broadcast channels, Last night was my first viewing of a cable channel roast and I discovered that cable channel roasts were markedly different.

I subscribe by default to “Comedy Central” but usually confine myself to the occasional “South Park” episode and more recently to the 35 year old, German born, Daniel Tosh who hosts the totally irreverent “Tosh O.”

The roast of David Hasselhoff, to me at least, was in a class of its own, or a classless class of its own. . .
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