Published 15:25 IST, March 11th 2021

Comedy Central to air 'Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments' with Nikki Glaser as host

The show will be airing for a week from March 29, 2021, to April 2, 2021. Read all the details about Comedy Central's 'Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments'.

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Comedy Central is hosting a special show revisiting some of its best roast moments from Comedy Central Roast.  show is titled Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments and will be hosted by American comedian Nikki Glaser. As name suggests, show will be a countdown focusing on 100 best moments of Comedy Central Roast.  programme will be telecasted on March 29, 2021, at 10.p.m EST.  special show will be airing for a whole week till April 2, 2021.

Some of roastees to be featured include Justin Beiber, Rob Lowe, Pamela Anderson, Joan Rivers, Alec Baldwin and many ors. teaser for programme was released on March 11, 2021. Comedy Central Roast special will have Ryan Moran and Melissa Casasvas as executive producers.

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special telecast will also feature Bob Drag Queen, Carly Aquili, James Davis, Jonathan Cheban, Luenell, Hear McDonald, Mark rmand, Jesus Trejo, Dulce Sloan, Diallo Riddle, Matw Broussard, Yamaneika Saunders, Brendan Schaub, and ors as guests who will be sharing ir inputs.

Comedy Central revisits its best roasts in Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments

What is 'Comedy Central Roast'?

Comedy Central Roast is a series that started off in 2003 on Comedy Central channel. While it isn't a regular series, a special episode airs every once or twice a year. One guest is invited who gets roasted by a panel of celebrity roasters. So far, seventeen roasts have been produced.

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In each episode, re is one roastee, a roastmaster, and about ten roasters. first roast that aired on Comedy Central featured Emmy-minated actor Denis Leary as roastee and Arrested Development actor Jeff Garlin as roastmaster. episode featured likes of Dr Dre, Michael J Fox, Christopher Walken, Conan O' Brien and many ors as roasters. episode aired on August 10, 2003. 

Roastees were allowed to set limitations on certain categories such as Joan Rivers refused to give permission for jokes on her daughter and William Shatner preferred that his wife's death t be mentioned in roast. Pamela Anderson requested to t makes jokes about her Hepatitis C infection and more. Many roastees did t set limits for ir roasters for example David Hasselhoff.  

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15:22 IST, March 11th 2021