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Kevin Hart To Serve As Master of Comedy Central's #BieberRoast

MCN Staff — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:15:00 +0000

The little man who produces some big laughs will serve as the masters of ceremony for Comedy Central's roast of the Biebs.

Kevin Hart will be the roast master of Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, which will tape at Sony Studios on March 14 and premiere on the network on Monday, March 30 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT).

"I don't normally do roasts but I had to step out for my guy Biebs...It's his big 21. It's about to be operation roast everyone's ass," said Hart.

Comedy Central Readies to Roast Justin Bieber

MCN Staff — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 21:00:00 +0000

Comedy Central is prepping its next roastee: The Bieb.

The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber will tape in Los Angeles and a later date.

“Justin has been asking us for a few years to roast him, and we just kept telling him to go create more source material first. We’re thrilled he listened,” said Kent Alterman, president, content development and original programming at Comedy Central.

Comedy Central's past roast roster includes Rosanne Barr, Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump and James Franco.