John Stamos Named Roast Master

John Stamos Named Roast Master

The "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast of Bob Saget" to Tape on Sunday, August 3

Roasters Include Susie Essman, Greg Giraldo, Artie Lange, Tracy Morgan, Jeffrey Ross And Many More To Be Announced

"COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Bob Saget" Premieres On Sunday, August 17 At 10:00 p.m. ET/PT

NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Actor John Stamos is jumping into bed with COMEDY CENTRAL as Roast Master for this year's "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Bob Saget." The event tapes in Los Angeles at the Warner Brothers Studio lot on Sunday, August 3. The "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Bob Saget" will air on Sunday, August 17 at 10:00 p.m.

This year's Roasters include Susie Essman, Greg Giraldo, Artie Lange, Tracy Morgan, Jeffrey Ross, among many others to be announced.

The "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Bob Saget" will be executive produced by Joel Gallen from Tenth Planet Productions, who also executive produced and directed the "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Flavor-Flav," the Emmy-Nominated "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of William Shatner" and the "COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Pamela Anderson." Elizabeth Porter is the executive in charge for the network.

COMEDY CENTRAL, the only all-comedy network, currently is seen in more than 95 million homes nationwide. COMEDY CENTRAL is owned by, and is a registered trademark of, Comedy Partners, a wholly-owned division of Viacom Inc.'s (NYSE:VIA)(NYSE:and)(NYSE:VIA.B) MTV Networks. COMEDY CENTRAL's Internet address is www.comedycentral.com.

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