Looking at demos, Franco fared far better - though here, too, he was no match for Sheen. And, in Roseanne’s defense, her Comedy Central bashing had aired at the same time NBC was clocking 30 million viewers with the Closing Ceremony of the London Olympics.īut, Comedy Central will note, it’s not in the total-viewer game. The Franco roast premiere also did not match the 3.5 million who’d tuned in for Comedy Central’s David Hasselhoff roast in 2010 or the 3.48 million who caught the Donald Trump roast in 2011. If you add in Comedy Central’s two replays of the Franco bashing/lovefest last night, during which he took a lot of heat for his epic Oscar sleep-hosting, the cume climbs to 5.2 million - still not up to Sheen’s premiere stats. But Franco wasn’t in the same league as Sheen, who’d clocked 6.4 million viewers when Comedy Central skewered him the same night CBS unveiled Sheen’s Two And A Half Men replacement, Ashton Kutcher.

Yes, Franco’s roast is up double digits compared to last year’s Roseanne roast, like Comedy Central said this afternoon - including the not-surprising 64% lift among 18-34 guys and the even less surprising 88% spike among 18-24 guys. James Franco: “This is truly my punishment for the Oscars.About 3.1 million people watched the Comedy Central Roast Of James Franco last night - 2.4 million of them being adults 18-49, and 1.9 million in 18-34, with 1.2 million of that group being guys. Is that why the rest of you guys are so aggressively fat and dirty? You think if you read one book and take a shower, dicks are just gonna fly into your face?” Apparently if you’re clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you’re super gay now. Natasha Leggero: “Jonah Hill was born and raised in Hollywood, and you can tell – he’s a name-dropper with big tits and an eating disorder.”Īziz Ansari: “Wow, so many gay jokes about James Franco tonight. I think he literally can’t open his eyes enough to see who he’s fucking.” Silverman: “I don’t think James Franco is necessarily gay or straight. Sarah Silverman: “Right before the show Seth Rogen rolled a gigantic fatty, because that was the only way we could get Jonah Hill onto the stage.” He has his own philosophy on this: one for them, five for nobody.”

Hill: “You know how you always hear George Clooney and other big movie stars saying, ‘My philosophy for making movies is: one for them and one for me.’ But not my guy James. I mean, fuck her for trying, like, at all!” Everyone was saying James was dead up there! But I think that was Anne Hathaway’s fault. Jonah Hill: “Everyone is gonna make fun of James Franco for the Oscars, it’s obvious. Kroll: “Just remember, if anyone bombs here tonight, they’re just doing an impression of James Franco at the Oscars.”

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