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The Charlie Sheen roast: Five people we'd like to see participate
5 Jul 2011, 5:09 pm

As announced via press release today and reported via the Washington Post's TV Column, Comedy Central will broadcast a roast of Charlie Sheen on Sept. 19 at 10 p.m., after CBS's much heralded return of "Two and a Half Men" sans Sheen.

This is an in­cred­ibly smart programming move on Comedy Central's part and one that will inevitably steal some buzz away from Ashton Kutcher and co. both before and after the debut of the new "Men." (The roast will take place on Sept. 10, so presumably many of the best jokes will leak online in advance of its airing.) It's also an excuse to suggest that Charlie Sheen is again "winning," a catch phrase we haven't used for at least a month because Sheen did not appear to be doing anything close to that.