COMEDY CENTRAL announced today that comedian Kathy Griffin has been tapped as Roast Master for this year’s COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Joan Rivers. The event tapes in Los Angeles at CBS Studios – Radford on Sunday, July 26. The COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Joan Rivers airs on Sunday, August 9 at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT.
In honor of one of comedy’s most trailblazing female performers, comedy icon Joan Rivers, COMEDY CENTRAL is making network history with its first-ever female pairing of Roastee and Roast Master.
“It will be my distinct pleasure to honor a true comedy legend,” says Kathy Griffin. “Let’s just say it will be an evening of highs and lows. I will be roasting Joan with more gentleness and tenderness than her latest chemical peel and, on the other hand, I will give her a verbal pap smear and god only knows what I’m going to find down there.”
