Tonight, America will be riveted by the first U.S. Presidential debate of 2016. In a campaign season that has contained all the absurd drama of reality TV, the 56-year-old television tradition will provide voters the clearest and most sober presentation of the candidates and their views. It has tremendous potential to shape the choices we make November 8.
Hilary Clinton is the more experienced orator, but our perception of Donald Trump as a candidate could be shaped by another television institution in which he was on stage while facing opponents who cast aspersions upon him: The Roast of Donald Trump.
First popularized by Dean Martin in the 1970s, the celebrity roast mocks iconic performers and was initially designed as TV’s way of saying: We love you enough to put you through this. Now an annual Comedy Central tradition, in 2011 its subject was a businessman and reality star who is now...
Hilary Clinton is the more experienced orator, but our perception of Donald Trump as a candidate could be shaped by another television institution in which he was on stage while facing opponents who cast aspersions upon him: The Roast of Donald Trump.
First popularized by Dean Martin in the 1970s, the celebrity roast mocks iconic performers and was initially designed as TV’s way of saying: We love you enough to put you through this. Now an annual Comedy Central tradition, in 2011 its subject was a businessman and reality star who is now...
- 9/26/2016
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Two years ago, Seth MacFarlane hosted the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump and started the evening's raunchy proceedings with, "How do you prepare for a night like this? Personally, I smoked a lot of pot and clearly don't give a sh-t about this show. So I'm kind of the perfect host for this show, or for the Oscars."
It was a dig at actor James Franco, who — with bleary eyes and a too-laidback attitude — had co-hosted the Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway just two weeks before. Two years later MacFarlane will be up on that Oscar stage trying to do a better job.
Best known for creating — and voicing many of the characters on — Fox TV's funny, crude, animated sit-com "Family Guy", MacFarlane is also an actor, singer, and, as of last year, a big-screen writer and director. His first live-action feature, Ted, hit theatres in June 2012 with Mark Wahlberg...
It was a dig at actor James Franco, who — with bleary eyes and a too-laidback attitude — had co-hosted the Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway just two weeks before. Two years later MacFarlane will be up on that Oscar stage trying to do a better job.
Best known for creating — and voicing many of the characters on — Fox TV's funny, crude, animated sit-com "Family Guy", MacFarlane is also an actor, singer, and, as of last year, a big-screen writer and director. His first live-action feature, Ted, hit theatres in June 2012 with Mark Wahlberg...
- 2/5/2013
- by Marni Weisz - Editor, Cineplex Magazine
- Cineplex
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