Comedy Central says Justin Bieber will be the victim of its next roast.
The channel said on Tuesday that the pop star will face the music at a taping in Los Angeles on a still-unannounced air date.
In a posting on his Twitter account, Bieber said he’s long wanted to be roasted but was told by Comedy Central that he needed to provide more material — and he’s worked hard to do that, he said.
Among events that appear ripe for mockery: the egging of a neighbour’s house and the monkey he left in Germany.
Last weekend, Saturday Night Live took on his new Calvin Klein ad, with SNL cast member Kate McKinnon strutting as the underwear-clad, tattooed Bieber. Bieber hosted SNL himself in 2013.
“Justin has been asking us for a few years to roast him, and we just kept telling him to go create some source material first,” said Kent Alterman, president of content development and original programming for Comedy Central. “We’re thrilled he listened.”
Bieber seems like an unlikely choice for the Comedy Central roasts, which in the past have focused on industry veterans such as Roseanne Barr, Pamela Anderson, William Shatner and the late Joan Rivers. James Franco was the target in 2013 for the last roast.
But Bieber may be taking a page out of the playbook of Charlie Sheen, who used his roast in 2011 as a way to address his bad boy behaviour and start a fresh chapter of his career.
