Rob Lowe On Comedy Central Roasts: The Meaner, The Better

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Rob Lowe says he is a fan of Comedy Central celebrity roasts. We’ll have to see if that still holds true when it’s his turn in the guest of honor’s chair later this month at The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe. He told Entertainment Tonight, “I love those roasts. They make me laugh. Look, maybe there’s something wrong with me, but the meaner they are, the more I like it, and the people who can take it, are my heroes.” Okay, hero.

As for subject matter, Rob Lowe says “It’s totally open season.” And he claims that’s the fun of being part of a Comedy Central Roast. In saying that nothing is off limits, it makes you wonder if Rob Lowe is forgetting that he was involved in one of the country’s first sex tape scandals. In 1988 in Atlanta, at the height of his Brat Pack fame, Lowe was videotaped having sex with a 16 year old (totally legal for the age of consent in Georgia) while he was in town for the Democratic National Convention. The sex tape went up for sale and also included Rob Lowe and a buddy tag teaming an American model in Paris. This was almost 30 years ago, but you know it’s going to be part of that vicious walk down memory lane on roast night.

The Entertainment Tonight piece (watch below) on Rob Lowe also inferred that some of his fellow Brat Packers might be included on the dais for Comedy Central. People that will be in the audience for moral support are Rob Lowe’s wife Sheryl and his two sons Matthew and John Owen, which is part of his roast strategy. Lowe thinks that if his wife and boys are there, the roasters will take it easier on him. Doubtful.

Meanwhile back at Comedy Central, they’ve released a new promo that totally takes us back to the 80s and heartthrob Rob Lowe’s days of being featured in Tiger Beat magazine. It includes David Spade, the official host for the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe, really, REALLY pondering his roast subject. And it’s all set to the theme song from Rob Lowe’s 1985 movie, “St. Elmo’s Fire”. (Also, watch below)

Lowe is talking tough at the moment and that could be because his roast is still a ways off. It tapes in Los Angeles on August 27th and then airs on Comedy Central on Labor Day, September 5th at 10pm. In the immortal words of Rob Lowe’s St. Elmo’s Fire character Billy, “We’re all going through this. It’s our time at the edge.” Whatever the hell that means?

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Ernie Tripper
Ernie Tripper