The Situation

There's a pattern that people seem to be missing here. At every roast, someone has to bomb or do incredibly lame jokes. Or both really.

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To be fair about two of his jokes weren't disastrously bad (for example the one with Donald Trumps gold and Flavor Flavs teeth), but the silence from the audience made them even less funny.

Remember laughter is contagious, that's why they insert it in sitcoms.

Also here are some of his jokes they edited out:

“I’m not from New Jersey … I was born in Staten Island which is a New York borough … not to be confused with the burro Marlee Matlin bl*ws onstage in Tijuana … “
He continued, “Relax, she didn’t even hear it … I mean hey, at least her mouth is good for something right? Hey, that was definitely some great work Marlee … have you ever done anything else actually?”
Sitch ignored the boos and groans and continued …
“Larry King is rockin’ the Armani diaper … Seth MacFarlane is sporting Victoria’s Secret … panties. And Snoop is wearing a Louis Vuitton condom … nah, I’m just kidding, he don’t wear condoms, you know that!”
And it just didn’t stop …
“I like Larry King … he’s a playa … he actually wrote a book named ‘Mr. King Is Having a Heart Attack’ … he got that title from a hooker he was *beep*
One last parting shot for Trump:
“Trump is a good looking dude … if your eyes are like Marlee Matlin’s ears.”

They're offensive, but they aren't that bad.

yes, mike bombed like hell, BUT the questions is rather who is to blame than "what was he thinking". to me it rather looks like he does not recognise that he is fully exploited by the media, stuffing him into every single show possible, no matter how wrong he is actually in that position. i like him on jersey shore, but i did not enjoy any of his appearances outside of that show yet. the reason being that he simply is not a performer in that sense. anyway either he does not recognise how embarrassing his appearances outside of js are .... ooooor he simply does not care. most people do not even put that into consideration. if you have heard what kat williams said about the flavor flav roast he did, how comedy central plans this things Then you should be able to put this into perspective.

or to put it another way:

- comedy central choses the roast participants. they might not chose all of them, but they have the final say. they have chosen mike, who is clearly an abyssmal choice, so that one goes onto their account.
- comedy central provide some, if not all of the performers, at least partially with the material they are about to perform. even if we take in consideration that mike had written his material by himself, it is their obligation to check it and rehears it, to make sure it is worth performing.
- if they provided him with the material then they made another huuuuge mistake. it takes real masters of the craft to get away with material even remotely in the areas race, mysoginy .. etc. take louis ck for example. no matter how offensive the material, he has such a great charisma, that you instantly understand it as a joke. in the case of mike it was inevitable for him to fail.
- they cut the tv version in a way that the controversial jokes towards snoop dogg were cut out, but snoops angry response was kept. wtf? this makes snoop look like he was bashing mike on top of him bombing. why then not also cut out snoops response? i mean that is a bit like the old canibus vs ll cool jay beef strategy. check beef vol.03 if you don't know what i mean. anyway, either cut out the whole thing or let it both in.
- soooo, nobody was human enough to stop him from sinking , except for jeff ross? seriously? a room full of professional comedians and entertainers and NOBODY had enough brains to think to himself "... hmmm... that's an amateur standing up there, bombing like hell, who is just famous by accident, maybe i should better make an end to this...."?

comedy central has censored before and they will do it again, so why not heavily cut this one into shape before airing?

shameful. truly shameful.

- it was for frigging charity



"laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." - Dae-su Oh

"It was some of the best tv i've seen in years."
AGREED! HA! I laughed my ass off! God, he's such a douche. I wish the boos would make him go away from TV forever.

I had no idea what or who "The Situation" was until I watched this and I have to say...he was so painful to watch. But like a bad car accident, i just couldn't turn away. So bad, so very bad.

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You aren't wrong. That was genuinely painful to watch. I was physically cringing.

As much as I hate to say it, I actually felt sorry for him. I don't know whether he wrote his own material, or if it was just given to him to read, but either way, you'd think his agent would have looked over it first and told him how terrible it was.

On these roasts, professional comedians usually write the material for the non-material.

So either The Situation was a dumbass and told the producers that he was going to do his own stuff, or the comedian that wrote his material hated him and deliberately gave him extremely lame stuff.