Justin Bieber

What Jokes Are Too Insensitive?

tim.graham — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 18:13:14 +0000

L. Brent Bozell III

Tim Graham

Comedy Central hosted another one of its vicious and disgusting celebrity “roasts” with Justin Bieber as the target. On the “pre-show” before the roast, unfunny comedian Jeffrey Ross arrived in a pope costume, accompanied by sexy “nuns” in black habits and fishnet stockings.

Red-carpet host Sarah Tiana introduced him as the “popemaster general” and gushed “you look amazing, you're going to be hilarious." To which Ross replied, "Bless you, Sarah, congratulations on all of your abortions."

Stars Joke About Bieber Abortion, ‘Dodging a Coat Hanger’ in Womb

dan.gainor — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 18:56:36 +0000

Comedy Central ‘roast’ guests treat life as a laugh line.

Katie Yoder

Some topics are off limits in comedy. Using abortion to poke fun at a woman’s fight to save her child should be one of them.

— Katie Yoder is Staff Writer, Joe and Betty Anderlik Fellow in Culture and Media at the Media Research Center. Follow Katie Yoder on Twitter.

Bieber Obsessed Nets Ignore NYT's Front Page IRS Scandal Scoop

geoff.dickens — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:42:40 +0000

Geoffrey Dickens

A Thursday front page New York Times story reported that Friends of Abe, a group made up of Hollywood conservatives like actors Gary Sinise and Kelsey Grammer, became the latest right-leaning group to be targeted by the IRS. Total Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network time spent on this story: zero seconds. However there was a celebrity news story the Big Three news networks did jump all over -- Justin Bieber getting arrested for drunk driving.

— Geoffrey Dickens is Deputy Research Director at the Media Research Center. Follow Geoffrey Dickens on Twitter.