Charlie Sheen Gets Roasted

It all goes down Sept. 19

(NEWSER) - Well, this is sure to be some combination of awkward and hilarious: Charlie Sheen will subject himself to a Comedy Central Roast. “You could say I've been providing kindling for this Roast for a while. It's time to light it up. It's going to be epic," predicts Sheen in the press release. Even better: New York reports that the skewering will air Sept. 19, which happens to be the same night Ashton Kutcher makes his debut on Two and a Half Men. More»

And the promos are just as funny

(NEWSER) - Warning: The promos for Comedy Central’s roast of David Hasselhoff might just be enough to make you like the troubled actor again. The Baywatch star and German music phenom was roasted Sunday night by Comedy Central regulars like Gilbert Gottfried, as well as newcomers like Jerry Springer and Hulk Hogan. A few zingers courtesy of E! :

• Seth MacFarlane: “He's multi-lingual. He can speak English, Spanish, German, and...whatever the fuck that language was in the cheeseburger video.”

Linda Evangelista wanted $46K a month, but some have paid more

(NEWSER) - We don't know how much child support Linda Evangelista is getting now that she's settled with babydaddy Francois-Henri Pinault , but we know that she wanted $46,000 a month. That sounds like a lot, but the AP finds five more celebrities who found themselves paying quite a bit—in some cases, more:

• Charlie Sheen: Had to pay $55,000 per month to Brooke Mueller for their twins, and Warner Bros. was ordered to garnish his wages in order to make sure it happened.

'He's creating a false class warfare,' says comedian

(NEWSER) - Last night on Piers Morgan’s show, Jon Lovitz made it clear he has no intention of backing down from his recent rant against President Obama . “Yes, I did mean what I said,” said Lovitz, referring to his comments that Obama’s claim that “the rich don't pay their taxes is fucking bullshit.” There is no “1% versus the 99%,” Lovitz said last night, according to Politico and Mediaite . “There’s nobody that’s wealthy saying, ‘Let’s go get the people that aren’t.’ … He’s creating a false class warfare.” More»

Calls him 'f***ing a**hole' on podcast

(NEWSER) - Breitbart TV 's latest reveal: Jon Lovitz is apparently no longer an Obama fan. The site highlights a clip from a recent Lovitz podcast in which the former Saturday Night Live star takes on the president for his plan to make the rich pay more taxes. "This whole thing with Obama saying the rich don't pay their taxes is fucking bullshit. And I voted for the guy, and I'm a Democrat. What a fucking asshole," says the comedian. "The rich don't pay their taxes? Let me tell you something, right. First they say to you, you're dead broke, 'The United States of America, you can do anything you want, go for it.' So then you go for it and then you make it, and everyone's like 'fuck you.'" More»