Bob Saget is being roasted on Comedy Central on Sunday August 17th, 2008 - and you kind of have to think that Comedy Central is running out of ideas for these Roasts.

No disrespect to Saget intended, but seriously - the original idea for a “Roast” was for a group of friends to gather around and give one of their buddies hell for an evening. It was honor through insulting with affection. What Comedy Central is doing is hiring 3rd rate comedians to make fun of former television stars…and that’s just not entertaining in my book..

Take a look at this clip of what you can expect…

I think that kind of sums it up. Bob is sitting there being a good sport and “laughing” along with it - but seriously, there’s something very sad about this. Bob Saget is still a viable name on television - he’s hosting 1 vs. 100, narrating “How I Met Your Mother” and doing stand up.

Doing nothing but mocking his work on “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos” is uncreative, and frankly - lazy. “Full House” was a great, influential show, to its target audience at the time it first aired. “America’s Funniest Home Videos” is something its easy to mock…but this little thing called “YouTube” confirms that there is a global audience for this kind of entertainment and one could argue that AFHV helped bring that to the world. (for better or worse).

Still, what I find the most upsetting is Bob’s own comments about the special. According to the New York Post the comedians on the show crossed the line a few times by making suggestive and sexual references to the Olsen Twins. When asked about it, Saget said,“Anybody who talks about my TV kids—:that upsets me the most…I am very protective. I love them very, very much.”

The article continues to reference all the dirty jokes at the Olsen’s expense, and goes on to quote Gilbert Gottfried as saying “they deserve it” (for unspecified reasons) and that they will have to just “go home and cry in their billions of dollars”.

After seeing samples of the show, and hearing a few of the Olsen related jokes, I won’t be watching the special. I hope you don’t either.