Comedy Central got served with its own roasting as the Parents Television Council (PTC), an organization whose goal is to "promote and restore responsibility to the entertainment industry,” complained to the network for placing an “unedited version” of its obscenity-laced Roast of Flavor Flav special on its website.

Flavor Flav, star of the reality dating show Flavor of Love, was the most recent roasted celebrity in Comedy Central's long-standing tradition where respected personalities are honored for their years of service to the entertainment industry and then ripped apart on national television.
While Comedy Central's website tells viewers to “Enjoy the Roast of Flavor Flav in all its uncensored glory,” the PTC described the roast as “overwhelmingly vulgar, filled with obscene language and racist and sexually explicit material.”

“Comedy Central has done an end run on parents by making this uncensored content available on its web site,” PTC president Tim Winter said in a prepared statement.  “Some cable industry executives say they are behaving responsibly, but this action proves that their words are meaningless.  It's an utter disgrace that this network would let children have access to this content. The industry's own solution – the V-chip - has been obviated by letting this type of content be easily accessible to children.”

According to Comedy Central, however, PTC was twisting the facts, describing it as pulling “out a nugget out of context to tell a story that serves their purpose.”

“Once again, the Parents Television Council is misrepresenting the facts to serve their own political agenda,” network spokesman Tony Fox said.  “Only six of which are uncensored. And those clips are clearly marked with a warning that says ‘mature content, viewer discretion advised.'”

Flavor Flav has already caught the attention of media watchdogs on several occasions in the past for his bold reality show Flavor of Love, which returns for yet another season.

Flavor of Love airs on VH1 and is produced by Cris Abrego, Mark Cronin and Ben Samek.


-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: multichannelnews.com
(Image courtesy of VH1)