Overcooked: Is Netflix Ruining the Comic Art of Roasting? | Guest Column

Before I dive into this story, allow me to quantify that I love comedian Jeff Ross and I appreciate that Netflix's comedy arm has singlehandedly made standup specials mainstream again. But the "supersize me" approach to their recent "The Roast of Kevin Hart" was sad and not very funny. I don't know who I felt more pain for between roast icon Ross - who even as a writer and executive producer had to know the format he had inherited from the great roast masters of the past was now a mess - or the horrible and awkward cutaways to Pete Davidson fake smiling or Chelsea Handler . . .