Orange Homophobe Scores Big

I guess it's true what they say: everyone loves a pig roast!

Although I have to say, my pal Lisa Lampanelli rocked the roast, Jeffrey Ross was his usual great self, and I loved Marlee Matlin, Whitney Cummings, Gilbert Gottfried, Snoop Dogg and even Larry King. And who didn't enjoy seeing Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino bomb so badly?!

DONALD TRUMP IS RATINGS GOLD FOR COMEDY CENTRAL

SETTING RECORDS ACROSS MULTIPLE SCREENS AND LEADING COMEDY CENTRAL TO ITS

MOST-WATCHED TUESDAY PRIME AMONG TOTAL VIEWERS AND PERSONS 18-49 IN HISTORY

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Trump Roast Is Most-Watched Ever Among Men 18-24

And #1 In Prime Across All Of TV For The Night

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#1 In All TV Across All Key Demos In Its Timeslot

(Persons 18-49, Persons 18-34, Men 18-34 And Men18-24)

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#TrumpRoast And Top Roasters Trend Worldwide On Twitter On Tuesday Night

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Donald Trump and COMEDY CENTRAL were crowned kings of Tuesday night, March 15! The “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Donald Trump“ scored big with the viewers on-air and online. The Tuesday night premiere at 10:30 p.m. pulled in 3.5 million total viewers, 5.50 rating M18-24, making this special the #1 highest rated COMEDY CENTRAL Roast EVER and #1 in ALL TV in Prime among M18-34. The Roast along with Tosh.0 leads the network to the highest Tuesday Prime among total viewers and P18-49.

Ratings Performance

· “Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump” delivered 3.5 million Total Viewers and a 2.21 P18-49 rating, 4.27 M18-34 rating and 5.50 M18-24 rating.

· Historical – Most-watched COMEDY CENTRAL Roast ever with M18-24 and the 2^nd most-watched with M18-34, behind “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Flava Flav” in 2007.

· Timeslot – #1 in ALL TV in its timeslot (10:30 p.m.-midnight) across all key demos: P18-49, P18-34, M18-34 and M18-24. Among total viewers, “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Donald Trump” took the #1 spot in cable.

· Prime – “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Donald Trump” was the most-watched show in ALL TV with M18-24 and tied for #1 among M18-34 (“Tosh.0”).

· Best Tuesday Night COMEDY CENTRAL Prime – The channel averaged a 1.13 P18-49 rating and 1.8 million total viewers in its best Tuesday Prime ever ( 8 p.m.-11 p.m.). It was also the 2^nd most-watched Tuesday Prime ever among P18-34 (855k) and M18-34 (578k), behind 1/25/11.

Online Performance

· Overall yesterday there were over 43,000 mentions across the social web about the “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Donald Trump.

• The #trumproast hashtag was used over 27,000 times during the Tuesday broadcast.

• The “Fireside Chat Room With Jeff Ross,” the comedycentral.com LIVE streaming pre-show primed the pump, as mentions of “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast Of Donald Trump” and the #trumproast hashtag started to climb in the 9 p.m. hour and peaked in the 11 p.m. hour with 21,000 mentions. (the half-hour pre-show began at 9:30 p.m. EST)

Long Live the Queen!

This past Saturday night, just as HBO was unspooling her hilarious new comedy special Long Live the Queen, the self-proclaimed "lovable Queen of Mean" Lisa Lampanelli (in truth one of the nicest people in showbiz) was hosting a premiere party of her own, filled with friends and family, at New York's Friars' Club.

Frank and I were so happy to be invited to watch the special live, along with Lisa's mother, father, equally loud and funny sister Nancy, her brother and assorted other Lampanellii and Lampanelliites.

The special -- taped before a live audience in December in Santa Rosa, CA -- airs again on HBO on Feb. 3, 6, 9, 12, 16 and 18.

Click here to check HBO's web site for more info on Lisa and the special, as well as watch an outrageous clip.

The Women take Manhattan

As she introduced The Women last night at its New York premiere screening at the AMC Loews Theater at 19th St. & Broadway, the film's writer/director Diane English revealed that the film we were about to see had been 14 years in the making. That means that English first launched her dream project back in 1994, while in the midst of running her iconic sitcom, CBS' Murphy Brown.

The Women reunites English with Murphy star Candice Bergen -- and stars, as did the 1939 original film, a cadre of the hottest actresses of its day. Last night at the premiere -- which Frank and I attended courtesy of another hot woman with a meteoric career, comic Lisa Lampanelli -- we spotted many of the film's stars, including Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Ana Gasteyer and Debi Mazar.

Later, at the after party on the rooftop of the ultra-hip Gramercy Park hotel, we overheard Mazar talking about how she had first auditioned for the film over 8 years ago. And those fun lines she spouts as gossipy Saks Fifth Avenue salon manicurist Tanya, about encountering Madonna during her past life in Queens, come, at her suggestion to English, straight from Mazar's own life.

In fact, the film is full of fun touches -- including a scene stolen by Bette Midler as an updated version of the original film's "Countess" character; a winking reference to 1930s movies; and other fun moments with so many of my favorite stars like Cloris Leachman, Carrie Fisher and Debra Messing. And this is the most I've ever enjoyed both Annette Bening and Meg Ryan post-When Harry Met Sally. In fact, in moments during The Women, I felt like I could catch a glimpse of Sally again, which works perfectly here for Ryan's character of the wronged wife Mary Haines.

At some point last night, I learned that the critics had not been kind, which might be why Diane English seemed rather low-key. (Or, it could be that she preferred to talk to the likes of the film's producer Mick Jagger over me -- and who could blame her!) Personally, I really enjoyed the film. It differs in some major ways from the original -- and it may be sacrilege for a gay man to say this, but in most cases, I found the changes modern and refreshing.

Oh, and by the way, yes, I did just name drop Mick Jagger. This was one A-List event, which should say something about the film's status. At the screening, moguls like Clive Davis and designers Valentino and Dennis Basso sat among actors like Julia Stiles and Ben Shenkman and journalists Barbara Walters and Cindy Adams. At the party, Bette Midler turned up with daughter Sophie von Haselberg, Frank and I got to hang out with hilarious Jersey girl Karen Duffy aka "Duff," and Ms. Lampanelli got some much welcomed fan worship from Ms. Stiles, and from her two new apparent best friends, Crossing Jordan's Jill Hennessy and Law & Order's S. Epatha Merkerson.

The shnorrer that I am, I wondered why there were no gift bags on the way out -- especially because apparently last night's party sponsor, the makeup brand Nars, has re-created manicurist Tanya's favorite shade, "Jungle Red" -- in conjunction with the film. Oh well -- you can't have it all. Well you can, but maybe you shouldn't want it all -- at least that's what Meg's Mary Haines says in the end.

The Women

Opens today, September 12