Normally at Mediaite, our friends, the Panel Nerds, handle all things panel-related, but it seems like once every year there’s a story from the Television Critics Association panels that’s just too good for us to miss out on. Last year the panels (in which television critics get to ask questions of all the big executives, producers, showrunners, and stars from the various networks) gave us the hilarious story of Oprah Winfrey’s epic, 18 minute-long answer to a single question. This year we’ve got the amazing accounts from the 2 Broke Girls panel which numerous critics are calling “the most uncomfortable in recent memory.”

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More proof that it’s August and Shark Week may no longer be enough to hold our attention during the dog days: The Friars Club decided to Roast David Hasselhoff. That’s a pretty low-hanging roast, as it were. Said host Seth MacFarlane: “How can you embarrass a man who so thoroughly embarrasses himself?” Yes, well.

A few weeks ago, Comedy Central televised a roast of Joan Rivers, hosted by Kathy Griffin and featuring a whole host of foul-mouthed comics cracking jokes about Joan’s various facelifts, how old she is, and how old her vagina is. One of those foul-mouthed comics was Donald Trump, a.k.a. her new boss after Rivers was [...]