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Crossballs: The Debate Show
Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews. In each episode, comedians posing as experts on a particular subject would debate two real commentators. The true experts were unaware that the show was a sham. Topics ranged from reality television to religion to violence in video games. It debuted on July 6, 2004 and ran for eight weeks. It aired Tuesday-Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The twenty-third and final episode aired on August 24, 2004. Show number 24 was taped but never aired, after one of the unsuspecting guests, James March, threatened to sue Comedy Central.
Seasons
- Crossballs season 1 — 24 episodes (July 6, 2004)
Cast
- Mary Birdsong
- Paul Scheer
- Rich Fulcher
- Dannah Feinglass Phirman
- Andy Daly
- Matt Besser
- Janet Varney
- Brian Huskey
- Chris Tallman
- Jerry Minor
Details
- Created by
- Matt Besser
- First aired
- July 6, 2004
- Episodes
- 24
- Genres
- Comedy
- Network
- Comedy Central
- Status
- Ended
- TMDB score
- 10.0 / 10 from 2 votes
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