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BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

During the roast of Charlie Sheen on Comedy Central on Monday night Sheen said, “I had my own television show… and I did the one thing everyone in America wishes they could do: I told my boss to [eff] off.”

But according to Christian Post, Sheen says he is done with “winning,” and he feels he has already won.

In sports terms, at times the roast was “winning ugly.” According to Digital Spy, Private Practice actress Kate Walsh said, "You know it's amazing despite all those years of abusing your lungs, your kidney, your liver… the only thing you've had removed is your kids."

Comic Jeffrey Ross offered, "Charlie, you're the black sheep of a family that produced three 'Mighty Ducks' movies."

Amy Schumer commented, "You are similar to Bruce Willis. You know, you were big in the '80s and now your old slot's being packed with Ashton Kutcher."

At times the taste of the show got questionable. Host Seth McFarlane joked, "'On Two and a Half Men,' they are having Charlie's pretend funeral. There is no need to switch over, just wait a few months and you can possibly see the real thing."

On Monday, CBS killed off Sheen’s character Charlie Harper in the season premiere of "Two and a Half Men," Harper being hit by a subway train in Paris.

McFarlane later made a reference to the obituary of the late Amy Winehouse, saying, "I only had to change three things: the sex of the deceased, the location of the body and the part that says, 'a talent that will be missed'."

Ross got kind of rough, saying, "Charlie, if you're winning, this must not be a child custody hearing. Only time your kids get to see you is in re-runs. Don’t you want to live to see their first 12 steps?"

Lucas High of tvgeekarmy.com called the show a bust. He said it was a series of variations on four jokes: Sheen loves drugs, he loves hookers, he loves beating up his wives, and Charlie Sheen hasn't made a decent movie since "Platoon."

The majority of viewers disagreed with High. The International Business Times reports the Sheen roast drew a record 6.4 million viewers, the highest number in the cable network’s series of roasts. The program was also the second most-watched show in Comedy Central’s history, after a 2008 holiday special by ventriloquist-comic Jeff Dunham.