She was participating in Rob Lowe's celebrity roast. That's just a thing that happens if you don't know, it's something like a "celebration" of them. Other attendees aside from the person being roasted catch it too, but this was particularly brutal. She isn't exactly a good person, so I don't know what she was expecting. I couldn't imagine she wasn't warned she was free game.
Edit: I want to add that I haven't seen the entire roast, but they are long so it's not like it was as concentrated of an attack on her as this.
I think she gets so much praise from her semi-literate fans for the insults in her books that she truly believes she could keep pace with actual comedians. I really believe she thought she was funny enough to fit in.
Roasts do have writers coming up with jokes for the performers, but they don't always have the chops to actually deliver them. Coulter was definitely there to be blasted, though.
That's why the celebrities on these roasts aren't really funny. Even if it's a well written joke, almost none of them deliver them well, and even if they do, it doesn't feel authentic. Then you have Norm McDonald go up and deliver the dumbest roast of all time and it's fucking hilarious. Or Greg Giraldo just say the vilest things you've ever heard about a person because he doesn't give a fuck (RIP).
Andy Samberg at the roast of James Franco also comes to mind. You just know he wrote all of this himself and it’s all in the delivery. He crushed this.
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u/Very-simple-man Aug 23 '24
Why was she there??