Charlie Sheen on course for comedy clash with CBS bosses

Until recently, the troubled actor reportedly claimed to have high hopes that his bitter feud with the show’s creator Chuck Lorre could end with his return to the hit comedy series.

But the show’s producers have replaced him with Ashton Kutcher, while Sheen’s character will reportedly be killed off.

Now the former Spin City star has found a new way to continue to torment his former bosses at the CBS network – by agreeing to be the subject of Comedy Central’s next celebrity roast.

The Comedy Central show, in which a celebrity is mercilessly ribbed by assorted comedians and friends in front of a live audience, will be broadcast on 19 September – the same night that Kutcher makes his debut in the new season of Two And A Half Men.

Sheen, whose bizarre behaviour since being fired from the CBS show has made headline news, said he is looking forward to the ‘roasting’.

'You could say that I've been providing the kindling for a roast for a while,” the 45-year-old star said in a statement. “It's time to light it up. It's going to be epic.”