Series

Crossballs: The Debate Show

2004 · 1 season · Comedy

IMDb

8.1

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.

Mary Birdsong

Paul Scheer

Rich Fulcher

Dannah Feinglass Phirman

Andy Daly

Matt Besser

Janet Varney

Brian Huskey

Chris Tallman

Jerry Minor

• Matt BesserProducer

First aired

July 6, 2004

Last aired

August 25, 2004

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

24

Genres

Comedy

• Crossballs season 124 episodes · 2004