NEW YORK: Pop sensation Justin Bieber, the subject of some unflattering headlines in recent years, suffered the slings and arrows of fellow entertainers, from Kevin Hart to Martha Stewart, as they skewered his looks, music and public antics during a celebrity roast broadcast on Monday.

Comedy Central’s “Roast of Justin Bieber,” hosted by Hart, got off to an edgy start, with Hart joking that most of superstar’s Bieber’s fans “are either in middle schools, or standing at least 500 feet away from one.”

Hart was also joined by Natasha Leggero, Pete Davidson, Shaquille O’Neal, Snoop Dogg, roast veteran Jeff Ross, Chris D’Elia and Ludacris in lambasting Bieber, 21, over a two-hour special taped in Los Angeles earlier this month.

In keeping with the long tradition of celebrity roasts, off color, politically incorrect and borderline offensive jokes were the order of the day, mining everything from the Sept. 11 attacks to the Holocaust for humor. The N-word was in wide use.

Snoop Dogg referenced another Bieber headline-making escapade involving the singer’s pet monkey. “That monkey was more embarrassed than the one that started the AIDS epidemic,” the rapper joked.

The roasters targeted each other as much as they did Bieber, with cracks about Hart’s diminutive stature, O’Neal’s weight and appetite and the advancing ages of Stewart, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg, as well as Stewart’s prison record.

But they saved their sharpest barbs for Bieber.