Comedy Central Roasts

[Guy Gardener]

However, the untelevised Dean Martin roasts, and Shriner club Roasts from the olden days were fucking disgusting I've been told.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

However, the untelevised Dean Martin roasts, and Shriner club Roasts from the olden days were fucking disgusting I've been told.

Probably more "blue" than what we saw, but crass & mean spirited?

Phyllis Diller on Lucille Ball (Dean Martin Roast):

Well I couldn't wait to get her because Lucy is my kind of girl. We're both cut from the same mold, thing is I'm moldier.
Lucy had some career. When Lucy was making pictures at MGM, everytime a big part came up they'd say, Louis B. Mayer would say this, "Let's get that good-looking redhead." And they did, Van Johnson.
When I first came to Hollywood I could have had big parts too, but I was allergic to silicon. My bra was so small it had to be put on by a jeweler. Of course now I wear a padded bra, it's got so much rubber in it, last night I threw it on the dresser and it bounced out the window.
But Lucy's got her problems too, now I happen to know that she wants to dye her hair back to its original color, but she can't remember it.
All my life I have tried to look like Lucy. I even use the same beauty cream Lucy uses but nothing works. You know that ugly skin on your elbows? My whole body looks like that.

 

[Trekker4747]

Watching them is like having all of the hairs on my balls and taint pulled out one-by-one with a rusty pair of tweezers with a jagged edge.

I "get" the idea of a roast being that it's to lampoon and give the honoree a hard time. But I don't think it has to be constantly, senselessly, and overly vulgar like the CC Roasts are, nor do I think the panel of roasters are supposed to be roasted on as much as (or more than) the honoree.

 

[Guy Gardener]

No, they all get roasted. It's the protocol. Roasting everyone pads out their material and shows the roastee that they're being completely picked on by some one that can't take a moment in the hot seat too.

Jeff Ross must be doing something right, since he's finally gotten his own weekly roast show just like John Stewart.

 

[Random_Spock]

I watched the one with Roseanne.

It was pretty good, especially when Tom Arnold showed up.

I watched most of that one. Laughed quite a bit during it .