Please tell me I’m not the only one who saw this tonight. Or that Cloris Leachman was great, Gilbert Gottfried rocked the house and Norm McDonald tanked.
if you missed it, well, it’ll probably be on ten more times tonight…
What’s the point of watching a juvenile exercise if profanity…if all the profanity is going to be bleeped out? At least Saget is somebody most of the roasters know. The Roast of Flava-Flav? Seriously?
I saw it. Leachman was hilarious.
I actually found McDonald’s routine to be even funnier, but I can recognize it’s not everyone’s kind of sense of humor.
-FrL-
Well, during his routine, the audience was deathly silent.
Dude, if you don’t phase out the bleeps by the second or third one, you need new medicines.
Wish I could find a clip. To my recollection, the audience started out quiet, but warmed to it as he went on.
The comedians themselves seemed to think it was really funny, which makes sense to me because really the jokes were jokes about jokes and who’s most likely to appreciate that?
But I could be remembering wrong. Wish I could find a clip.
-FrL-
National Lampoon had an excellent line about Roasts:
“Alan King was to be roasted…as he is too greasy to fry and not important enough to bake.”
What was the deal with Norm? His whole bit was so… perfunctory! Like a laborer working to the hour as some kind of half-assed protest.
I agree with FryLock. Norm’s routine was something only another comedian can truely appreciate. It was like bombing while being in perfect control of the audience.
For those who haven’t seen this yet, but want to know what the Norm McDonald fuss is about, here were some of his jokes:
[spoiler]
“Your face is like a flower. A cauliflower.”
“Susie Essman may be a vegetarian, but she’s still full of bologna in my book.”
“Bob takes vitamins A, B, C, D, E, F and G, but he still looks like H!”
“Bob’s never got anything on his mind. Except when he wears a hat.”[/spoiler]
It may all have been in the delivery… 
-FrL-
This morning I found a single reference on some obscure blog or something (I don’t even remember where it was unfortunately) to a story that McDonald was asked to tone it down for the Roast, and so wrote this routine as a kind of joking protest.
I don’t know if this story is true, but in the spirit of the Internets, I thought I’d relay it anyway.
(I actually hope it’s not true. It sort of explains the joke too much.)
-FrL-
I was really looking forward to it.
I was so disappointed. 
As stated above, Cloris Leachman was awesome. Stamos’ full face kiss with her was awesome.
Otherwise, it was a waste of an hour.
I’d like to see Norm, the rest I could take or leave.
A coworker this morning told me he thought Norm’s routine was a spoof of the shitty jokes from ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’.
Anybody know when/if it will aired uncensored late at night, like they did with other roasts?
Too bad Artie Lange missed it. Rehab sucks.
joe
Forgot who said it, but liked the joke; Whats the difference between Mary Kate and Ashley.
Forgot who said it, but liked the joke; Whats the difference between Mary Kate and Ashley.
Well…?
This makes some sense to me, as Norm was terribly unfunny. I know he’s a genius and there is some idea in his head about what he was doing, but I didn’t get it.
Mary Kate swallows.
ETA: I think the joke was actually someone asking Saget how he could tell them apart, and that was his reply (according to whoever was roasting).