I’ve never seen an episode of The Jersey Shore and the only thing I know about Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is he shows his abs a lot, but damn! I felt bad for him. Jeff Ross deserves some medals for public service and charity for rescuing him.
And Marlee Matlin is great at stand-up- who knew?
I thought Trump was a generally good sport. The jokes about his wives and of course his hair got old and were I him I think I’d have hit Gilbert Gottfried for the joke about his daughter.
Basically he can’t time a joke to save his life (Marlee Matlin wasn’t just better but worlds better). He clearly didn’t write his own material because it was obvious he didn’t even know what the punchlines meant on a couple of them and he screwed them up. The audience started booing about a minute into his set and Jeff Ross actually came up and asked them to give a chance and ended up showing his own stomach calling himself “The Saturation” as a sort of charitable way to take attention away from Sorrentino’s bombing.
I’m in deadline mode so I only got a chance to watch the first part. All I can say is that if CC runs the Flavor Flav Roast again, watch that instead. It’s the difference between crisp and soggy.
I only saw a bit near the end, so I missed the Situational bomb but got to hear a couple of the other comedians make fun of him for it. Are there any clips on the CC website?
I watched the first half, and had most of the second half on the TeeVee, but muted. I was laughing my ass off. I thought Snoop was particularly funny, when I didn’t have much faith that he would be.
I’ll have to see if I can catch the parts I sort of missed.
Sort of. He said that for all Trump has done to the NYC skyline they should “stop calling him ‘The Donald’ and start calling him ‘The 20th Hijacker’!” He got both laughs and boos and Jeff Ross yelled out “Too soon!”
Someone did, but I don’t think it was Gottfried. I might be wrong–all the jokes started to run together after awhile. The joke was something along the lines of calling Trump “the second worst disaster to ever hit New York.”
Watching The Situation was just painful. I’m the opposite of a fan, but I really felt uncomfortable watching that. I was embarrassed *for *him!
I thought the host (blanking on his name…Family Guy guy) was absolutely hilarious.
I admire anybody who has enough toughness to put themselves up for a beating like that–that goes for everyone on the panel as well as Trump.
On preview: Sampiro remembered the Gottfried joke. That’s much more direct than the one I mentioned.
I thought the harshest- and one of the funniest- line was directed at Snoop when the new guy, Anthony Jesselrik (?sp) said of the nine person panel:
“Our panel consists of a pimp, a murderer, an ex-con, a drug dealer- and eight white guys.”
Also liked Lisa Lampanelli’s joke about Larry King:
“He’s what we call in show business a triple threat, meaning he can have a stroke, a heart attack, or shit his pants at any time.”
The funniest part was Marlee Matlin giving the deaf signs for people on the panel. Though whoever asked Russell Simmons if Marlee was going to be on Def Comedy Jam was pretty funny.
From the past roasts I’ve seen they usually get a lot of insult comedians to do their thing and then have some other celebrity guests who typically have someone else write their jokes and they deliver them. Apparently “Sitch” didn’t get this message as the jokes were so awful they were either written by him or one of his housemates.
My favorite was Snoop pimping Trump for president saying it wouldn’t be the first time Trump forced a black person out of their home.
New guy was the best, now that I’ve seen the rest. And he worked clean, although you probably wouldn’t notice until after since the jokes were so nasty.
Marlee Matlin and Gilbert Gottfried should always work together. In fact, the first time I saw her interpreter next to her in a long shot, I thought he *was *Gilbert Gottfried. Anybody else see a resemblance?
As much as I detest Palin, I thought that joke was mean, in poor taste, and completely uncalled for and completely crossed a line.
And it made me really mad that I laughed my ass off.