The joke about Donald “letting himself go” wasn’t that funny to begin with but it’s clear Situation had no clue what the punchline meant or how to deliver it.
Lisa Lampanelli leads off the Donald Trump roast (very funny stuff)
Wow. No kidding. People just sat there. Did you see Ice T(or whoever he is) just shaking his head “no” while Situation-douche continued. Wow.
As Gilbert Gottfried said, “If they cremate him, is that the ‘Greg Geraldo roast?’”
Ah, Gilbert. Your death will probably produce more “too soon” jokes than any other celebrity.
I like how Matlin covered her ears while he was talking.
Finally saw it tonight.
First of all, the Situation did really, really badly. I actually turned my tv off for a bit during his act. I was embarrassed for him. But he was a good sport and laughed plenty at himself afterwards.
Second of all, the new guy who I know nothing about (the one they joked about replacing Giraldo) was fucking hilarious. He was easily the best one up, imo. Snoop was incredible and so was Matlin and Gottfried. Jeffrey Ross, who’s usually one of my favorites, seemed weak this time. He spent a little too much time licking Trump’s asshole at the end of his bit.
All in all it wasn’t as good as the Shatner and Flava Flav roasts (but really, nothing can compare with the Flav roast- it was perfect) but it was still worth watching.
I suspect more ‘Not soon enough’ jokes. >_>
The clip of all the other comedians mocking Situation is pretty funny, though. I agree that watching him is painful. I cringed the way I used to cringe while watching George Costanza back on Seinfeld.
From what I heard, whenever they do these roasts, the production company(I think its Dennis Leary’s) offers the celebrity guests writers to use and most are smart enough to use them but Sitch decided not to and instead went with his own material.
Also, keep in mind that they edited quite a lot out of the show. In reality it’s not an hour-and-a-half, it’s more like three hours, so the editors cut out the worst parts Sitch’s act so in reality it was even worse, which is why so many in the audience were booing him so loudly.
The Chevy Chase roast (incidentally, the last Friar’s Club roast to be aired before Comedy Central moved in with their own brand) compares, for one golden speech.
Wow.
I’m telling you, the roasts really were funnier back then. I remember reading an interview with Chase later that he really had to rethink his career after the roast. It blew him away with.
Wow, that was pretty incredible.
I notice Brian Regan never does these. I guess it is because his whole image is “nice guy” kind of stuff instead of “insult comic” kind of stuff.
Did George Carlin ever get roasted or roast anyone?
Where did you hear the part about him writing his own material? They sounded like written jokes…that he has no idea how to tell.
Chevy Chase’s was painful. And he sat for it before they paid a fortune. I don’t know how much the roastee makes but it’s a lot- on the Joan Rivers “A Year in the Life” documentary she said being roasted was by far her highest paid gig of the year and that’s the sole reason she agreed to it.
Interesting how much Chevy has either aged or stopped trying to look younger between then (2002) and Community. Part of it is a weight gain but he’s also let his hair go white, though actually I think he looks quite natural for his age (not bad, not great) now. My understanding is he had a deserved reputation as a monumental prick in his younger days (I think he even concedes this) but has mellowed a lot over the years.
Wait. That’s supposed to be funny? Where were the cunt jokes?
Zombie Alert!
OK, blowing the tanks on this one because of this interesting Huffpo article on what went on behind the scenes.
But if you’re not interested in reading, the upshot was that DT rewrote a lot of lines, and in general didn’t seem to have a good grasp on the concept of humor.
It should be no surprise that Trump has trouble with the concept of humor. Remember the Al Smith dinner last year? His “jokes” were basically cheap shots at Hillary and landed with a thud.
And here I was hoping there was another one, one where they were allowed to point out that Trump’s net worth is probably negative.
I read a quote from Chuck Todd recently, that he had never seen Trump laugh, and didn’t know of anyone he knew ever seeing Trump laugh.
FWIW.
That’s pretty weird, even for someone with both attention deficit and Asperger’s.