# NY Friar's Club Roast. What's it all about?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 26, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-friars-club-roast-whats-it-all-about/89687 "2001-10-26T01:33:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![1kBR\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/dc4da7/32.png) [@1kBR\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1kBR_Kid)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-friars-club-roast-whats-it-all-about/89687/1 "2001-10-26T01:33:59Z")

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I saw commercials for Rob Reiner’s roast but didn’t watch it. Hugh Hefner will be roasted on Nov. 4th. So…what is it all about? What is the Friar’s Club?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-friars-club-roast-whats-it-all-about/89687/2 "2001-10-26T01:43:27Z")

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A Friar’s Club Roast is an event at which some famous celebrity is honored by having a bunch of other famous celebrities insult him for two hours.

Here is the hideously ugly Friar’s Club Page:  
[http://www.friarsclub.org/index2.html](http://www.friarsclub.org/index2.html)

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**Author:** ![1kBR\_Kid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/dc4da7/32.png) [@1kBR\_Kid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1kBR_Kid)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ny-friars-club-roast-whats-it-all-about/89687/3 "2001-10-26T02:12:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by friedo \*  
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> Here is the hideously ugly Friar’s Club Page:  
> [http://www.friarsclub.org/index2.html](http://www.friarsclub.org/index2.html) \*\*

Ack! Maybe the TV show will be more funny.