# Who is least "roast-worthy"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 5, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922 "2011-07-05T18:51:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/1 "2011-07-05T18:51:53Z")
The Charlie Sheen Roast thread got me wondering: who (alive or dead) would make the least effective celebrity roast meat? I think I would be bored and underwhelmed with: Mr. Rogers Wally Cox Joyce Brothers Walter Cronkite Edwin Newman Jimmy Carter Helen Hayes Please don’t tell me any of these were actually roasted! ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/2 "2011-07-05T18:57:30Z")
Jimmy Carter would be good. Didn’t he get attacked by an amphibious rabbit? I’ll go with Alan Greenspan for boring. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/3 "2011-07-05T19:04:13Z")
I’d be down for roasting Alan Greenspan - “irrational exuberance” indeed… I’m wondering what a Paul Newman roast would be like. Or maybe Jimmy Stewart. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/4 "2011-07-05T19:35:47Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > I’d be down for roasting Alan Greenspan - “irrational exuberance” indeed… Hell yeah! Ayn Rand’s butt-boy has it coming. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/5 "2011-07-05T19:39:34Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > I’m wondering what a Paul Newman roast would be like. Or maybe Jimmy Stewart. Along those lines: Gregory Peck George C. Scott E.G. Marshall Robert Young ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/6 "2011-07-05T20:07:47Z")
A Roast requires respect for the person’s contribution to the world, it’s really public joking about a person you genuinely care for. Flavor Flav and Bob Saget had no business being roasted. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/7 "2011-07-05T20:22:53Z")
Living people who’d probably be hard to roast: Alan Alda Carol Burnett Jane Lynch Lynch has a reputations as being super nice, and Alda and Burnett are so iconic with no real scandals. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/8 "2011-07-05T20:26:30Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > A Roast requires respect for the person’s contribution to the world, it’s really public joking about a person you genuinely care for. > > Flavor Flav and Bob Saget had no business being roasted. I’ll give you Flav, but Saget deserves - nay, **demands** - respect, if only for his two pillars of comedic acheivement: his performance in “The Aristocrats”, and his plaintive country crossover song, “My Dog Licked My Balls”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/9 "2011-07-05T22:12:30Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Or maybe Jimmy Stewart. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FnQBlcjB0A](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FnQBlcjB0A) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/10 "2011-07-05T22:21:12Z")
What you guys don’t get is that it’s the \*nice \*guys who make the best roastees. The point is to mock people who don’t usually get mocked. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/11 "2011-07-05T23:38:06Z")
Captain “Sully” Sullenberger. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/12 "2011-07-05T23:47:13Z")
Tom Hanks. After you make a few cross dressing jokes, you’re just picking on a nice guy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/13 "2011-07-06T00:14:02Z")
The Dalai Lama Nelson Mandela ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/14 "2011-07-06T00:43:31Z")
OJ ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/15 "2011-07-06T00:44:25Z")
Oprah? Not that I wouldn’t like to see those brave souls doing the roasting, but I wonder if the laser beam glare from Oprah would strike them all dead. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/16 "2011-07-06T00:47:14Z")
Stephen Fry? Stephen Hawking? In fact maybe _any_ Brit called Stephen. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2011, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-least-roast-worthy/587922/17 "2011-07-06T01:04:43Z")
I think Howard Stern would be damn near impossible to roast. Not only has he publicly embraced everything that could possibly thrown at him, but he’s done it so outrageously and hilariously that no standup comic could possibly compete. The only successful Howard Stern roast would be a clip show of Howard Stern taking himself down.