History Main / TheRoast

* The above plot would get recycled into another Creator/SethMacFarlane show''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' with Peter being roasted then of course overreacting to it and trying to find newer people to hang out with.

* Additionally, Comedy Central ran a show called ''The Burn'' hosted by Jeff Ross for a few years, which was essentially Ross using his roasting skills on current events, the panel of celebrities that episode (who also participated) and the audience.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In Andy Samberg's stint on the James Franco Roast, he decided to utilize an anti-humor approach, where his attempts at "roasting" the other attendees would be by saying things that were actually complimentary, but in a ferocious way (calling Creator/JonahHill out on his generous hospitality, saying that Natasha Legerro was blessed with the ability to birth a child, etc.). The exception came with Jeff Ross, who he simply refers to as a "melting hippo" before moving on.
** In fact, one can argue that the entire roast for Creator/JamesFranco would be one compared to most roasts, considering the verbal abuse/banter thrown around is very much self-aware, good-natured and done amongst real friends and non-strangers.
** In a similar fashion, while everyone else at the roast of Bob Saget went with typically offensive material, Norm Macdonald basically took his material from a 1950s book of jokes to tell at a retirement party.

** The Comedy Central ones always have the roastee make a grand entrance that is themed to their persona.

** Additionally, some topics are discussed ahead of time by the roastees/roasters/producers as verboten. By convention, each roastee is allowed to pick one subject as a no-questions-asked "off-limit," most people pick their family or children. Notably, Pamela Anderson forbade any jokes about the child that died in her pool at a party and her having hepatitis, while William Shatner similarly banned jokes about his wife dying (also in a pool, strangely enough). Reportedly, Donald Trump would not allow any jokes that insinuated he was not as rich as he claims to be.

-->"Look at you! You've [[YouAreFat let yourself]] [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries boldly go]]! When did you go from Captain Kirk to Captain [sic] Crunch? You left ''Series/TJHooker'' and went to P.F. Chang! Do you go to ''Series/BostonLegal'' or Boston Market?"

** In a similar fashion, while everyone else at the roast of Bob Saget went with typically offensive material, Norm Macdonald basically took his material from a 1950s joke book.

->''"Boom, roasted."''

--->"Nobody knows anybody else, so nobody wants to back down!."

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm1rZUjAm64 The Roast of Facebook]] by the rest of the Internet, with Google, Twitter and [=FourSquare=] resembling and voiced by, [[Creator/PennAndTeller Penn Jillette]], Creator/GilbertGottfried, and Lisa Lampanelli, respectively. However the roasters get more mileage out of hazing [=MySpace=] instead, and [=MySpace=] himself derails the Roast completely when own his set falls flat.

* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' has Don Rickles do this to Rodney Dangerfield during their fight. He's ''trying'' to be genuinely insulting, but unfortunately for him he can't find any insults that Rodney doesn't wholeheartedly agree with. When Don runs out of material, Rodney takes the upper hand and literally roasts him (a pit of charcoal was placed in the ring specifically so that this kind of thing could happen.

* AcceptableTargets: Watching any roast would lead you to believe '''everyone''', ''even people not present at the roast'', is an AcceptableTarget. However, some things get edited out because the roastee took offence to them.

* ''Creator/ComedyCentral Presents The Roast of...'' Comedy Central's yearly roast of a famous celebrity, probably the most well-known of the current era. CC used to run The Friar's Club roasts for years before switching to their own.

** According to [[https://ew.com/article/2004/08/10/snls-first-breakout-star-laughs-about-his-disappearance/ this]] article, a major issue in the notorious 2002 roast of Creator/ChevyChase (who had actually been the subject of an earlier roast before that) was that hardly any of the roasters were friends or people he'd worked with, meaning it was basically a couple of hours of younger comedians he didn't know calling him a talentless hack.

---> '''Jimmy Carr:''' Ann Coulter is one of the most repugnant, hateful, hatchet-faced bitches alive, [[HopeSpot but it's not too late to change]], Ann. [[BaitAndSwitch You could kill yourself.]]

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Greg Giraldo uses this joke regularly when mentioning female roasters.
--> ''(about Creator/FarrahFawcett)'' "That poster of you in the bathing suit ... That poster caused more seed to be spilled than a crime lab technician with Parkinson's Disease."

** At the Creator/BruceWillis Roast, Creator/DemiMoore made a surprise appearance and joked that, "I knew he'd be [surprised], even though I went over with him yesterday. I knew he'd forget." This is in addition to jokes about his limited acting range and vocabulary in films. He revealed in 2022 that he was diagnosed with aphasia which impairs memory and limits speech, forcing his retirement from acting.

** And crosses it very very far. See: Creator/TedDanson in blackface at Creator/WhoopiGoldberg's roast, and Creator/GilbertGottfried's 9/11 joke at Hugh Hefner's roast.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quUBVkR_Zbo One of the PSA episodes]] for ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' has [[DrillSergeantNasty Sarge]] be the subject of this. Among everyone's comments, from Sarge changing Donut's notification tone on his phone to the ping of a grenade pin ("Alertness is a full time job!"), to coining the term 'active bitch-face' just for [[ActionGirl Carolina]] ("And you kicked my ass. I think we're even."), to presenting a list of changes to [[OnlySaneMan Wash]], which are just Series/HappyDays plots with Sarge as the Fonz. ("It'd be a real turning point for us!")

* The Smiths roasted Roger in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''[='s=] "The Great Space Roast". Roger wears Ray-Bans throughout the set and pretends to join in the fun, until he removes his sunnies to reveal tear-streaked cheeks. He spends the rest of the show trying to assassinate the family with guns and bombs. This is likely a reference to the incident with Chevy. At the end of the episode Roger forces the family to roast each other and [[EvilCannotComphrehendGood is honestly shocked that they can take it with such good humor]], suggesting that he didn't understand what a roast was about in the first place.

* The Smiths roasted Roger in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''[='s=] "The Great Space Roast". Roger wears Ray-Bans throughout the set and pretends to join in the fun, until he removes his sunnies to reveal tear-streaked cheeks. He spends the rest of the show trying to assassinate the family with guns and bombs. This is likely a reference to the incident with Chevy. At the end of the episode Roger forces the family to roast each other and is honestly shocked that they can take it with such good humor, suggesting that he didn't understand what a roast was about in the first place.

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