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FOT Community => Links => Topic started by: jbissell on August 04, 2008, 06:36:40 PM
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You can follow all the action here:
http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/cc_insider/the_comedy_central_roast_of_bob_saget/index.html
Roastmaster: John Stamos
But where the hell is Dave Coulier?
I'm hoping for a full rundown from Tom after this airs.
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The Dais List:
Susie Essman
Greg Giraldo
Artie Lange
Tracy Morgan
Jeffrey Ross
Gilbert Gottfried
Jon Lovitz
Norm Macdonald
Jim Norton
Scott Bakula
Greg Behrendt
Alonzo Bodden
Andrew Dice Clay
Chris Fairbanks
Jennifer Finnigan
Rex Lee
Lori Loughlin
Kathleen Madigan
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Brian Posehn
Paul Provenza
Jonathan Silverman
Jodi Sweetin
This last name creeps me out to no end... I can only imagine the more tasteless than usual jokes that are going to be thrown aound at this horrorshow.
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The people who get roasted at these things are always horrible, but I'll still turn in to see people like Patton be funny.
This one looks especially bad though. Saget's a horrible choice for a roast (they've usually stuck to roasting veteran comedians or B-list celebrities) It doesn't help that they ripped off those Tourette's Guys clips for promo ads on Comedy Central where people are shouting "SAGET" like a swear word.
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The Dais List:
Susie Essman
Greg Giraldo
Artie Lange
Tracy Morgan
Jeffrey Ross
Gilbert Gottfried
Jon Lovitz
Norm Macdonald
Jim Norton
Scott Bakula
Greg Behrendt
Alonzo Bodden
Andrew Dice Clay
Chris Fairbanks
Jennifer Finnigan
Rex Lee
Lori Loughlin
Kathleen Madigan
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Brian Posehn
Paul Provenza
Jonathan Silverman
Jodi Sweetin
This last name creeps me out to no end... I can only imagine the more tasteless than usual jokes that are going to be thrown aound at this horrorshow.
Ugh! I just realized who that is. There is no way that I'll be able to stay away from this (you put it best) horror show.
But, Scott Bakula?!? Why? Seems totally random.
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Wow I am suddenly really excited to see this, given that list. Horror show indeed, with some goodness sprinkled in, but mostly the horror.
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I remember hearing that Joe D. Sweeten had turned heavily to the meth pipe at some point in her life, so I think she'll manage a night of dick jokes ok. Now if they invite Candace Cameron and call her a c**t*, I'll watch. How Tracy Morgan and Brian Posehn got talked into this, I cannot comprehend.
* Those asterisks denote my respect for you.
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How Tracy Morgan and Brian Posehn got talked into this, I cannot comprehend.
I was mostly shocked that Jonathan Silverman was available.
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I remember hearing that Joe D. Sweeten had turned heavily to the meth pipe at some point in her life, so I think she'll manage a night of dick jokes ok.
I'm more worried about jokes pushing the boundaries of taste with regard to her when she was on Full House... along with the obligatory Olsen twin jokes.
When I was 8 I liked Full House a lot. Of course now I recognize it as sappy drivel, but I guess it meant the beginning of the weekend etc. to a little kid... but this flogging of how the man behind Danny Tanner swears a lot now goes way beyond the common complaint of ruining one's childhood pop culture touchstones.
This roast is either going to perpetuate the whole 'Isn't it funny that Bob Saget has a filthy mouth?' gag to the few dozen people who don't know it already or it will result in a D-list star supernova where everyone in America finally decides not to give a crap about him and the rest of the Full House cast anymore.
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No Lisa Lampanelli? I thought she existed solely to participate in these things.
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No Lisa Lampanelli? I thought she existed solely to participate in these things.
She's busy berating LL Cool J in between Date My Mom and Parental Control.
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When I was 8 I liked Full House a lot. Of course now I recognize it as sappy drivel, but I guess it meant the beginning of the weekend etc. to a little kid...
True story: I was staying the night at a friends house the night TGIF! premiered, because that kind of thing was a very big deal to my friend and I at that time (I was in mid grade school). About 3 minutes in to the pilot of Full House, my parents called to let me know my grampy died and that we were leaving first thing in the morning for the funeral in Sag Harbor.
While I was waiting to get picked up, I just sat there and watched the show with this super uncomfortable family, just sort of in shock because he was the first close person I knew to die. Because of that I've always associated that show with the horrible, awkward feeling that surrounds death, which probably isn't too far off what everyone else associates it with, now that I think about it.
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No Lisa Lampanelli? I thought she existed solely to participate in these things.
She has a HBO pilot that she is working on. (true story)
There are 5-7 people on that list that are generally funny and a few that are fun to watch roast people, for a Comedy Central roast thats a great ratio. I watch highlight clips of these roasts and always enjoy them. I'd watch more but it gets a little boring to hear so many jokes that are 'I haven't seen this many ____ since ____'.
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I'm predicting the pinnacle achievement of this roast will be the long awaited Gottfried/Saget "The Aristocrats" comedy battle.
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How did Stamos not bring in Mike Love for this? He'd alienate everybody in the room, then sue most of them, and the second someone made a captain's hat joke, we'd have an all-out brawl.
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I'm predicting the pinnacle achievement of this roast will be the long awaited Gottfried/Saget "The Aristocrats" comedy battle.
I thought the same thing. If there's a reprise of these performances, that could take up half the show, but can Comedy Central do that kind of material? I really don't know the answer.
I love a good roast, apparently regardless of who's being roasted. I made it all the way through the Pam Anderson roast, an event built around someone I don't care about at all.
Some of the names on the dais list are completely puzzling, maybe making the show somewhat interesting.
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U.S. TV star Bob Saget has raced to the defence of his former Full House co-stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen after comedians at his recent Comedy Central Roast turned on the twins.
Saget insists some of the gags about the sisters, who shared the role of his daughter Michelle on the sitcom, were a little offensive and he was upset the former child stars were poked fun at.
At one point funnyman Jeff Ross quipped, "Mary-Kate and Ashley were supposed to be here tonight, but they heard there was food," alluding to Mary-Kate Olsen's much-publicised battle with an eating disorder.
In a press statement, angry Saget says, "Anybody who talks about my TV kids - that upsets me. I am very protective. I love them very, very much."
The roast will air in the U.S. on 17 August.
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Anybody watching this right now?
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Anybody watching this right now?
I'm recording it so I can blow through it in like 20min.
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I liked it, it was nice seeing Jon Lovitz again especially.
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My Bob Saget Roast Report
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I will watch this and complain the whole time so you don't have to.
Jeff Garlin looks really bad with short hair, and he always looks like he has a huge wallet or really tight pants when he sits down. Never comfortable! I can't wait to hear him speak.
John Stamos is hosting, and he seems like the least personable guy in the world. I can't stop imagining him with a black eye and being the exact kind of guy who did something to deserve it, like grabbing your girlfriends behind right in front of you.
Now I'm 25 minutes in, and on my first laugh. Granted, it was a Greg Giraldo laugh which are at best a mild chuckle, but I do believe that somewhere in another divergent reality (one where he never got hooked up with the Tough Crowd gang) he's pretty funny.
This is the one roast I actually wanted Andy Dick at, just so he might beat up Jon Lovitz again. His stand up is the absolute worst, and this is even worse than that.
Second laugh, Jeff Ross. Some old timey joke that was sort of clever and hacky. But that's still one begrudging point for him!
Jodi Sweeten looks like a latter-day Britney Spears, with a weird bouffant (I think thats what its called) and a tshirt. She's still hot though, and look, no meth-mouth! That's either a bonus for her or the company that made her veneers.
Lewis Black has his a video message for Bob. Apparently he wasn't available to be there in person.
Susie Essman: "The reason I'm here is because this is a challenge for me". If the challenge is reading through the jokes some dick loving homophobe wrote for you as fast as you can with little to no inflection or rhythm, you win.
Brian Pohsen, I don't get it, and I don't like it. "Bob, you've been a big influence on me man". He really better need that cash, I want to believe he does.
Alan Thicke is in attendance. So is Scott Bakula.
Cloris Leachman is by far the funniest person up there right now, she has a knack for this. Making out with John Stamos seemed "too fakey".
Norm MacDonald may not be Andy Kaufman, but at least he has the appropriate amount of respect for this event (none).
The moment I've been waiting for, Jeff Garlin! Oh shit, he's doing a stupid character. Now he's doing jokes, as himself, but in that same sloppy character. May he always find the pit walls too slippery to climb.
Commercial. In the preview of the movie "College", Verne Troyer punches a guy at a kegger. Looks AMAZING. Ly bad. Edgy opinion, I know.
Sarah Silverman has a video from Bob's "mom", played by that character actress everybody knows but doesn't know, she does plenty of commercials. I don't buy that she's his mother.
You cannot fault Jim Norton for doing this, however you feel about him (but I still don't like him). This is his bread and butter with something disgusting/perverse on it, so what can you say.
Rickles was Rickles, he always makes me laugh if not for his humor then for the funny faces he makes when he talks. Only one racist joke! He looks so alive, it's amazing.
How is it possible that Gilbert Gottfried is making me laugh?! I must be mistaken. "Best" Olsen twins joke of the night, which is still not a very high water mark. I want him to say "That's Me!" so bad.
I just spaced out on the rest, which means Bob Saget started talking. I'd hope he goes home and cries himself to sleep about how awful this was, but millionaires never cry.
That was the worst one yet, and I've actually enjoyed the others somewhat. End of report!
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Thanks, RegJoe. I enjoyed your summary 1000% more than I would have enjoyed the actual broadcast.
Can you do the Flavor Flav one, too?
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I watched it, and for me, it was as if someone heard the times when Tom talked about Bob Saget, Bob Saget's comedy (filth mouth, full house spoofing, etc.), and the hate pit (Not only was Bob Saget there, but former hate pit member Jeff Garlin was also present), and went "Great! Let's make an hour and a half show encompassing all of that!". Did they have to shoot it from the hate pit? Did Jeff Garlin get a free entry pass since he was a former member?
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I thought that it was kind of funny that they needed to take the Full House spoof to another level by having the actors there. Like as if seeing "Joey's" face when the punchline is given really makes it that much more appropriate.
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I thought that it was kind of funny that they needed to take the Full House spoof to another level by having the actors there. Like as if seeing "Joey's" face when the punchline is given really makes it that much more appropriate.
Does that mean Dave Coulier was in attendance? If yes, did he speak?
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Brian Pohsen, I don't get it, and I don't like it. "Bob, you've been a big influence on me man". He really better need that cash, I want to believe he does.
You do realize that sentence was the set-up for a joke, right? That he wasn't actually complimenting Saget? I forget the punchline, it wasn't great or anything, but come on, don't blatantly misrepresent the guy like that.
I thought the roast had its moments. Greg Giraldo and Jim Norton were both solidly funny. It was definitely not the worst one ever, there's no way it was worse than the Flava Flav roast. That was a disaster. This one was pretty good.
John Stamos's teeth are insanely white.
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My Bob Saget Roast Report
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I will watch this and complain the whole time so you don't have to.
Now I'm 25 minutes in, and on my first laugh. Granted, it was a Greg Giraldo laugh which are at best a mild chuckle, but I do believe that somewhere in another divergent reality (one where he never got hooked up with the Tough Crowd gang) he's pretty funny.
This is the one roast I actually wanted Andy Dick at, just so he might beat up Jon Lovitz again. His stand up is the absolute worst, and this is even worse than that.
From what I remember, Giraldo always strayed from the rest of the comics when he was on Tough Crowd. Most of those guys like Colin Quinn and Nick DiPaulo are pretty conservative and Giraldo always seemed to piss them off because he's a lot smarter (didn't he go to Columbia and Harvard Law?)
The absolute worst was Jon Lovitz. Totally unfunny and it's really bad to stay with just gay jokes for your whole set. Gilbert Gottfried, Giraldo, & Jeffrey Ross are always good at roasts. Cloris Leachman filled the role of the old, out of place woman very well and was much funnier than previous old ladies (Betty White, Bea Arthur).
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From what I remember, Giraldo always strayed from the rest of the comics when he was on Tough Crowd. Most of those guys like Colin Quinn and Nick DiPaulo are pretty conservative and Giraldo always seemed to piss them off because he's a lot smarter (didn't he go to Columbia and Harvard Law?
Apparently, yet he consistently loses on Root of All Evil (except for the one where he was arguing that drinking games are more evil than the Olympics, which isn't exactly a monumentally hard case to make).
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I was puzzled about Norm MacDonald's bit. His jokes were all horrible, worse than anyone else's, and that's an achievement with this group. Were they purposely bad? That's what I thought. If so, that's a little bit funny in itself, like saying, this event is such a joke that it doesn't merit me standing up here and trying to actually make jokes. Because that would be respecting it somehow.
It had it's moments, but all in all, a mediocre roast of a hate-pit-worthy "comedian."
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You do realize that sentence was the set-up for a joke, right? That he wasn't actually complimenting Saget? I forget the punchline, it wasn't great or anything, but come on, don't blatantly misrepresent the guy like that.
Yes, for that particular joke he wasnt being sincere, but there were times towards the end of his set where he got just as deep into the "sincere moment" as read off teleprompter as everyone else (even under thinly veiled sarcasm), which was sad, because I love him. I honestly wanted to say worse about that bit, but I deleted most of it out of that same respect. All in all I didn't throw him under the bus, he went willingly all on his own.
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Greg Giraldo is underrated and really funny, in any context, but especially at roasts. I am pro-Giraldo!
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I was puzzled about Norm MacDonald's bit. His jokes were all horrible, worse than anyone else's, and that's an achievement with this group. Were they purposely bad? That's what I thought. If so, that's a little bit funny in itself, like saying, this event is such a joke that it doesn't merit me standing up here and trying to actually make jokes. Because that would be respecting it somehow.
I thought Macdonald turned in the best performance -- which, given the show, isn't saying a whole lot. He did make me laugh more than anyone else. And then he kept explaining his lame jokes, which got a couple of additional laughs.
It felt like he swiped all his jokes verbatim from some long-out-of-print collection of generic insults for roasts and toasts, circa 1950 or something. That actually seems entirely plausible to me, and pretty funny.
The title would've been something like: The Unabashed Treasury of Roastmaster's Wit. And the author have been anonymous, or it could have been a pseudonym such as, "The Roastmaster."
Sorry... I'm going on a bit with this.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/Xm7h3NdADAc&hl=en&fs=1
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That youtube clip is of norm macdonald is the only thing I've seen and I thought it was pretty funny. I thought it was pretty great that it was more or less totally clean. I loved when he said "Ladies and Gentleman, this man is for the birds." It's so not Norm Macdonald to say "Ladies and Gentlemen". It was totally like just some crappy instult-toast at a PAL dinner or something. But I hate Roasts in general, so who am I to judge?
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I love the stack of index cards.
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It felt like he swiped all his jokes verbatim from some long-out-of-print collection of generic insults for roasts and toasts, circa 1950 or something.
Yah, Henny Youngman was the KING of the bungee-chord joke!!!
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Yah, Henny Youngman was the KING of the bungee-chord joke!!!
I guess I was focused on the "this man is for the birds," "over the hill" material... and the gentlemen/scoundrel joke about Gilbert Gottfried.
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It felt like he swiped all his jokes verbatim from some long-out-of-print collection of generic insults for roasts and toasts, circa 1950 or something.
Yah, Henny Youngman was the KING of the bungee-chord joke!!!
Stop being so thorough. Seriously, come off it.
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You know... Henny lived long enough to have told a bungee cord joke or two. It's possible. ;D
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I thought Macdonald turned in the best performance -- which, given the show, isn't saying a whole lot. He did make me laugh more than anyone else. And then he kept explaining his lame jokes, which got a couple of additional laughs.
It felt like he swiped all his jokes verbatim from some long-out-of-print collection of generic insults for roasts and toasts, circa 1950 or something. That actually seems entirely plausible to me, and pretty funny.
The title would've been something like: The Unabashed Treasury of Roastmaster's Wit. And the author have been anonymous, or it could have been a pseudonym such as, "The Roastmaster."
Sorry... I'm going on a bit with this.
See, that's what I had to conclude. Which I agree, kind of makes his performance more clever than everyone else's. If I missed the point initially, which I think I sort of did, his jokes weren't actually the worst, they were very good.
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It felt like he swiped all his jokes verbatim from some long-out-of-print collection of generic insults for roasts and toasts, circa 1950 or something.
Yah, Henny Youngman was the KING of the bungee-chord joke!!!
Stop being so thorough. Seriously, come off it.
Aww shucks, I was just a-joshin