James Franco and his LIPS !!!

CC always puts the uncensored version online, yes?

i guess? they also air th uncensored version late at nite in the weeks after

(james franco has an MFA).

"where did you guys get all your Indian jokes from, 1995? there are more Indians starring in sitcoms then there are working at 7-11's"

“So many gay jokes tonight about Franco. Apparently if you’re clean, well-dressed and mildly cultured, you’re super-gay now. Is that why the rest of you guys are so aggressively fat and dirty? You think if you read one book and take a shower, dicks are going to just fly into your face.”

(or you know, if you play Hart Crane, Allen Ginsberg and Harvey Milk's bf in a short period of time, make a film about the lost [sic] Cruising fisting footage and another one composed of River Phoenix outtakes, and are constantly making pronouncements about all the gay guys you love, people are going to make gay jokes.)

Also, if you're gay and in the closet, that too will bring the joeks.

I didn't know Andy Samberg was so funny, whoa

channelling Norm MacDonald there, doing a good job

dvr'd it, gonna watch tonight

Likewise, though I'd be a bit more pumped for this had the lineup included more actual comedians and less Apatow regulars.

agreed samberg was killing it

it seems like itd kinda be hard to legitimately roast franco in a way that would suit a comedy central audience though? idk, like ripping on him for being a shitty poet or whatever isnt really gonna bring the mainstream lols. caveat: i have not seen the whole roast

Samberg bit up there is um, conceptual, if that's what makes yer sides ache.

didn't love it

roasting > meta-roasting imo

i agree that its not in the spirit of a roast but this partic roast was so off base and un-roast-y that it worked for me as a send up of the whole exercise

I did like "Is there a barista in here, cause this roast just got DARK"

can i just: franco's labored rape joke

these comedy central roasts are so labored and terrible that sambergs bit works really well imo

i don't even like Norm MacDonald, but his 'ironic bombing' was better a few years ago.

The Chevy Chase & Shatner roasts were funny!

here's the mcdonald bit. without the video of him reading off cards its not quite as excellent tho:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzmNO6BPlAs

macdonald even.

"Cool it with the homophobia, people, it's 2005!" A+

Sarah Silverman ("I've been a supporter of Aziz Ansari for years...and for only the price of one cup of coffee per day") and Natasha Leggero ("Jonah Hill was born and raised in Hollywood, and you can tell – he's a name-dropper with big tits and an eating disorder") fared the best, I thought. Aziz Ansari's point about the presence of Indians on TV was spot on, but he's just not very funny. And fuck Andy Samberg.

all false

I have tried to watch a few roasts over the years but I always end up watching quietly for 20 min & then changing the channel

i actually laughed most of the way through this one, so idk if it was great or roasts are generally boiled anus & the bar is super low

bill hader cracked me up

Hader was pretty funny, yes. A much better "conceptual" bit than the one by his asshole ex-castmate.

ya i thought hader was great; this was overall p good, much better than most roasts

that Norm clip isn't nearly as good without actual video. both that and Samberg's have to be taken in context, they're a lot funnier when they come after 6-7 dudes just trying to be as mean and vulgar as possible. I thought Samberg's was funny because his jokes pretty much all wound up making fun of himself, IMO a bit different than what Norm did

conceptual isn't the same as high concept

Jeff Ross is the fucking worst, why is that guy alive

idk, i didn't hate him on the franco roast

i feel like he really didnt get a lot of shit

he is a higher-up among the Friars, and probably woulda fit right in at that Club in 1949.

even with the hideous cornrows

i thought jonah hills shots at him kinda landed

i just glimpsed the cornrows in the Samberg clip and assumed it was just for the occasion?

oh right

SPRANG BREAAAAK

oh yeah JF's award-worthy performance that had slipped my mind already

tbf I haven't seen it yet

I wonder if the other comedians were too scared to go hard at Ross in case he gave them the Jonah Hill treatment. Which would have made it better, I think.

Jeff Ross is a clown but at least he can tell a joke. I dunno for me these roasts only work when they're truly merciless, and these guys aren't cut out for it, they kept apologizing and giggling. Sarah Silverman and was pretty funny, and Natasha Leggero's dick in a box joke re: Lorne Michaels's open-casket funeral was pretty ace. But I would take eight Gilbert Gottfried's over the rest of the panel.

Also was nobody weirded out by Franco's "sign off"? Ugh.

he is a higher-up among the Friars, and probably woulda fit right in at that Club in 1949.

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Dunno if this was intended as a compliment, a diss or just an observation, but yes. Jonah Hill used it as a slam against him that Ross is probably only suited to do just this one thing, but I always like his appearances on these things. His joke about Franco at the Oscars being "a worse host than the AIDS monkey" was one of the evening's best.

Agreed, though, that this needed Gilbert Gottfried. But that's true of every roast.

no, Ross makes my skin crawl sometimes, but his approach is much more in keeping with the trad Friars Club roasts, where this format originated.

he's v creepy

but good at roast-jokes

agreed that every roast needs Gilbert Gottfried

I dunno Jeff Ross just looks like a dude who freebases coke at the Playboy Mansion and then breaks down in tears after paying $500 for a blowjob

sounds like a joke Jeff Ross would make at a roast

xpost well yeah I don't think anyone's saying he's a great looking dude or uncreepy

but he's acceptably good at his one comedy job ie roasting ppl so

his title is Roastmaster General

now i want to eat roast beef

roasts are seriously the worst shit ever, every time

I love that norm mcdonald thing tho. My friend made me watch the bob saget roast but he didn't tell me why and I sat through like an hour of "bob saget more like bob FAGET lol also he is a paedophile no seriously love ya man" and I was like why the hell are you making me watch this bullshit, and then the mcdonald thing happened and I seriously lost my shit

context prob helped for sure

seriously