James Franco and his LIPS !!!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Ylt0zS1CI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Ylt0zS1CI

yeah I should add I've only ever seen comedy central and (britisher) channel 4 contributions to the genre

this made me laugh.

samberg was great.

i like how noone was laughing at samberg at first except hader who was almost on the floor dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4VsCiEfPpI

Hey guys, where does James Franco store his enormous collection of newspaper clippings about Paris? In his Franco-file!

Ha!

What until you see what saucy spoonsful he has filed under Franco-American.

where does he keep his Phranc records

http://t.co/3V0dMgB9fI

OK, let's just do this

https://twitter.com/keithuhlich/status/378223409206808577

http://francovsliterature.tumblr.com/

http://i.imgur.com/bXbz5GP.jpg

Only just now realized that JF is the evil, bizarro, straight-vague version of NPH.

I might take a position on that if I ever watched the Tonys.

Don't worry. He'll get his shot at the Oscars soon enough.

as long as we don't see JF in Assassins or Hedwig

He needs to play a dad in a movie. Johnny Depp needs to play someone's dad...or grandfather.

those sunglasses don't even look good on him

lol + otm

I think he's listening to Bad Company in that photo

have we discussed his instagram account

i said this elsewhere but he looks like he's auditioning for the lead in the al parker biopic there

is his instagram real??