Roast of James Franco

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It is on Comedy Central on Sky now

Charlie19

It was very good, probably the best roast i'v seen.Wouldn't be to familar with Bill Hater, Geoff Ross or Andy Samberg but found their jokes very funny.

Ross telling Franco's gran that she only 127 hours left:eek:

Basq

Watched it last week, and found it average.

Am a big fan of Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island, but he was horribly unfunny!

Penn

Basq wrote: »

Watched it last week, and found it average.

Am a big fan of Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island, but he was horribly unfunny!

Yeah, you could see what he was doing but it still didn't work too well. Funniest bit of his part was him thanking Bill Hader for laughing.

I think everyone had some great jokes but no-one really gave a great overall performance except maybe Jeffrey Ross. I thought he had some of the best jokes (Jonah's demands, Spaghetti Western, 127 Hours, Bill's eyes)

Basq

Penn wrote: »

Yeah, you could see what he was doing but it still didn't work too well. Funniest bit of his part was him thanking Bill Hader for laughing.

I think everyone had some great jokes but no-one really gave a great overall performance except maybe Jeffrey Ross. I thought he had some of the best jokes (Jonah's demands, Spaghetti Western, 127 Hours, Bill's eyes)

Yep, Jeffrey Ross excels at roasts.. he's always reliable!

I actually think Aziz Ansari was only average, though everyone else was pretty damn good.

Actually no.. Franco's closing "art-installation" schtick wasn't funny at all.

And some of Natasha Leggero's comments were on the cruel side of funny tbh... even some of the other roasters were taken aback I think.

Birneybau

Basq wrote: »

Watched it last week, and found it average.

Am a big fan of Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island, but he was horribly unfunny!

Was almost like an excercise in anti-funny.

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Basq wrote: »

Yep, Jeffrey Ross excels at roasts.. he's always reliable!

I actually think Aziz Ansari was only average, though everyone else was pretty damn good.

Actually no.. Franco's closing "art-installation" schtick wasn't funny at all.

And some of Natasha Leggero's comments were on the cruel side of funny tbh... even some of the other roasters were taken aback I think.

Jeff Ross was great, as was Bill Hader, Sarah Silverman and Natasha Leggero I thought

Sinfonia

Was disappointed with Aziz, and yeah, Franco's own bit wasn't great, but I liked the rest.

Top lines were:
Bill Hader taking the piss out of himself being great as the 'best friend's best friend asking an exposition question': '"So, you're gonna follow her to Hawaii??" "Yes Bill, now **** off for the rest of the movie.'

And "You had me at spaghetti"

Maplespuds

Sinfonia wrote: »

Was disappointed with Aziz,

I thought Aziz was great. He pulled most of the people up on their comments during the show meaning he was thinking pretty much off the cuff as opposed to everyone else.

I thought his throwback to Carmela that she might need to shout her punchlines if she ever had a crowd bigger than 10 was a great comeback.

the whole year inn

By far not the best roast.Ross was very good Andy Samberg was dire!

Best lines where "what nationality are you james half American half asleep" and the other went something like "what song will you play at Lorne Michaels funeral ,dick in a box"

Hill was ok but didn't want to piss anyone off.
There should be no holding back at these things was poor to say the least.

You ever watch the old Roasts? This is one of Orson Welles roasting Jimmy Stewart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKxTS4_FJM

It's amazing to compare how classy these guys were to what is around today.

expectationlost

yes andy samburg was doing an exercise in anti-funny and it did get funny

SirDelboy18

I love Bill Hader - he is one of the funniest people in the world.

Doesn't have that much exposure outside of US but has been nominated for 2 Emmys for his work on SNL something which is completely unheard of. The last Male on SNL to be nominated for an Emmy was Eddie Murphy in 1983.

Can't wait to see this because of how much his stuff is being praised.

Charlie19

expectationlost wrote: »

yes andy samburg was doing an exercise in anti-funny and it did get funny

Yeah. When he started off, I was like wtf has this lad ever done stand up before but then I realized what he was trying to achieve and I actually think he pulled it off very well.

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Deleted User wrote: »

You ever watch the old Roasts? This is one of Orson Welles roasting Jimmy Stewart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKxTS4_FJM

It's amazing to compare how classy these guys were to what is around today.

The Dean Martin roasts were fantastic. There was a real sense of class to them and the jokes were genuinely funny. The newer roasts are generally a bunch of nobody comedians trying to one up one another and be as outrageous as they can.

Frank Gorshin's impersonations were always a highlight of any roast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEtDidm0pRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OrE83eKGtk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=352rJ3sylTs

Frank Gorshin was the guy that was effectively the original Riddler from the Adam West series, right? I always forget that he was more well known as an impressionist foremost.

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Frank Gorshin was the guy that was effectively the original Riddler from the Adam West series, right? I always forget that he was more well known as an impressionist foremost.

That he was. The man was a comedic genius and the way he could act out entire scenes seemlessly slipping from one impression to the next was genius. They don't name them like him anymore.

gazzer

Watched this last night. Very hit and miss. Loved Sarah and Natasha's sets. Jeff Ross was very funny as well. Surely though it should be called "The roast of everybody on stage"? There wasnt that much 'roasting' of James Franco at all.

Footoo

Samberg was greatI thought. Always love the anti roasts more than the racist, mysoginist stuff that we normally get. His joke about Aziz having a unique take on what it's like to be American was perfect considering the antiquated stuff we'd heard before that.

Still not as good as Norm Macdonalds anti roast of Bob Sagat.

Pure perfection.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/661a77b3da/norm-macdonald-trolls-the-bob-saget-roast