I just saw a commercial for The Roast of William Shatner on Comedy Central on Sunday night. With all of his antics over the years, I expect it'll be a classic. I know I'm going to be glued to the set then!

commercials have been really good too. They start the festivities with him really making fun of himself already.

So much ammunition .....

Anybody wanna bet the commercials will be funnier than the show? :rolleyes:

if my sources are correct they will re run an "unbleeped " version on the following saturday . ( i remember them doing that with the Pam A roast ) .
i'll probably watch 'em both times .
hb

White Commanche is on Turner. Shat plays a cowboy, Johnny Moon, and his twin brother, The White Commanche, who is always doing bad stuff, and the good cowboy gets the blame. It's kind of a roast all by itself. (there's a couple of ST episodes in there somewhere as well.)

And it has a Jazzy soundtrack...

I was really looking forward to this thing and I have to say that I was horribly, horribly disappointed.

Only about 10% was actually funny with the other 90% just being stupid gay (not even jokes, just disqusting comments) and some 'bad' racial jokes.
Apparently with George just coming out of the closet, that seemed to be where everyone was going. My wife and I actually had the remote in our hands a few times thinking about changing the channel.

Somehow, people have forgotten how to do a good roast.

The show did have its (few and far between) funny moments, but overall I agree that it was not a good roast. I wasn't even sure of who they were roasting. It was a continuous round-robin of jabs and asides directed at each of the attendees.

And what was up with Lisa Lampanelli? She read here entire speech as if she had just written it.

I'm sorry about getting your hopes up.....I thought the Shat would hit the fan, but evidently something else did instead!

What the hell happened to Farrah Fawcett Majors? When did she turn into a geriatric Courtney Love?

Pretty disapointing, and it kind of makes me re-appreciate the ol' don-rickles-foster-brooks kinda roast.

IT'S SHATNER!
what did you expect?

Have to say I was dissappointed too. I remember watching Roasts when I was a kid (Dean Martin? etc.) and that was more what I was expecting. This thing was just vulgar, IMO. Very little of it was even about Shatner.

It had a few good zings like when Nichelle Nicholswanted to make TV history again by having Shatner kiss her black ass and Betty White was a hoot.

All the gay jokes, Andy Dick and Lisa Lamponelli notwithstanding, it was just ok. Nothing as huge as I was hoping it would be.

What the hell happened to Farrah Fawcett Majors? When did she turn into a geriatric Courtney Love?When she got to be nearly 60 years old?

I agree with most of the posts here — the Shatner roast wasn't all that funny, and it felt way too scripted.

When she got to be nearly 60 years old?

I agree with most of the posts here — the Shatner roast wasn't all that funny, and it felt way too scripted.

I expected her to be older, but not crazier. She made Anna Nichole Smith look coherant and cogent!

That's the problem right there. Today they think you have to use the F word to be funny. The "Old School" roasters would never have put up with it. They said if you had to use filthy language, you weren't any good. I agree, they spent more time insulting each other than they did Shatner. It was very dissappointing, but with a few gems. I loved the phone call skit between Shatner and Nimoy. "Pointy-Eared P...." is now my favorite phrase.

The other classic was when Betty White mentioned how much fun the old roasts were, then looks over and says "Sorry Nichelle, you wouldn't have been invited". Now that is how you do it!, not a vulgar word spoken, but funny as you can get.

^some good points. Also, too many of the "comedians' went for the easy fat, bald, and gay jokes, which was doubly sad since Shatner's onscreen career & persona should have been a goldmine of material.

hoo boy !! it really made me miss the old Dean Martin roasts .
i loved the old Red Buttons routine ..... "....never got a dinner ! "
thought the best line was Shatner's , " who are these people !?? "
hb

Some of the lines that I DID enjoy were.

Lisa? Talking about the Grand prize on a game show when Betty White was young was Fire.

One of the few gay things that I thought WAS funny was when George himself said "This room smells like .P.........., I think."

I did think that Betty White was the best roaster, of course she did come from the old school of roasters.
Now at 39 those old Dean Martin roasts were a little after my bed time back then. But, just the 'f' word does not make things funny today.

BTW: Jeri Ryan was looking pretty hot. Didn't care much for her 7-o-9 look back then.

i was sorely disappointed. The commercials were far more original and poked better fun at Shatner. i agree that the roasts of old had a better flair. A few jabs at the presenters and most of the fun stuff for the roastee. i also agree that with Shatner's career, there should have been a really huge amount of material. i really didn't care for all the jabs at Takae and you really have to wonder how much real animosity was behind his closing comments to shatner. Plus, with this being the third Comedy Central roast, it's getting to be a real retread to see the same people making the same Andy dick jokes and such.

Sigh..i had hopes for this one.

Got a kick out of the Clint Howard appearance. And Shatner's hairpieces have improved considerably over the years.

uh...thats his real hair!

his "hairpieces" are just a myth!

;) Riiiight.

uh...thats his real hair!

his "hairpieces" are just a myth!

Suuuure. And Liberace never got married because his mother never approved of any of his girlfriends.

show me a pic of a bald Shatner!!!

"Morrie's Wigs don't come off...even underwater!" :thumbsup:

show me a pic of a bald Shatner!!!

No, you show me a picture of Shatner from the seventies where he doesn't look like he has a dead badger lyin' on top of his melon.

http://www.bald.com.au/images/hallofshame/WilliamShatner.jpg

aw man! he's just one of those guys that combs his hair so bad, it looks like a rug!

that whole hairpiece thing is an old hollywood myth!
everybody knows that!

Yvonne 'Batgirl' Craig played a green dancing girl and said she walked into his dessing room and he was bald.


Andy Dick Goes Berserk at Shatner Roast
Last Update: 8/15/2006 1:30:03 PM

Comedian/actor Andy Dick reportedly went berserk backstage at The Comedy Central Roast of Williams Shatner on Sunday, licking screen siren Farrah Fawcett and biting a journalist.

New York Post reporter Mandy Stadtmiller claims she watched Dick lick Fawcett, Carrie Fisher and comedian Patton Oswalt before turning his attentions to her.

He allegedly groped her, tried to kiss her, proclaimed his love for her and then bit her hand, telling her, "Baby please, put in something nice. They're so mean. I'm not weird. Maybe I'm a little weird, they make me out to be a monster, I'm not a monster. I just want to have fun, baby please."

She also accuses him of urinating in front of her and offering her cocaine.


They should have taped the backstage stuff.

http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/roast_shatner/index.jhtml

sombody who SAYS they saw something AINT PROOF!

It's not evidence, but it is testimony.

testimony???
what is this? a court room??

i need a pic! no pic? THEN IT'S REAL HAIR!!

http://edition.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9908/25/showbuzz/bill.shatner.jpg

Yeah, that's obviously real hair.

Uhhhhh, Dick licked Fawcett, Fisher and Oswalt on camera. What do they mean "Backstage"?

I thought George Takei was a hoot. I was wondering how he would take all the gay jokes being made at his expense. Then he came out and said, "Betty White, Nichelle Nichols, Lisa Lampenelli...it smells like [female anatomical reference] on this stage...or, so I've been told."

it is real hair!

It's not evidence, but it is testimony.In a court of law, eyewitness testimony is considered a form of evidence. (In English courts, "giving evidence" means the same as "giving testimony.") If Yvonne Craig were to testify under oath that she personally saw Shatner’s bald pate, that would be evidence.it is real hair!Right! And Frank Sinatra didn't associate with mobsters — he just had lots of friends with last names ending in a vowel!

yeah, but this aint no court and Yvonne Craig has not posted here!

SHOW ME PROOF OF A HAIRPIECE!

all i see is pics of him with his hair badly combed!

Why so worried if Shatman has a toup?

The funniest part of the show was the video retrospective of Shatner's musical career. It's kind of sad that clips of him being serious are far funnier than the "professional" comedians they try to pass off on us. I think he was being serious when he asked "Who are you people?"

Ruth Buzzy: Take away the hair, and make up, and gorgeous good looks and what have you got? (or words to that effect)
Dean Martin: You!
Ruth Buzzy beats Dean with purse.

That's FUNNY!

Anybody wanna bet the commercials will be funnier than the show? :rolleyes:I hate to be the one who says, "I told you so," but... George Takei was entertaining, as was Shatner's response at the end of the roast, and I thought Jason Alexander did the best he could with the rubbish script they gave him. Watching that roast made me wonder two things:

1. Why does Andy Dick have a career in show business, and why hasn't the mother ship come to take him back to his home planet?

2. When did Farrah Fawcett turn into the Crypt Keeper? Yikes!

Oh, I almost forgot...IT'S A TOUPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was really looking forward to this thing and I have to say that I was horribly, horribly disappointed.

Only about 10% was actually funny with the other 90% just being stupid gay (not even jokes, just disqusting comments) and some 'bad' racial jokes.
Apparently with George just coming out of the closet, that seemed to be where everyone was going. My wife and I actually had the remote in our hands a few times thinking about changing the channel.

Somehow, people have forgotten how to do a good roast.

I recorded it on DVR but after a few minutes, turned it off and erased it. The vulgarity was not even good vulgarity--way too easy and stupid. :vomit:

I got the feeling that they use the same people over and over for these roasts (Do they? I've never watched one before) and that these events have very little to do with the roastee.

While the crass humor was over the top on several occasions, I really enjoyed it. Of course, I also think it had something to do w/the company - I was at the LesterFest celebration in Chicago, sitting at the home of John & Linda Lester with a bunch of other folks from the Starship Modeler crowd. I won't be buying The DVD if one should ever come out, but didn't feel I'd wasted those minutes of my life.

Figures me and Griff would be the only one who liked it.... I thought Andy Dick's "Kock", the illegitimate love child of Kirk and Spock, was hilarious!!!

I'll chime in as a third person who enjoyed it. Sure, it was vulgar and crass, but I laughed thru almost all of it.

However, I will say that I don't find Andy Dick funny at all.

The rest were great. I only wish they hadn't condensed it so much - it was obvious that several of the the roasters only had highlights shown.

Eric

. . . Of course, I also think it had something to do w/the company - I was at the LesterFest celebration in Chicago, sitting at the home of John & Linda Lester with a bunch of other folks from the Starship Modeler crowd.

I hate to sound situational about it, but I could understand watching it in such company with a few beers. ;)

I saw Howard Stern's PPV New Years Eve special back in '93 or thereabouts with a bunch of rowdy friends and had fun. The Bee Gees singing "You don't know what it's like . . . You don't know what it's like . . . to lose your . . . " in a fundraiser for John Wayne Bobbit was hilarious and a classic.

True! It prolly wouldn't've been quite so funny if it weren't for the fund friends!

BTW, I didn't have but a single beer w/dinner that night, so was totally sober when this aired. I still think it was a real hoot, looking back, but prolly wouldn't have been nearly so if I'd been watching it at home w/my wife.

What I thought was interesting - and have noticed nobody else has mentioned it! - is that Walter Koenig didn't show and was never mentioned. Whattup wit dat? :confused:

Betty White was one of my top five fav's! It always blows me away whenever a character she plays is so different than her usual wholesome TV characters of years past. :lol:

Re Betty White - who knew back in the 1970's that her character Sue Ann Nivens on the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" was actually a peak at the REAL her?

Figures me and Griff would be the only one who liked it.... I thought Andy Dick's "Kock", the illegitimate love child of Kirk and Spock, was hilarious!!!

Oh no...

Now I'll NEVER look on Kirk and Spock quite the same way ever again! :freak: :drunk: :D

Dang the legacy of those K&S Ladies from the '70's! It lives on! :o

Thought that Shat singing montage was terrible til I found this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=q3eADWNBe6o
:lol: :D