Interview - Roastmaster Unplugged: Jeff Ross Opens Up About Loss, Life and Comedy
Mo News
@mosheh / tentwentytwo
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 1:01.4 | home hey everybody welcome back to the mo news podcast it's moshu no new here with a special |
| 1:09.4 | conversation with all of you today with comedian je Ross. He has spent decades making us laugh, sometimes wins at his various roast. Alec Baldwin, Charlie Sheen, Flav of Flav, Donald Trump more than a decade ago. Most recently, the Tom Brady roast that got billions of views on Netflix. He has a new Broadway show |
| 1:28.9 | that my wife, Alex, and I had the fortune of attending. It's called Take a Banana for a Ride. |
| 1:34.0 | We actually explained that title. I'll talk to him about it a little bit in this conversation. |
| 1:37.6 | And it reveals a very different side of Jeff Ross, not the roastmaster general, but the, |
| 1:42.7 | what I refer to as the musher side of Jeff Ross. |
| 1:45.8 | Over 90 minutes, he talks about his family losing both parents at a young age, saying |
| 1:51.0 | goodbye to close friends recently like Bob Sagitt, Norm McDonald, and Gilbert Godfrey. |
| 1:55.2 | He talks about his own health challenges, all while correcting jokes. |
| 1:58.4 | At the moment, you start tearing up. |
| 2:00.5 | That's when he starts dropping jokes again on all of you. |
| 2:02.8 | So the Broadway show was great. If you're in New York in the next couple of weeks, definitely go see it. |
| 2:07.7 | We'll include a link to tickets in the show notes here. But I think you'll really enjoy this conversation. |
| 2:13.9 | From the series to the funny, his experience battling colon cancer with loss, but also his |
| 2:19.9 | take on comedy, his take on roasting, actually has some advice for all of you if you have a |
| 2:24.7 | wedding speech to give. If you're trying to drop some humor on the groom or at any time where |
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