Jeff Ross Lives to Roast

The Last Laugh

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Ross is always expanding his duties as Roastmaster General—most recently helming a series of ‘Historical Roasts’ for Netflix. This summer, he will be roasting Alec Baldwin for Comedy Central. In this episode, talks about casting Gilbert Gottfried at Hitler, “bumping mics” with Dave Attell and looks back at some of his most memorable moments roasting everyone from Donald Trump to Justin Bieber.

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0:00.0	Here at the Historical Roasting Society, we wanted to do a show about World War II,
0:05.0	but we had a hard time picking a guest of honor.
0:08.0	Hitler? Not a fan.
0:10.0	Churchill?
0:12.0	I couldn't afford the bar tab.
0:14.0	FDR?
0:16.0	Lame.
0:18.0	Charles de Gaulle? Not even sure who she is.
0:22.6	So I thought, who deserves the last laugh?
0:26.6	Who deserves their moment in the sun?
0:29.6	So why is tonight different from all other nights?
0:32.6	Because tonight, our guest of honor is Anne Frank.
0:41.1	Hello, and welcome to The Last Laugh.
0:43.0	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast.
0:48.8	Last week, we got word that Alec Baldwin will be getting the Comedy Central roast treatment later this summer.
0:53.8	So naturally, I wanted to talk about it with the roastmaster general himself, Jeff Ross.
0:58.2	Jeff has been professionally roasting celebrities for more than two decades at this point,
1:03.4	taking on everyone from Pamela Anderson and Charlie Sheen to Justin Bieber and Donald Trump back when he could take a joke, as long as it wasn't about his net worth.
1:08.2	On this episode, Jeff gives us a taste of how he will handle Saturday Night's
1:12.1	Life's Trump Stand-in and talks about the origin of his historical roast series on Netflix,
1:16.6	in which, among other things, Gilbert Godfried's Hitler, Roasts and Frank.
1:21.8	So here's me and Jeff Ross.
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