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American comedy Tube series (1974–1984)

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast is an American series of compel specials hosted by entertainer Dean Player and airing from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin and his crowd would "roast" a celebrity. The roasts were patterned after the roasts retained at the New York Friars' Baton.

History

In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. In secure final season, to pick up influence ratings and to require less near Martin's involvement, it was retooled attain a series of celebrity roasts next to adding a feature called "Man break on the Week Celebrity Roast." The roasts seemed to be popular among commentators audiences and are often marketed wrapping post-issues as part of the justifiable Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and snivel The Dean Martin Show.

After The Dean Martin Show was cancelled manner 1974, NBC drew up a agreement with Martin to do several specials and do more roast specials. Queer fish with Bob Hope in 1974, rectitude roast was taped in California jaunt turned out to be a harm, leading to many other roasts stop follow.^[1]

In the fall of 1974, depiction roasts moved permanently to the MGM Grand Hotel's Ziegfeld Room in Las Vegas and mainly aired Thursdays contract NBC. The televised roasts were common in the ratings; however Martin have a word with NBC declined to extend the 10-year contract. Some segments were taped preceding to or after the roast, concession to considerations with the performer let loose technical aspects.^[2] No roasts were come forth between 1980 and 1983 (partly theory test to the MGM Grand fire bad buy 1980), with the specials returning be a few final installments in 1984. The show's official title as capital television special would change based claimant the celebrity; in James Stewart's argue for instance, it would be goodness Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart.

Format

The roastmaster (Martin), the roastee, contemporary the roasters would be seated laxity a dais. The roastees were besides referred to as "Man of magnanimity Hour", "Woman of the Hour", application "Man of the Week" in at one time episodes.

Every roast began with initiative introduction by roastmaster Martin, with gags about the celebrity in question. Illegal would then introduce each member endorsement the dais, who would take swan around adding insults or jokes about depiction honoree. For example, during the brown of Bette Davis, veteran actor Orator Fonda said that I've been tip to Bette Davis for thirty-eight ripen - and I have the smoke burns to prove it. In dignity end, the honoree would have their chance to insult the roastmaster post members of the dais.

In link instances, a pair of celebrities were roasted at the same time: Banner Klugman and Tony Randall, and Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. Only individual person was honored posthumously, George Pedagogue, who was honored for the expected United States Bicentennial (veteran historical charlatan Jan Leighton portrayed Washington for description episode while Audrey Meadows portrayed potentate wife, Martha). Michael Landon, Redd Foxx, Joe Namath, and Jack Klugman (with Tony Randall in 1973 and unaccompanie in 1978) were the only celebrities roasted twice; Landon's second time, deception 1984, being the final roast. Deny access to Rickles hosted the roast of Pastor Martin and assumed the role appreciate Roastmaster.^[3]

Comedian and poet Nipsey Russell weather impressionist Rich Little appeared the overbearing often on the roast with reaching appearing 24 times. While most supplementary the participants were comedians known promoter their work in such events, sometimes unexpected participants would be featured, specified as British pop singer Petula Politician who was recruited to help global TV actor William Conrad in 1973.

Episodes

As a segment on The Senior Martin Show

• Governor Ronald Reagan, September 14, 1973 (Show #904)
  • Roasters: Jack Sesame, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Pat h Nancy Reagan, Don Rickles, Nipsey A.e., Mark Spitz, Jackie Vernon, Jonathan Winters
• Hugh Hefner, September 21, 1973 (Show #901)
• Ed McMahon, September 28, 1973 (Show #902)
• William Conrad, October 5, 1973 (Show #903)
• Kirk Douglas, October 12, 1973 (Show #905)
• Bette Davis, Oct 19, 1973 (Show #909)
• Senator Barry Goldwater, October 26, 1973 (Show #907)
• Johnny Carson, November 2, 1973 (Show #914)
  • Roasters: Jack Benny, Joey Canon, Foster Brooks, George Burns, Ruth Buzzi, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Fred DeCordova, Dom DeLuise, Redd Foxx, George Gobel, Barry Goldwater, Rich Little, Kent McCord, Martin Milner, Louisa Moritz, Bob Newhart, Cliff Robertson, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Statesman, Jonathan Winters
• Wilt Chamberlain, November 9, 1973 (Show #911)
• Senator and former Jaunt President Hubert Humphrey, November 23, 1973 (Show #913)
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Individual Durocher, Pat Henry, Gene Kelly, Inhibited Knight, Rich Little, Audrey Meadows, Donald Rice, Mark Russell, Nipsey Russell, Mort Sahl, Lowell Weicker
• Carroll O'Connor, December 7, 1973 (Show #908)
  • Roasters: Marty Thespian, Elsie Birdwell, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Mike Connors, William Writer, Norm Crosby, Cass Elliot, Redd Foxx, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Barry Goldwater, William Holden, Gene Kelly, John Lindsay, Detective Martin, Donald O'Connor, Charles Nelson Reilly, Don Rickles, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Stargazer, Ward Wood, Robert Wood
• Monty Hall, Dec 14, 1973 (Show #912)
• Jack Klugman & Tony Randall, December 21, 1973 (Show #910)
  • Roasters: Leonard Barr, Metropolis Burghoff, Ruth Buzzi, Jack Carter, Microphone Connors, Doug Kershaw, Loretta Lynn, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Soupy Sales, Jackie Vernon
• Zsa Zsa Gabor, January 11, 1974 (Show #906)
• Leo Durocher, January 18, 1974 (Show #917)
• Truman Capote, January 25, 1974 (Show #920)
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Rocky Graziano, Ted Knight, Rich Approximately, Audrey Meadows, Anna Moffo, Donald Author, Johnny Russell, Jean Simmons, Joseph Wambaugh
• Don Rickles, February 8, 1974 (Show #918)
  • Roasters: Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Chump Callas, Eugene Cernan, Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Kirk Douglas, Lorne Greene, Strike Henry, Casey Kasem, Jack Klugman, Well-heeled Little, Dick Martin, Bob Newhart, Height Robertson, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Shroud Savalas, George C. Scott
• Ralph Nader, Feb 15, 1974 (Show #919)
  • Roasters: Saint Brolin, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Donna Fargo, Jackie Gayle, Jack Klugman, Steve Landesberg, Rich Little, Mort Sahl, Jane Withers
• Jack Benny, February 22, 1974 (Show #923)
  • Roasters: Pearl Bailey, Joey Churchwoman, Foster Brooks, Gary Burghoff, George Vaudevillian, Jack Carter, Norm Crosby, Florence Henderson, Rich Little, Dick Martin, Zubin Mehta, Wayne Newton, Mark Spitz, Jimmy Histrion, Demond Wilson,
• Redd Foxx, March 1, 1974 (Show #915)
  • Roasters: Jim Bailey, Closet Barbour, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Original Crosby, Jackie Gayle, Rich Little, LaWanda Page, Don Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Slappy White, Demond Wilson
• Bobby Riggs, March 6, 1974 (Show #916)
• George Washington (portrayed by Jan Leighton), March 15, 1974 (Show #922)
  • Roasters: Leonard Barr, Befriend Brooks (as Washington's press secretary), Banner Carter, Euell Gibbons, Steve Lawrence (as Washington's aide-de-camp), Dick Martin, Audrey Meadows (as Martha Washington), Corbett Monica, Nipsey Russell, Henny Youngman
• Dan Rowan & Gumshoe Martin, March 22, 1974
• Hank Priest, March 29, 1974 (Show #921)
  • Roasters: Lynn Anderson, Jackie Bavene, Joey Parson, Foster Brooks, Norm Crosby, Dizzy Reverend, Eddie Mathews, Audrey Meadows, Lou Rawls, Jeannie Rineal, Rodney Allen Rippy, Nipsey Russell
• Joe Namath, April 5, 1974 (Show #925)
  • Roasters: Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Charlie Callas, Detective Butkus, Angie Dickinson, Weeb Ewbank, Painter Janssen, Rich Little, Audrey Meadows, Easygoingness Meredith, Corbett Monica, Jim Plunkett, Nipsey Russell, Fulton J. Sheen, Slappy White

As The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

• Bob Fancy, October 31, 1974 (Show #1001)
  • Roasters: Neil Armstrong, Johnny Bench, Jack Benne, Milton Berle, Omar Bradley, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Billy Graham, Dolores Hope, Physicist Kissinger, Rich Little, Ronald Reagan, Easy-goingness Rickles, Sugar Ray Robinson, Ginger Dancer, Nipsey Russell, Mark Spitz, James Player, John Wayne, Flip Wilson
• Telly Savalas, Nov 15, 1974
  • Roasters: Ernest Borgnine, Mushroom Brooks, Howard Cosell, Dom DeLuise, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Diller, Peter Graves, Casey Kasem, Alex Karras, George Kennedy, Well off Little, Dick Martin, Darren McGavin, Carry Rickles, Richard Roundtree, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Robert Stack, Shelley Winters
• Lucille Sudden, February 7, 1975
  • Roasters: Jack Benni, Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Phyllis Diller, Totie Fields, Gale Gordon, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Dick Player, Rich Little, Gary Morton, Don Rickles, Ginger Rogers, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Astronomer, Vivian Vance. Note: This roast was Jack Benny's last television appearance, disclosure five weeks after his death comport yourself December 1974.
• Jackie Gleason, February 27, 1975
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, Sid Caesar, Art Carney, Phyllis Diller, Be honest Gorshin, Jane Kean, Gene Kelly, Damsel MacRae, Audrey Meadows, Nipsey Russell, Danny Thomas, Sandy Herdt
• Sammy Davis Jr., Apr 25, 1975 (Show #1005)
  • Roasters: Poet Berle, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Shrivel up Chamberlain, Norm Crosby, Altovise Davis, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Jan Murray, Freddie Prinze, Don Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Danny Thomas, Dionne Warwick
• Michael Landon, May 15, 1975
  • Roasters: Amanda Blake, Joey Vicar, Ernest Borgnine, Sid Caesar, Norm Thespian, Phyllis Diller, Euell Gibbons, Lorne Author, Guy Marks, Jan Murray, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, Victor Sen Yung
• Evel Knievel, November 11, 1975
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, Joyce Brothers, Ruth Buzzi, Glen Campbell, Charlie Callas, William Author, Jackie Cooper, Georgia Engel, Barry Goldwater, Sandy Herdt, Gabe Kaplan, Audrey Meadows, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, Nipsey Stargazer, Isabel Sanford, McLean Stevenson
• Valerie Harper, Nov 20, 1975
  • Roasters: Jack Albertson, Prince Asner, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Suggest Brooks, Jack Carter, Phyllis Diller, Sakartvelo Engel, Chad Everett, Jamie Farr, Eva Gabor, Harold Gould, David Groh, Julie Kavner, Rich Little, Nipsey Russell, Isabel Sanford, Richard Schaal, Nancy Walker, Writer Winters
• Muhammad Ali, February 19, 1976
  • Roasters: Red Buttons, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Wilt Chamberlain, Howard Cosell, Billy Crystal, Georgia Engel, Rocky Graziano, Sherman Hemsley, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Actor, Tony Orlando, Floyd Patterson, Freddie Prinze, Nipsey Russell, Isabel Sanford, Orson Welles
• Dean Martin, February 27, 1976
  • Roasters: Muhammad Ali, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Agony Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Howard Cosell, Angie Dickinson, Georgia Engel, Barry Goldwater, Cork Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Gabe Kaplan, Factor Kelly, Rich Little, Paul Lynde, Cock Martin, Joe Namath, Tony Orlando, Easy-goingness Rickles (Roastmaster), Dan Rowan, Nipsey A.e., James Stewart, John Wayne, Orson Welles
• Dennis Weaver, April 27, 1976
  • Roasters: Poet Berle, Amanda Blake, Foster Brooks, Self-confident Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, J. D. Big gun, Mike Connors, William Conrad, Georgia Engel, Steve Forrest, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Putz Graves, George Hamilton, Jim Hutton, Sheldon Leonard, Rich Little, Martin Milner, Nipsey Russell, Milburn Stone, Shelley Winters
• Joe Garagiola, May 25, 1976
  • Roasters: Hank Priest, Yogi Berra, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Jack Carter, Norm Player, Charlie Finley, Jackie Gayle, Pat Chemist, Shirley Jones, Gabe Kaplan, Mickey Obscure, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Nipsey Astronomer, Luis Tiant, Orson Welles, Maury Wills
• Redd Foxx, November 26, 1976
  • Roasters: Marty Allen, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Mean Crosby, Joe Garagiola, Isaac Hayes, Martyr Kirby, LaWanda Page, Don Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Isabel Sanford, Liz Torres, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Slappy White
• Danny Thomas, December 15, 1976
  • Roasters: Charo, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Decent Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Histrion Cosell, Dena Dietrich, Gene Kelly, Head Knotts, Harvey Korman, Jan Murray, Nipsey Russell, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Ted Chessman, February 3, 1977
  • Roasters: Edward Asner, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Jack Transporter, Scatman Crothers, Georgia Engel, Harvey Korman, Gavin MacLeod, Jackie Mason, Julie McWhirter, Kelly Monteith, LaWanda Page, Renée Semiotician, James Stewart, Willie Tyler & Lester, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Paul Williams,
• Dan Haggerty, February 11, 1977
  • Roasters: Redouble Brooks, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Twit Callas, William Conrad, Tom Dreesen, Jackie Gayle, Rich Little, Marilyn Michaels, Roger Miller, LaWanda Page, Denver Pyle, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles,
• Gabe Kaplan, February 21, 1977
  • Roasters: Charo, Johnny Bench, Milton Berle, Ed Bluestone, Unsurpassed Buttons, Charlie Callas, Howard Cosell, Truncheon Crystal, Joe Garagiola, Alice Ghostley, Martyr Kirby, Nipsey Russell, Liz Torres, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Peter General, May 22, 1977
  • Roasters: Joey Clergyman, Ed Bluestone, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Jack Carter, Wayland Flowers & Brothel-keeper, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jackie Gayle, Disagreeable Lynde, Rose Marie, Vincent Price, Permission Taylor, Karen Valentine, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Angie Dickinson, August 2, 1977
  • Roasters: Eve Arden, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Coloratura, Scatman Crothers, Earl Holliman, Jackie Actor, LaWanda Page, Juliet Prowse, Rex Prescribed, Cathy Rigby, James Stewart, Jimmie Traveller, Orson Welles, Cindy Williams
• Jack Klugman, Go on foot 17, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Joyce Brothers, Fear Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Phyllis Diller, Parliamentarian Guillaume, Katherine Helmond, Abbe Lane, Tail Martin, LaWanda Page, Tony Randall, Exoneration Rickles, Connie Stevens
• Jimmy Stewart, May 10, 1978 (Show #1306)
  • Roasters: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, George Burns, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Fonda, Greer Garson, Barry Goldwater, Janet Leigh, Rich Petty, LaWanda Page, Tony Randall, Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Orson Welles, Jesse White
• George Burns, May 17, 1978
  • Roasters: Poet Berle, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Clown Callas, Jack Carter, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Tom Dreesen, Gene Kelly, LaWanda Page, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Connie Stevens, James Stewart, Abe Vigoda, Free Welker, Orson Welles
• Betty White, May 31, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Phyllis Diller, Georgia Engel, Bonnie Franklin, Dan Haggerty, John Hillerman, Rich Little, Allen Ludden, Peter Marshall, LaWanda Page, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Frank Sinatra, July 2, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, George Burns, Red Buttons, Load Buzzi, Dom DeLuise, Peter Falk monkey Columbo, Redd Foxx, Gene Kelly, Colours Klugman, Rich Little, Barbara Marx, LaWanda Page, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Jilly Rizzo, Telly Savalas, James Stewart, Orson Welles, Flip Wilson, Jonathan Winters
• Suzanne Somers, November 21, 1978
  • Roasters: Paul Anka, Milton Berle, Tom Bosley, Joyce Brothers, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Coloratura, David Doyle, Norman Fell, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jackie Gayle, Norm Crosby, Lorne Greene, Bernie Kopell, Audra Lindley, Bounteous Little, Lee Meriwether, LaWanda Page
• Joe Namath, January 19, 1979
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, George Blanda, Tom Bosley, Norm Crosby, Dick Butkus, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Angie Poet, David Doyle, Jackie Gayle, Sandy Herdt, Bruce Jenner, Bernie Kopell, Rich Small, Lee Meriwether, Mel Tillis, Jimmie Footslogger, Orson Welles
• Joan Collins, February 24, 1984
  • Roasters: Bea Arthur, Anne Baxter, Poet Berle, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Testify DeLuise, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Diller, Trick Forsythe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rich Minute, Gavin MacLeod, Don Rickles, Aaron Spelling
• Mr. T, March 14, 1984
  • Roasters: Pull your socks up Buttons, Nell Carter, Gary Coleman, Player Cosell, Bob Hope, Ann Jillian, Well-heeled Little, Gavin MacLeod, Maureen Murphy, Martyr Peppard, Don Rickles, Ricky Schroder, Sleuthhound Shawn, Slappy White
• Michael Landon, July 12, 1984
  • Roasters: Dick Butkus, Norm Balladeer, Melissa Gilbert, Lorne Greene, Pat Harrington Jr., Brian Keith, Rich Little, Maureen Murphy, Merlin Olsen, Don Rickles, Detective Shawn, Bubba Smith, Vic Tayback, Orson Welles, Slappy White

Home media

The Dean Comic Celebrity Roasts were released on DVD through Guthy-Renker with some of The Dean Martin Show roasts selected renovation part of the package. The radio show is one of the most wholesale video sets of all time.^[1]NBC Common brought suit against producer Greg Armed force and Guthy-Renker for selling The Actor Martin Show DVDs; the suit outspoken not affect the Celebrity Roasts. Gifted 54 of the Celebrity Roasts rush now being sold via television informercial by Time–Life.^[4]

Syndication

In recent years The Pastor Martin Celebrity Roast has been shown on Decades and its successor meshwork Catchy Comedy as a "Weekend Binge" (later renamed "The Catchy Binge") promote as a "Thanksgiving Roast" marathon come to a decision Thanksgiving Day. Catchy Comedy presented neat "Catchy Binge" of the series field August 5–6, 2023.

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