Roast of Denis Leary on Comedy Central

[Mockery]

Originally Posted by El Blanco

The Penzoil commentisn't so much of a zing because Leary never went verbally postal on giant corporations. He never tried to build himself as a disgruntled hippy.

No shit. He's done a shitload of good anyway, especially when it came to promoting the Cam Neely foundation.

Originally Posted by El Blanco

Isn't Conan O'Brien Leary's cousin?

Wouldn't surprise me, they always joke about their Irish heritage together.

[Professor Cool]

Carlin cant get roasted because thomas the tank engine

I like Dennis, especially the fact that he can make someone like colin quinn funny.

And yes he is Conan's cousin.

[mburbank]

Leary's got chops.

I am glad that it only took half a dozen roasts for Comedy Central to realize celebrities being roasted by people they've never even met isn't very funny. That's a pretty quick learning curve for those cretins. Is John Stewart going to be there? They can be very funny about each other, especially since Stewart said he'd do Leary's reality show and then backed out and then Leary's reality showed hoovered massively.


But Steven Colbert is my current favorite guy comedian.

[whoreable]

Steven Colbert is so fucking awesome. It really pains me that he doesnt have any of his own standup specials, but then again I guess he is not a stand up kinda guy.

[Zebra 3]

Originally Posted by El Blanco

He did more than observational humor. Asshole is a great song.

- I totally agree, Asshole is a great song!

- I didn't have access to the roast - from what I understand, at least one part was censored for the U.S. broadcast, but was free of censorship for the European broadcast.

[Mockery]

Originally Posted by mburbank

Leary's got chops.

I am glad that it only took half a dozen roasts for Comedy Central to realize celebrities being roasted by people they've never even met isn't very funny. That's a pretty quick learning curve for those cretins. Is John Stewart going to be there? They can be very funny about each other, especially since Stewart said he'd do Leary's reality show and then backed out and then Leary's reality showed hoovered massively.

Yeah, Stewart is going to be there. I loved that reality show too, I wish it was on longer. The cop show on ABC or whatever wasn't that great though...

Originally Posted by mburbank

But Steven Colbert is my current favorite guy comedian.

Yeah, he's definitely the man right now. Probably my favorite at the moment too.

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Patton Oswalt is still the best.

[mburbank]

Colbert is more of a Character Monologist, like Eric Bogosian. He played mseveral differnt characters in Wigsville, and he was completely awesome. No costumes, just him, but each time he was a completely different person, and it's a shame you don't get to see his range on the Daily Show or even in Strangers, where he was amazing, but only played the one character.

[Mockery]

Some funny moments, but overall, I think they were too nice to Leary. :/ Am I think only one who thought so?

[El Blanco]

I thought it was a Friar's Club roast. Where was Alan King?

And Colin Quinn has some funny jokes, but his delivery is so awful that it kils any humor whatso ever.

There were some great moments, though. Ferrara and Dipoalo killed.

[Esuohlim]

Not a Frair's Club Roast. It wasn't hilarious, but it was still worth watching.

Dane Cook and the priest guy, in my opinion, were the funniest. Especially Dane Cook's line about tipping Ed Lover and Dr. Dre when they bring your car around front for you.

But Denis Leary's final statements made the whole thing worth it.

And they're going to show the damn roast another 30 times by next Sunday and I'll be sick of it.

[El Blanco]

"Fuck the Kennedys! Vote for Lenny!"

[Protoclown]

It was amusing but pretty tame.

The worst part was when that fuckhead Jimmy Breuer showed up

[Professor Cool]

I wanted to see conan rip into him.

It was ok, yet they could of did alot worse.

[Cap'n Crunch]

I only saw about the first hour, and laughed a little, but I thought it kinda blew. I'll watch the other half probably today, cause Comedy Central is going to loop it over for a week now.

I thought they were ripping the fat ass guy more than Dennis Leary.

[timrpgland]

I wish Walken was there in person. It was pretty funny but not exactly what I was hoping for. What I enjoyed more were the reruns of his stand up specials.

[Mockery]

I wish Walken was there in person.

"Mushpie"

[kellychaos]

Walken's comments were "phoned in" via live telecast and came off kind of flat. I was very disappointed. Ferrara was pretty good. I didn't get to see the whole thing, though. :/

[Comrade Rocket]

Man that sucked.

The funniest parts, Dane Cook, the Preist, and Leary's rebutle.

Most of the roasters that I looked forward to being there had a recorded segment.

And why was Hurley there (to look good)

On Tough Crowd they said that there going to Roast Colin Quinn next. How many more Remote control jokes can we stand?

[Esuohlim]

Am I the only one that fucking hates Colin Quinn?

[Ninjavenom]

Correction: Am I the only one who doesn't?

[Zbu Manowar]

Colin Quinn is like cheap beer: it might be good upon first viewing but after it's the shits.

[sspadowsky]

El Blanco: I was initially pissed at Carlin for the 10-10-220 thing, but I realized, if the IRS was climbing up my ass for $300,000+ that I owed them, I'd probably loosen my convictions a bit, too.

[O71394658]

I thought the Priest was the funniest... :/

[kellychaos]

Not that there weren't some others but Collin Quinn soooo obviously read from his notes that it was irritating. He barely lifted his face from the page. He used to do that a lot on SNL when he was the comedy news anchor. Thank God the teleprompter was able to save a little embarrassment, huh? For his sake, I hope he's a better comedy writer.