You have to be a good sport to be roasted by fellow celebs.
Scratch that – Donald Trump was once roasted, and so was Steve Hofmeyr, so you have to be a good sport or desperate for any kind of attention and validation.
I feel like Bruce Willis falls into the ‘good sport’ category, and his recent Comedy Central Roast was a typically brutal affair.
We are going to start with Dennis Rodman, who took a break from weeping on CNN to get in a few shots.
Dennis, do your worst:
So, about those shots – this via NewsAU:
…Comedy Central cut some of the former basketball player’s segment, [and] the network also may have cut some of the reported boos that happened during his set…
According to reports, Rodman was described as being incoherent and going off on odd tangents.
Um, I think that’s called being Dennis Rodman.
Then there’s roastmaster Jeff Ross:
Yes, you know Demi was there, too:
Martha Stewart in the house:
I have no idea who Nikki Glaser is, but she let the tiger out of the cage:
Joseph, do your best:
He’s too nice, but nowhere near as nice as Edward bloody Norton:
Pretty sure that’s Edward’s last roast appearance, but then he has an actual career to return to so I’m sure he’ll be OK.
Too long, didn’t watch? Fine, here are five of the best burns of the night, according to Vulture:
Martha Stewart: “If you had told me back in the ’90s that Dennis Rodman would be negotiating a nuclear arms agreement in 2018 I would have said, ‘Dennis Rodman is alive in 2018?’”
Nikki Glaser: “Bruce has been very active with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which is where they make sick kids meet you so that dying doesn’t seem so terrible.”
Jeff Ross (to Willis): “I met Rumer, your daughter. I guess that’s the name your mom gives you when she’s not 100 percent sure who your father is.”
Demi Moore: “I remember when Bruce got cast in Pulp Fiction. He went to Harvey Weinstein’s hotel one night and came back the next morning saying ‘I got the part!'”
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: “Bruce Willis is what you get if you isolate the white part of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson”.
Cool man.
Let’s end with a throwback to Andy Samberg’s roast of James Franco – sooo many burns:
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