The only thing thicker in the air than the cigarette smoke and packing a bigger kick than the cocktails were the insults. “The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts” celebrated the art of the put-down, but ...

If you’re not familiar with Jeff Ross, he is best known as the “Roastmaster General” — a three-decade master of the savage comic sport introduced by the Friars Club in the 1950s, in which a procession ...

Comedy Central executive Elizabeth Porter on pushing the envelope at those raunchy celebrity roasts. William Shatner, David Hasselhoff, Flavor Flav and Pamela Anderson are a handful of the people ...

There’s no better guilty pleasure then Comedy Central Roasts. Comedy Central took the tried and true format of the roast, popularized by the Friars club inductions of celebrities, and made it palpable ...

The funnyman, now starring in a one-man Broadway show 'Take a Banana for the Ride,' opens up to PEOPLE about his 30 years as the master of celebrity roasts Jeff Ross' one-man show, Take a Banana for ...

When the United Way of the Tanana Valley sat down to choose its honoree for the 10th Annual Fairbanks Funny Fest’s Comedy Roast, the choice was obvious. Few people embody the rare combination of humor ...

Comedy Central exec Elizabeth Porter on those raunchy celebrity roasts, which are meant to be outrageous and raunchy, but most of all utterly hilarious.