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Posted on 10/29/20 at 8:47 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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If you're easily offended, you won't want to search out the audio recordings of the actual Friar's Roasts from the 60's. T
No kidding. If he’s offended by Dean Martin, Don Rickles night give him a stroke.
Posted on 10/29/20 at 9:32 pm to memphis tiger
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts didn't age well
Now you’re going to tell me that “Blazing Saddles” didn’t age well either.
These were the days when people could laugh at themselves and everybody Else and not get offended or butt hurt. We are raising a nation full of pussies!
This post was edited on 10/29/20 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 10/29/20 at 9:34 pm to BitBuster
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In this thread: A bunch of old guys living in the past pissed off at me for crapping on their teenage icons.
Sorry grandpa. The shite just isn't funny. I'm out. Continue hollering at the clouds.
Yes, the TigerDroppings M/TV board comedy threads are populated by a bunch of octogenarians who grew up idolizing Frank and Dean and the boys. You show more of your intelligence with each post. It's fine if you don't think it aged well, but
1). Dean Martin was famous for his drunk schtick. It was part of his Vegas act and TV appearances for years. Well before my time, but it's just part of American entertainment history.
2). You must not pay attention to the modern Comedy Central roasts if you don't think they'd ever tolerate racist and sexist humor, or allow guests to appear on camera visibly impaired. Check out some of those uproarious Lisa Lampanelli jokes about how she bangs black guys because they're stupid but have big dicks, but aren't as lazy as Mexicans. Really deep, nuanced humor there.
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Posted on 10/29/20 at 10:02 pm to PowerTool
OP is a twat
Posted on 10/29/20 at 11:20 pm to BitBuster
You're an idiot, and Dean was overplaying the drunk bit. That was his shtick.
Posted on 10/29/20 at 11:30 pm to BitBuster
Foster Brooks was awesome at these roasts:
Foster Brooks Roasts Sammy Davis Jr
Foster Brooks Roasts Don Rickles
Foster Brooks Roasts Sammy Davis Jr
Foster Brooks Roasts Don Rickles
Posted on 10/30/20 at 7:14 am to BitBuster
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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts didn't age well
This is old stuff. There is no reason to discuss that it was wrong because it would not be tolerated anymore. Yeah Dean Martin also appeared to be drunk on his weekly TV show. I don't know whether or not that was an act. Hollywood ain't like that anymore.
Posted on 10/30/20 at 8:10 am to BitBuster
People laughed about it then and that’s how it should be. Look at 48 hours, it’s Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte making white and black jokes about each other. People didn’t get offended, they laughed about it!
Posted on 10/30/20 at 9:09 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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There is no reason to discuss that it was wrong because it would not be tolerated anymore. Yeah Dean Martin also appeared to be drunk on his weekly TV show. I don't know whether or not that was an act. Hollywood ain't like that anymore.
Comedy Central has a show with "drunk" in the title, featuring actual drunk people.
Posted on 10/30/20 at 9:17 am to Fewer Kilometers
You fellas need to relax. Jeez. 
You'd swear I called out John Wayne.
You'd swear I called out John Wayne.
Posted on 10/30/20 at 12:36 pm to BitBuster
Well comedy has been ruined for the exact reasons you pointed out as being offensive. It’s comedy, it’s not supported to be PC in any shape or form.
Posted on 10/30/20 at 12:42 pm to BitBuster
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A bunch of old guys living in the past pissed off at me for crapping on their teenage icons.
I'm 33 and think you're a snowflake. Get a life you whore of a troll.
Posted on 10/30/20 at 1:11 pm to coolpapaboze
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Or his Satan worshipping orgies.
The general public wasn't ready for that red pill.
Posted on 10/31/20 at 10:41 am to BitBuster
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Man some of you guys are triggered. Sorry to call out your heroes. I'm merely pointing out, that while it may have been the height of comedy at its time, it doesn't work today.
It seems like, given the reaction on here, you’re wrong and are the one triggered by old jokes that have racist overtones.
Posted on 10/31/20 at 11:50 am to BitBuster
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A few years ago, I chatted with his daughter Deanna Martin, who is also a singer, about her dad. She noted that the whole "Dino" personality was a gimmick.
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"When he started to redo his nightclub act, he started at the Sands Hotel and had some writers helping him," she said. "It was like Jack Benny who had the violin thing and made fun about being cheap. Dad was so handsome, so debonair. They just thought, 'We'll put a drink in his hand and a cigarette.' Every man wanted to be him, and every woman wanted to be with him."
The truth of the matter, she said, was her father was swigging apple juice and not liquor when he performed. "He would be home for dinner every night," Martin said. "He would come home, and he and mom would have their one cocktail at the bar. He was kind. He was so different from what everybody thought he was. There was no one who could do Dean Martin better than Dean Martin."
LINK
FWIW he had a sad end, but it wasn't the drinking. His son was an Air Force pilot who died in a training accident. It broke his heart.
Posted on 10/31/20 at 12:27 pm to Mo Jeaux
You realize that Dean was aleays in character in those things?
Posted on 10/31/20 at 1:03 pm to BitBuster
Haven't seen any Dean Martin roasts in ages, so I wouldn't know how they hold up today.
That said, if you were sitting on that dais, it usually meant you had some kind of close connection with the person being roasted. Conversley, the Comedy Central roasts of today are loaded with hired snipers taking down people they never met before. Not saying it isn't funny, but I'd argue it's a much less personal vibe than the Dean Martin roasts...
That said, if you were sitting on that dais, it usually meant you had some kind of close connection with the person being roasted. Conversley, the Comedy Central roasts of today are loaded with hired snipers taking down people they never met before. Not saying it isn't funny, but I'd argue it's a much less personal vibe than the Dean Martin roasts...
Posted on 10/31/20 at 2:20 pm to Mo Jeaux
You realize that Dean was aleays in character in those things?
Posted on 10/31/20 at 8:56 pm to KiwiHead
The roasts hold up very well. They were hilarious then and they are hilarious now. All those guys on the dais knew each other well. They were old Hollywood and tv stars who worked together A LOT because there were only 3 tv networks instead of 400.
Their humor was not PC but it wasn't vulgar. Mostly they ripped on each other and laughed their asses off.
I'm an early Gen X so I barely remember watching the shows but have them on video and watch on youtube.
Their humor was not PC but it wasn't vulgar. Mostly they ripped on each other and laughed their asses off.
I'm an early Gen X so I barely remember watching the shows but have them on video and watch on youtube.
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