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Bob Saget Roast

jhunter46jhunter46 Registered User regular
edited August 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Did anyone catch this?

It was pretty funny, but Cloris Leachman and Norm McDonald took the cake.

Norm was so off with his jokes, I wonder if half of the audience really got it. It's obvious that the other comedians loved it though.

http://videogum.com/archives/stand-up-comedy/norm-macdonalds-genius-roast-of-bob-saget_015201.html?utm_source=tm&utm_medium=videogum

It was also a pleasure to see Cloris Leachman, I think a lot of comedians today don't appreciate actual comedy, maybe this is the Carlos Mencia effect.

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  • Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    I couldn't understand why they were roasting Bob Saget. There are infinitely more deserving comics than that unfunny, juvenile hack.

    But yeah, Norm was great. Jim Norton was more entertaining than he usually is.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Supposedly Saget in standup, divorced from his insipid Full House alter-ego, is hilarious.

    I've yet to see him.

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    edited August 2008
    I like Bob Saget.

    Hippie, this is the last straw. I'm filing for divorce. You can have the car and the house, but I'm taking the Pekingese! I picked out Truffles and you know she was my dog from day one!

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Supposedly Saget in standup, divorced from his insipid Full House alter-ego, is hilarious.

    I've yet to see him.
    Yea, he works extremely blue though so I can see calling him "juvenile" with some merit.

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  • geckahngeckahn Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wonder_Hippie wrote: »
    I couldn't understand why they were roasting Bob Saget. There are infinitely more deserving comics than that unfunny, juvenile hack.

    But yeah, Norm was great. Jim Norton was more entertaining than he usually is.

    It's a comedy central roast. They really don't care if the comic in question is particularly deserving.

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  • zekebeauzekebeau Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Even if you don't like Saget, at least this time they roasted a comedian. Flava Flav, William Shatner, Pam Anderson: these people don't belong at a roast.

    Also, Saget roasters seemed to understand the concept of the roast. You have your friends come and give you some shit, in fun. It seemed like they all knew and respected Saget, and that made the roast better than any I've seen for a while.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Oh Norm Macdonald. How I love you.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    The Rebecca Romain-O'Connel line was particularly evil and funny.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yeah, I mean- they roasted Flavor Flav and Pam freaking Anderson for some stupid reason.

    This sort of shit was funny when Dean Martin was hosting the Friar's Club Roasts... but CC has basically usurped a grand comedy tradition for name recognition.

    LAME.

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  • Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    Hey now, Shatner is perfectly deserving of a roast. I don't necessarily like him, but he's made more people laugh than Saget ever did with his shitty stand-up.

    And Feral, take your god damned shit machine before I hang him by that insipid neckerchief you insist on making him wear.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wonder_Hippie wrote: »
    Hey now, Shatner is perfectly deserving of a roast. I don't necessarily like him, but he's made more people laugh than Saget ever did with his shitty stand-up.

    And Feral, take your god damned shit machine before I hang him by that insipid neckerchief you insist on making him wear.

    Can you not fight in front of the kids? You're giving them a complex.

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  • A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    When he wears a hat!

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    edited August 2008
    Wonder_Hippie wrote: »
    And Feral, take your god damned shit machine before I hang him by that insipid neckerchief you insist on making him wear.

    That's not a neckerchief, that's a bandana. It shows he's from the streets! Nortenos 4 lyfe, yo!

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    This show was freaking hilarious. And frankly, Saget is infinately more deserving of it then Pamela Anderson and *shudder* Flav a Flav...

    and they kept cutting to shots of the girl who played Stephanie on Full House, and she got incredibly hot.

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  • ProtoProto Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I can barely watch that Norm part. So uncomfortably bad.

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  • kdrudykdrudy Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Norm was pretty great, there are few people that could've pulled off that routine the way he did. It's like what the MST3K guys said about their constant obscure references, the right people will get them.


    And Cloris Leachman, wow, "Just me and the donkey", she can be pretty hilarious.

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I wish Jon Lovitz had been funny... but then, I wish a lot of things. THe only person you can consistantly count on for this stuff is Greg Geraldo. He should be way more famous then he is.

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  • Wonder_HippieWonder_Hippie __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    I'm just going to say that just because Comedy Central has roasted some horrible failures of humanity, it doesn't suddenly make Saget worthy. Dave Chappelle would have been a roast-worthy comic more up their alley, but really, he's actual Friar's Club material.

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  • nosnibornosnibor Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Here's the question: is Norm really that bad, or was he just doing a brilliant impression of a terrible comic? He reminded me of really bad Letterman, where the "comic" tells a stupid joke, gets no response, makes a face, then repeats the punchline in case nobody heard it.

    As a whole, though, the show was enjoyable. Certainly better than some others they've had.

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  • NocturneNocturne Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Proto wrote: »
    I can barely watch that Norm part. So uncomfortably bad.

    You failed to catch the comedy.
    nosnibor wrote: »
    Here's the question: is Norm really that bad, or was he just doing a brilliant impression of a terrible comic? He reminded me of really bad Letterman, where the "comic" tells a stupid joke, gets no response, makes a face, then repeats the punchline in case nobody heard it.

    He was doing the latter. Especially in the forum of a roast, that routine was brilliant and hilarious.

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  • OctoparrotOctoparrot Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Nocturne wrote: »
    Proto wrote: »
    I can barely watch that Norm part. So uncomfortably bad.

    You failed to catch the comedy.

    No kidding. Normally those roasts (Hugh Hefner??) are full of the same tired old shit. Norm's bit was the first time I cried laughing (cried period) in as long as I can remember.

    But I'm a big fan of Yakov Smirnoff, so take from that what you will.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    nosnibor wrote: »
    Here's the question: is Norm really that bad, or was he just doing a brilliant impression of a terrible comic? He reminded me of really bad Letterman, where the "comic" tells a stupid joke, gets no response, makes a face, then repeats the punchline in case nobody heard it.

    As a whole, though, the show was enjoyable. Certainly better than some others they've had.

    That's the joke.

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  • GooeyGooey (\/)┌¶─¶┐(\/) pinch pinchRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Norm MacDonald is hilarious and if you think otherwise you are wrong.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That was good Gooey. Thank you may I have another?

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  • SamSam Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Supposedly Saget in standup, divorced from his insipid Full House alter-ego, is hilarious.

    I've yet to see him.

    I don't know about that but his guest spot on Entourage was hilarious.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    norm was great, he was the only act I could remember as stand out, although Chloris was quite good and I thought Jim Norton was actually better than usual, even as a fan of his.

    Greg Geraldo was worse than I expected, I generally like his stuff.

    edit - Saget's far far far from the best out there but he's not awful, and he's not just a "lol curses are funny" guy.

    also gilbert godfried or however the fuck you spell it was pretty on his game.

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  • Der Waffle MousDer Waffle Mous Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. New Yark, New Yark.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    And now he's a beaver.

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  • RaynagaRaynaga Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Proto wrote: »
    I can barely watch that Norm part. So uncomfortably bad.

    You didn't get it.

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  • nosnibornosnibor Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Now that I know for sure what Norm was doing, I still don't find it very funny. It just isn't my kind of humor.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    nosnibor wrote: »
    Now that I know for sure what Norm was doing, I still don't find it very funny. It just isn't my kind of humor.

    What do you enjoy? I need to get inside of that head of yours. . .

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  • nosnibornosnibor Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DasUberEdward wrote: »
    nosnibor wrote: »
    Now that I know for sure what Norm was doing, I still don't find it very funny. It just isn't my kind of humor.

    What do you enjoy? I need to get inside of that head of yours. . .

    Well, I don't enjoy "make a face, repeat stupid punchline" humor (aka the Letterman shtick), if that's what you mean.

    As for comedy I do enjoy, there's Bill Hicks, Stephen Wright, George Carlin. I'm sure there are others, but I don't watch a whole lot of stand-up.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    nosnibor wrote: »
    Now that I know for sure what Norm was doing, I still don't find it very funny. It just isn't my kind of humor.
    Eh. I understood what he was doing but that kind of meta-humor really only works for me if I believe you could actually be funny. Norm has always thought he was funnier than he is and too often he would throw jokes out that were only half finished.

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  • B:LB:L I've done worse. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    Eh. I understood what he was doing but that kind of meta-humor really only works for me if I believe you could actually be funny.

    Well we know Norm is actually a funny guy so maybe you should believe.

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    B:L wrote: »
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    Eh. I understood what he was doing but that kind of meta-humor really only works for me if I believe you could actually be funny.

    Well we know Norm is actually a funny guy so maybe you should believe.

    I see him and I have flashbacks of his SNL news reading which was some of the worst on that series.

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  • TarantioTarantio Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    B:L wrote: »
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    Eh. I understood what he was doing but that kind of meta-humor really only works for me if I believe you could actually be funny.

    Well we know Norm is actually a funny guy so maybe you should believe.

    I see him and I have flashbacks of his SNL news reading which was some of the worst on that series.

    Did you see the guy who replaced him?

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  • DevoutlyApatheticDevoutlyApathetic Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Tarantio wrote: »
    Did you see the guy who replaced him?
    I freely admit I stopped watching it before then.

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  • Salvation122Salvation122 Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Norm is really best when he's riffing on other people's stuff. Alone, he's good, but not outstanding.

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  • RaynagaRaynaga Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    B:L wrote: »
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    Eh. I understood what he was doing but that kind of meta-humor really only works for me if I believe you could actually be funny.

    Well we know Norm is actually a funny guy so maybe you should believe.

    I see him and I have flashbacks of his SNL news reading which was some of the worst on that series.

    Chevy Chase disagrees with you.

    And he kinda established the role.

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  • B:LB:L I've done worse. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    B:L wrote: »
    DevoutlyApathetic wrote: »
    Eh. I understood what he was doing but that kind of meta-humor really only works for me if I believe you could actually be funny.

    Well we know Norm is actually a funny guy so maybe you should believe.

    I see him and I have flashbacks of his SNL news reading which was some of the worst on that series.

    Maybe if you believed you'd flashback instead to his SNL celebrity Jeopardy performance as Turd Ferguson.

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  • AbsoluteZeroAbsoluteZero The new film by Quentin Koopantino Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Back in the day you had to be a God to get roasted.

    Now I guess all you have to do is suck.

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