I love these roasts. This one is, if I should be fair, funny at times. Some roasters really hit it hard.
However, here are my problems with this roast:
1. This isn't exactly a roast if all the jokes jabbed at the roastee is just "how handsome" he looks(sucking up much), him being a terrible actor yet still have landed tons of acting jobs, despite having some eventually canceled(more arse-kissing in the disguise of a roast, landing jobs=money/fame, clearly what these people on the show mostly care about), Rob's womanizing(he got away with it, the roasters mocked him for it, but in a "you nailed them, you pig" kinda salute).
2. I don't know who the host is. Same could be said about pretty much everyone on the dais. But David Spade is one of the worst hosts this series has to suffer through. Compared to other hosts, he's surprisingly unpleasant: egotistic, so much so that he seemed offended/disinterested in what is being said about him or pretty much everyone else.
I mean, Joseph Levitt wasn't a funny host, but you could see he was trying hard.
3. Jeffery Ross. I'd always liked him as a roaster until this episode. I've seen him pull off some crazy stunts playing hideous dress-up. The Charlie Sheen one was kinda of bad taste too. But this one is purely disgusting. Granted it's for laughs, but him dressing up like a bloated blueberry while handling sleazy lingerie girls posed in degrading manners is murdering my eyes.
4. I don't know who Ann Coulter is. And I had no political agenda watching this roast. But couple of minutes in, it became plain obvious that everyone was ganging up on her in such a mean-spirited, and malicious way, that is far beyond the realm of a good-humored roast.
During Nikki's & Ross's roast of Ann, the latter could be seen shivering. The woman seemed mortified. I don't know what Ann's done exactly, but comparing someone you don't like or hate to Hitler is a bit of a cheap shot, isn't it? Unless Ann really has something that evil, she didn't deserve a whole evening of sheer abuse. What I did notice, is that Ann seems to have gathered hate for being a Trump supporter. But wait a minute. Trump was a roastee just few years back. He got away with it with barely a scratch(they went for his hair, his money/power/women, being a nepo-baby..hardly hurt..). No one attacked his political leanings. They praised him as "The king of NY". Where's the inconsistency?
The other female roasters: Jewel, Nikki, were extremely harsh to Ann. Jewel skipped the majority of the roasters but spent a huge chunk of her stage time ripping Ann a new one.
I know Ross interacted with other roasters normally during roast. But in this case, he was clearly enjoying Ann's painful frozen expression looking back at her after several viscous attacks had been launched.
And for the first time in roast history had a roaster got genuinely aggressive after hearing a joke about themselves and started cursing out loud, PETE DAVIDSON. Class act all the way.
When some of them called Ann a C-word during a roast though, it didn't feel like a joke. They really meant it. Jimmy Carr actually told her to "kill herself".
It made me feel like watching a school bullying, and everyone cheering on for more more moooore blood.
This farce is a rat race among these self-grandiose crowd-pleasing hatred-filled whatever trying to get popular by crapping on the unpopular. Anytime anyone said anything nasty about Ann, they would surely generate applause.
The bottom line is, "you only roast the one you love", but there's no love for Ann that night. Why even invite her in the first place?
And when it was Ann's turn on stage, she got booed or complete deadpan silence for jokes that, if said by another roaster would probably get some laughs. Funny how people can be so two-faced. It's like starring at hypocrisy right in the face.
One last little thing, so all of a sudden those who advocate treating women with respect could just gang up on one woman as long as they could precariously brand her a Hitler?
Have we really come to this?
P. S. Couldn't care less if this down down-voted if this is the society that we are living in now.
