That was such a wonderful "blast from the past". Now that is comedy!!What a great bunch, and how sad that so many of them are gone. Truly, an era gone by.
@maureenmo1 well at least there's YouTube, maureenmo1. I'm 24 and I'm a NOSTALGIC person, I like old music, old shows and old movies. And I agree REALITY TV is crap. REPLY BACK, maureenmo1.
I think what loyalgers meant (above) was: "these men knew how to deliver comedy without appearing crude and vulgar."
People talk more crudely because life is less crude. This is basic human-nature stuff, folks. Sorry to bust your "golden age" bologna bubble. Things have seldom been better... only flawed memory makes it appear otherwise.
This was the golden age of smoking on tv. People used to have a good time until the threat of cancer caused everyone to quit smoking. Stupid dumb people chose to stop smoking instead of curing cancer. Bad mistake!
@SonoVox100 well there are comedy roasts out there, SonoVox100, but TIMES HAVE CHANGED, dude. they use vulgar and profanity to change with the times. REPLY BACK.
@kimv020887 not sure what you're reacting to? I was replying to the poster that said they knew how to deliver comedy without being crude. What i was saying is they were just as crude back then too. Personally, I have no problem with the vulgarity.
Well here's my two cents about us kids that feel as if we're born in the wrong era. We USED to be alive back then but we were reincarnated, rotated back to the world, and put in these times. I would go back if I could because the world now is bland, but we cant go back. We can change what's in front of us though. If you want something done, go do it don't wait, cause by the time you look up, its already too late.
I agree! I don't understand with all the talent in this country that we can not find good comedy like Dean Martin and Johnny Carson. There is a big void in late night entertainment now. I think Robin Williams should be the Tonight Show host..he is sincerely funny and quick on his feet.
whats sad is that most of these guys are dead now! minus Winters and Newhart! i used to love to watch Johnny Carson show when i was a kid! good times!
these are the real gentleman...just pioneers and hilarious! so sick of you guys comparing comedians and shit...look.. news flash people...TIMES HAVE CHANGED IS A EVOLUTION DEAL WITH IT...
Never thought they would stop people from smoking like they have but boy does it look strange to see all them lighting up!!! I remember when you could light a cigarette in a hospital and stamp the butt out in the floor!!! How times have changed!!!!!!
my father has very similer humour to these guys..so ive been brought up with this around me all my life....and when i go out and behave in the way these guys do people think im weird...im also sick of comics these days ...but also people in general ,its just not like the old days
ippster1 and TenderTrap86 are perfect examples of how every generation will trash later generations and glorify their own. But that also means that generations before them thrashed the generation(s) the two of them belong to. They also had the likes of Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and others who were considered "obnoxious" and "disgusting" by many small-minded, uptight a-holes. So many comedians from the 50's-70's, even the 80's, were so whitebread, corny & afraid to be topical.
I remember watching these. These were wonderful and extremely funny. Get a kick, now, of seeing them smoking on the dais!!!! Don't know if I even missed one. Foster Brooks just killed me!! LOL I would love to buy the DVD set of all the roasts (51, last one in 1984 for Michael Landon); and I just may order them very soon!!
its amazing how hysterical these guys were without having to resort to using any foul language! --Todays comedieans every other word outta their mouth is F*CK!
OH MY GOD dean martin iz my new inspiration i wanna cry just known i wuznt raised at dis time todayz comedy aint even comedy i kall it more like teenage lives that nobody gives a shit bout but wow i really wish i wuz born at this time with dean martin and them oh my god ='(
@PsychicStoner Well put Psychic. People complain too much. Each generation has great musicans and comedians, and each generation has garbage as well. But always harping about the "Good ol' days, and that EVERYTHING today sucks, well, you're just a tired old crank. Wake up. And I'm no spring chicken. I'll be 43 soon.
but he was a bit of an intellectual and loved having capote and gore vidal , 2 great writers and true brilliant men,on his show and would go out to dinner with both.
his last wife was trumans best friend late in his life.
i rofld at jonathan winters one and when the good senator came and said guest hosting his tv show is an honor which comes to every american sometime. its like jury duty. rofl madddddd
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Is Carson still alive? He was always part of the furniture in UK even though we never saw him - we always heard of him for very many years in movies etc..
RIP Deano, Capote, Burns, and all those classy funny dead guys
I know exactly what you mean. My family did too just like yours. We all watch Carson together. Then one day everything chanced without him. People got used to being pit to sleep by Carson.
Why are they bringing leno back, he failed with me. Geez Conan numbers must have been really bad to become so desperate as to have to bring back the loud, not mild manner, lacks sophistcation and education Jay Leno, the Italian meatball with no taste in his own mouth.
They just not found the right replacement for Carson. Leno is too not funny and not educated well enough, and lacks a sophisticated character that Carson had, leno is just too loud and not at all mild manner, letterman is just a waste of time, he just wants to be politically positioned and smash the political party that isn't his, lettermann is just not humorous, he makes his political views known more than he has funny material.
I still miss Johnny on the tonight show, it hasn't been the same since he left.
Many happy memories watching that show with my Mom and Dad and little brothers for so many years. It always makes me smile thinking of him and those times.
lycolovelies: No you don't have to be over 50 to know who these people are, you just need a close family unit of parents & grandparents who would have found it important enough to have shared this great entertainment with each successive generation:)
@lycolovelies Huh? I know every single person up there and I'm only 38. I grew up watching these people. I also know the generation of celebrities preceding this one like Bogart, Jean Harlow, Errol Flynn, etc. Most had died years before I was born. I guess it comes down to personal interests/tastes. I know a few shallow people who don't even know much about their own generation. They're aware of only the most popular and ubiquitous celebrities, films and music.
this is by far one of the best singers from the old days i love. i'm 37 and have almost all of his music. i think is best movie role was rio bravo. there's a great scene were dean and ricky nelson sing togather in the movie that stands the test of time. what a great voice he had
Classic stuff...but the funniest one to me was Johnny himself. I know he probably had writers write his jokes, but they were the funniest ones to me. Loved all the guests though. Thanks for sharing !!!
Check out what he says at the end of his speech....about roasting a dude. Classic, but, if anyone told that joke now, there would be rioting in the streets.
True. The Dean Martin roasts were "public", and were aired on television. The Friar's Club roasts, on the other hand, were "private", and contained vulgarity and profanity.
But still, I am inclined to think that even the Friar's Club roasts were funnier than any of the crap that comes out of Comedy Central. Comedy today as a genre is in a different league than what is was in the 1970s. I would like to see a group of people today try to "top" these guys. Which chances are, won't happen.
These roasts were just as vulgar as the roasts today. They had the "public" roast, and the "private" roast...the private roasts were off the chain, they used EVERY cuss word in the book.
Nowadays it's just right up front.
And the OLD WOMEN who are complaining here, if they don't like vulgar comedy...?...should go watch "Touched By An Angel" and shut the hell up.
I have to agree with you Ippster. It seems that today's comedians don't have the wit or intelligence to keep audiences laughing at their seats. They have no distinct ability or unique trait, they just follow like sheep and hope to get better deals when they see them. Most comedians these days are the same, they don't really have anything new to offer. In general, they don't have a clue.
The Dean Martin Roasts, on the other hand, had real actors. They knew what they were doing, and it shows.
today's comedians are not really funny, they are more obnoxious than anything else. I wish they really would watch some of these clips and learn something from them. These are funny, I don't waste my time watching the roast on Comedy Central, they are just awful, no humor, nothing funny at all, they are not comedians as much as foul mouthed wannabes.
@ippster1 i must agree with you, most comady now is just bashing on something that someone did, of corse i was never in the era, sense i was too young, i miss monty python type humer, the nonsense but at the same time we can relect, now ive only looked up this stuff becues i saw it on tv XD but i know it will be good becues it has the greatest comady minds of the decaid
@ippster1 sooo true man i really cant find any comedians nowadays that have any talent. my gfs whole family is into dane cook. ive never heard a more obnoxious comedian in my life. all he does is scream and im suppose to think this is funny. the only one i can find who is still good is ron white. o well always have the classics :)
Has anyone ever noticed how charming any of these old school comedians are when they are just talking off the cuff, whether it's here or a talk show? Most of today's comics are totally disgusting and are usually not that funny when they are just talking freely.
Wow, George Burns...AWESOME! I bet 99.99% of all kids today, sadly, couldn't even tell you that he was a comedian, because they simply don't care for actual GOOD humor like in all the roasts that Martin did. Take today's roasts on Comedy Central these days...all of them, AWFUL!
Look at all of em smokin'. Its wonderful isn't it.
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Back in the days when stars had class and cars had fins.
onebaud1 4 weeks ago
Letterman, Leno, Kimmel, Ferguson et al keep on truckin; cuz, there aint nothing like the real thing!
JimMLINY 1 month ago
That was such a wonderful "blast from the past". Now that is comedy!!What a great bunch, and how sad that so many of them are gone. Truly, an era gone by.
TheFrauline01 2 months ago
this is a roast everyone is drunk smoking cigarettes and having a good ol' time
arkbishopbonkerboy 3 months ago
lol this is good so much better than today
SicilianGunner 4 months ago 2
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man this is so dated and not funny. Just shows how much has changed.
ThePooppantsman 4 months ago in playlist comedy - ROAST
We have no real "characters" anymore.
Everyone is from the same cookie-cutter, so it seems. Dull and predictable.
cheeriosinabowl 5 months ago
the good old days...AND celebrities. gone down hill since then. WOW
maozacfan8 5 months ago 2
Is that an old Mac sound at 0:31?
reconelement 5 months ago
Love the shows of the 50's, & 60's
MsCmt1985 5 months ago
@maureenmo1 well at least there's YouTube, maureenmo1. I'm 24 and I'm a NOSTALGIC person, I like old music, old shows and old movies. And I agree REALITY TV is crap. REPLY BACK, maureenmo1.
kimv020887 6 months ago
@generalbullmoose well times have changed, generalbullmoose. THEY JUST USE EXPLICIT WORDS NOW to MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH. Get over it, dude. REPLY BACK.
kimv020887 6 months ago
@onebaud don't say bring them back becuz they are dead. BUT THEY LIVE IN OUR HEARTS, onebaud. REPLY BACK.
kimv020887 6 months ago
I honestly loved these guy;s.Times were so good back then.
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now thats entertainment...
6dubl5321 7 months ago
now thats entertainment...
6dubl5321 7 months ago
Dean's intro's were Gold. What a Pro! and friggin hysterical!
aitraining 8 months ago
that 39 people I dont understand what there are doing here?
ikkeryger 8 months ago
10:12 was that serious? Because racism was still quite large then...
Chobification 8 months ago
they could smoke anywhere in those days
DeadJesus100 8 months ago
Punk'd with style and grace...yeahh....i'm a cusser but I recognized ingenuity and wit when i see them.
soulwrappin 9 months ago
great stuff thanks for the upload
nymets86ful 9 months ago
I think what loyalgers meant (above) was: "these men knew how to deliver comedy without appearing crude and vulgar."
People talk more crudely because life is less crude. This is basic human-nature stuff, folks. Sorry to bust your "golden age" bologna bubble. Things have seldom been better... only flawed memory makes it appear otherwise.
And yes... those were talented people.
jmonroe64 9 months ago
I miss all these people so much. I want them back!
onebaud 10 months ago
@onebaud THEY ARE ALERADY DEAD, YOU IDIOT. They are deceased, onebaud. REPLY BACK.
kimv020887 6 months ago
Times have changed people, get over it already.
queenzlink247 10 months ago
oh dean...how we miss you...one of the best entertainers to ever grace the stage or screen. rip mr. martin.
juggalo4lifewickedz 10 months ago 2
This was the golden age of smoking on tv. People used to have a good time until the threat of cancer caused everyone to quit smoking. Stupid dumb people chose to stop smoking instead of curing cancer. Bad mistake!
onebaud 11 months ago
This was great stuff. Now they can't hardly do stuff without genitalia & bodily function jokes any more. Wish we could bring these days back.
generalbullmoose 11 months ago
There are no roasts like this anymore. These men knew how to deliver comedy without being crude and vulgar.
loyalgers1965 11 months ago 52
@loyalgers1965 These were cleaned up for TV, the true friars roasts back then would make a sailor blush.
SonoVox100 7 months ago
@SonoVox100 well there are comedy roasts out there, SonoVox100, but TIMES HAVE CHANGED, dude. they use vulgar and profanity to change with the times. REPLY BACK.
kimv020887 6 months ago
@kimv020887 not sure what you're reacting to? I was replying to the poster that said they knew how to deliver comedy without being crude. What i was saying is they were just as crude back then too. Personally, I have no problem with the vulgarity.
SonoVox100 6 months ago
@SonoVox100 TIMES HAD CHANGED, dude.
kimv020887 6 months ago
Nice to see Martin Milner in there
paramedicEmergency51 11 months ago
what a classic comedy clip. i love it.
DougCameraMan 1 year ago
Well here's my two cents about us kids that feel as if we're born in the wrong era. We USED to be alive back then but we were reincarnated, rotated back to the world, and put in these times. I would go back if I could because the world now is bland, but we cant go back. We can change what's in front of us though. If you want something done, go do it don't wait, cause by the time you look up, its already too late.
BabylonGenocide149 1 year ago
Good job, mate, thanks for sharing.
imjspaceman 1 year ago
I agree! I don't understand with all the talent in this country that we can not find good comedy like Dean Martin and Johnny Carson. There is a big void in late night entertainment now. I think Robin Williams should be the Tonight Show host..he is sincerely funny and quick on his feet.
catholicfuck 1 year ago 2
everyones smoking. soo cool!
i swear i would go back to my old habit if i was in the company of those fine gentlemen
19dec1981 1 year ago
whats sad is that most of these guys are dead now! minus Winters and Newhart! i used to love to watch Johnny Carson show when i was a kid! good times!
jusaLOSER 1 year ago
Dean Martin Roasts were the quinessential of comedy and laughter. Nothing comes close to these great comedians of the past.
YOU2UUB 1 year ago
The new raosts on comedy central are nowhere near as good as these ones
mercuryrulz 1 year ago 2
@mercuryrulz I disagree with you, dude.
kimv020887 6 months ago
@kimv020887 Since geraldo died I dont think they will be as funny.....he like made those roasts
mercuryrulz 6 months ago
@mercuryrulz well times HAVE changed.
kimv020887 6 months ago
way to go george
jackson967 1 year ago
guys, type gift into adress bar before youtube
PrestonBernardGalla 1 year ago
wow, these jokes are soo much cleaner, listen turn on a comedy central roast see how dirty it is
kyleheitzwebel 1 year ago 9
39 of these people were laughing so hard they hit the dislike button
elmiguelo16 1 year ago 2
Comedians making comedians laugh, and letting us be apart of it!
graydog009 1 year ago
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The BEST about this Roast is NO RICKLES The Worst in Comedy
mastior 1 year ago
what's with the random AOL sounds and stuff?
PowerfulDragon 1 year ago
Was a teenager when these were going on- - Nothing has come close since
terripin99 1 year ago
@CoopTheTruth Are you talking about Don Rickles? He's stiil here.
JeffRotull43 1 year ago
"The fact that you've been able to make two wives disappear..." :D
ReklawLah 1 year ago
CARSON WAS SO COOL.......but every generation always attacks its youth for its ways......
There are some talented comedians out there today.....
Let's not be too hasty in attacking the youth culture......Remember how your parents attacked and criticized your trends and fads....
7Beyonder 1 year ago
CARSON WAS SO COOL....
7Beyonder 1 year ago
these are the real gentleman...just pioneers and hilarious! so sick of you guys comparing comedians and shit...look.. news flash people...TIMES HAVE CHANGED IS A EVOLUTION DEAL WITH IT...
ltuomela 1 year ago
true story!
cwisme 1 year ago
they were real comedians not like now that they just attack and laugh at u not with u ....like dean and the rat pack
jayuyaful 1 year ago
Never thought they would stop people from smoking like they have but boy does it look strange to see all them lighting up!!! I remember when you could light a cigarette in a hospital and stamp the butt out in the floor!!! How times have changed!!!!!!
maddi206 1 year ago
so many great stars, today we have garbage.
brownindian17 1 year ago
my father has very similer humour to these guys..so ive been brought up with this around me all my life....and when i go out and behave in the way these guys do people think im weird...im also sick of comics these days ...but also people in general ,its just not like the old days
cactuskid007 1 year ago
ippster1 and TenderTrap86 are perfect examples of how every generation will trash later generations and glorify their own. But that also means that generations before them thrashed the generation(s) the two of them belong to. They also had the likes of Lenny Bruce, Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and others who were considered "obnoxious" and "disgusting" by many small-minded, uptight a-holes. So many comedians from the 50's-70's, even the 80's, were so whitebread, corny & afraid to be topical.
Ldale11 1 year ago
I remember watching these. These were wonderful and extremely funny. Get a kick, now, of seeing them smoking on the dais!!!! Don't know if I even missed one. Foster Brooks just killed me!! LOL I would love to buy the DVD set of all the roasts (51, last one in 1984 for Michael Landon); and I just may order them very soon!!
shejean 1 year ago
I would have to agree, the comedians way back then, show just how much class they have to the comedians of today.
toborthenoddy 1 year ago
Thanks Johnny
johnka48 1 year ago
The good old days.
ff85258 1 year ago
its amazing how hysterical these guys were without having to resort to using any foul language! --Todays comedieans every other word outta their mouth is F*CK!
JimmyD4u69 1 year ago 4
i wish to hell i'd have lived in this era. this is pure comedy.
IIIIdepechemodeIIII 1 year ago 3
OH MY GOD dean martin iz my new inspiration i wanna cry just known i wuznt raised at dis time todayz comedy aint even comedy i kall it more like teenage lives that nobody gives a shit bout but wow i really wish i wuz born at this time with dean martin and them oh my god ='(
Jmontanez95 1 year ago
the funny thing is all these ppl bitching about todays comedians, congrats you became your grandparents
PsychicStoner 1 year ago
@PsychicStoner So true.
Buffy8Fan 1 year ago
@PsychicStoner Well put Psychic. People complain too much. Each generation has great musicans and comedians, and each generation has garbage as well. But always harping about the "Good ol' days, and that EVERYTHING today sucks, well, you're just a tired old crank. Wake up. And I'm no spring chicken. I'll be 43 soon.
loungelizard5000 1 year ago
Anyone else wish we could go back to the 60's and 70's and stay?
40Rtruss 1 year ago 127
@40Rtruss Everyday,,,,,,,,,,everyday. Those were truly the most innocent and best of times....
arai59 1 year ago
@40Rtruss YES i am 13 and i believe i was born in the wrong time i wish i could have been there to see them live
TheDeanmartinfan1 1 year ago 2
@TheDeanmartinfan1 Same, and I'm 15.
rhinnawi95 1 year ago
@40Rtruss You better believe it !!
authorlaurence 10 months ago
@40Rtruss yeah
curtismichael14 10 months ago
@40Rtruss no
SCJohnson77 8 months ago
@40Rtruss I do.
PaulWhitehouse 6 months ago in playlist Dean Martin - roasts
@40Rtruss I also wish.
PaulWhitehouse 6 months ago in playlist Dean Martin - roasts
@40Rtruss Great times in America, if you were White....
anythingnew 3 months ago 2
@40Rtruss Personally, I would like to spend my entire life in the years from about 1953 to 1966...Great Years
when the wages -vs- cost of living were strong, the country was strong,...we didn't have the moral degredation
and the reprobates in gov't (at all levels, now)....at least not to the extent as today.....Actually, I think I'd rather go
back to the 30's...when they built Real cars with character, and Steam was still king of the rails...and people had jobs...with No Computers.
TurbinePower69 3 months ago
How I wish for the yesterdays.
starr522 1 year ago 5
@starr522 Me too. They were certainly the good old days of entertainment.
OneAtheist1 1 year ago
lol
CnetProductions2 1 year ago
Dynamite! Todays culture is in for a RUDE awakening when 40 years from NOW...NO one will remember it!
FTWEVERYONE 1 year ago
the roasts here are better than the shit u see on comedy centrall.
copnite12342 1 year ago 3
I agree 100%
beef4all 1 year ago
carson was painfully shy .
so self conscience that he avoided people.
really he had no friends or social life.
but he was a bit of an intellectual and loved having capote and gore vidal , 2 great writers and true brilliant men,on his show and would go out to dinner with both.
his last wife was trumans best friend late in his life.
JadeTomZ 1 year ago
"originated the idea of roasting people" wow sickkkkkkk ...
aghabmoonde 1 year ago
how do i download these dean martin clips.
shark2006pool 1 year ago
@shark2006pool go to savevid.com its easy
aghabmoonde 1 year ago
make two wives dissapear hahahahahahaha
the6thmonkey 1 year ago
Now that is entertainment
volmeover 1 year ago
Jonathan Winters-the first Larry the Cable guy. Nothing is really new....
knowallcity 1 year ago
Wow that's when people could smoke and smoke and smoke in T.V.
msolupi 1 year ago
Comedy at its finest. Unfortunately, there will never be anything like it again
16906123 1 year ago 2
Would a comic get away with a gag like 'roasting people' these days? I wonder.
spaceoreo 1 year ago
go to heaven go directly to heaven
do not pass go just go to heaven what a blast thanks!
srjimmy1 1 year ago
i rofld at jonathan winters one and when the good senator came and said guest hosting his tv show is an honor which comes to every american sometime. its like jury duty. rofl madddddd
FullHouseFanatic 1 year ago
Good comedy!! Funny !!
Today's 'comedians' are just crude.
urkoolUncle 1 year ago
the 70s look so amazing dean redd foxx michael jackson frank sinatra sammy davis richard pryor and more :D
Blackjesus3 1 year ago
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Is Carson still alive? He was always part of the furniture in UK even though we never saw him - we always heard of him for very many years in movies etc..
RIP Deano, Capote, Burns, and all those classy funny dead guys
IdaSputum 1 year ago
He`s dead
Yellyist 1 year ago
thanks
IdaSputum 1 year ago
Carson is just a memory now !
Bidil6 1 year ago
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I know exactly what you mean. My family did too just like yours. We all watch Carson together. Then one day everything chanced without him. People got used to being pit to sleep by Carson.
Bidil6 1 year ago
Why are they bringing leno back, he failed with me. Geez Conan numbers must have been really bad to become so desperate as to have to bring back the loud, not mild manner, lacks sophistcation and education Jay Leno, the Italian meatball with no taste in his own mouth.
Bidil6 1 year ago
They just not found the right replacement for Carson. Leno is too not funny and not educated well enough, and lacks a sophisticated character that Carson had, leno is just too loud and not at all mild manner, letterman is just a waste of time, he just wants to be politically positioned and smash the political party that isn't his, lettermann is just not humorous, he makes his political views known more than he has funny material.
Bidil6 1 year ago
ehh letterman is funny and carson liked him.
ryujio85 1 year ago
Thanks for this post,is treasure,I laugh my ass off ,just amazing!
sscolta 1 year ago 2
That's Doc Sevrenson? He looks like Sonny Bono!
andyandymax 1 year ago
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dancingdiplodocus 1 year ago
I still miss Johnny on the tonight show, it hasn't been the same since he left.
Many happy memories watching that show with my Mom and Dad and little brothers for so many years. It always makes me smile thinking of him and those times.
AlwaysYourWeigh 1 year ago 4
wow whoever made this, sure kept getting on AOL and leaving. "Welcome" .. "Goodbye" xD
zortcrum 1 year ago
NO AUDIO
cpstamm 2 years ago
its mono
kayvun 2 years ago
Oh wow! this takes us a long way back! Really, those were the days!
Well done and thanks for the memories
tetamalu 2 years ago
Dionne Warwick's expression @10:16 is priceless
shoredude2 2 years ago
Woah! Truman Capote!!
superjules 2 years ago 3
waaayyyy corny, but well worth the watch for all the celebs. thx so much for posting! :-)
njpair 2 years ago
not corny; just good fun with wit and humor, from true stars who know their crafts.
dancingdiplodocus 1 year ago 3
Awe Red Foxx The True Original King oF Comedy!
Major2219 2 years ago
whoever posted this... THANK YOU!
jackbrat81 2 years ago 4
dean is so funny
Cassie86R 2 years ago
There is sadly nothing like this anymore. This was real comedy.
michaelteter 2 years ago 45
@michaelteter ain't that a kick in the head?
TheBikefish 10 months ago
i'll remember this evening...for as long as it takes for me to get to my car
darius595 2 years ago
Hysterical! You have to be over 50 to know who most of these people. What a classic piece of history. So many of my favorite comedians.
lycolovelies 2 years ago 3
lycolovelies: No you don't have to be over 50 to know who these people are, you just need a close family unit of parents & grandparents who would have found it important enough to have shared this great entertainment with each successive generation:)
mycreature 2 years ago 3
@ mycreature: amen!
njpair 2 years ago
@lycolovelies Huh? I know every single person up there and I'm only 38. I grew up watching these people. I also know the generation of celebrities preceding this one like Bogart, Jean Harlow, Errol Flynn, etc. Most had died years before I was born. I guess it comes down to personal interests/tastes. I know a few shallow people who don't even know much about their own generation. They're aware of only the most popular and ubiquitous celebrities, films and music.
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ThewZ 2 years ago
i didnt mind the editing or sound effects...
samanthak2205 2 years ago 2
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the editing here is awful! and what is with the sound effects?!!?!!
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 2 years ago
I love Doc's roast, he's hilarious in his own right.
terjer01 2 years ago
HORRHENDOUS editing!
Tre404 2 years ago
Ditto. There were so many funny people there and George most likely edited out the best of the funny stuff.
dikelsey 2 years ago
I hear ya, DIKELSEY, but what I was really referring to was his editing technique (actually, lack thereof)... just chop chop chop!
Tre404 2 years ago
One word - Fantastic!
TasmanianTony 2 years ago
i love dean martin roast they are so funny. don rickles is always at the roast.
bonanzalover1 2 years ago
10:08
OMG!
nkumm 2 years ago
dean is so funny
Cassie86R 2 years ago
this is by far one of the best singers from the old days i love. i'm 37 and have almost all of his music. i think is best movie role was rio bravo. there's a great scene were dean and ricky nelson sing togather in the movie that stands the test of time. what a great voice he had
THETRADOGGFUL 2 years ago
This is classic.
Those stars were real entertainers.
Legends who get better with time who will be just as loved by the generations of people yet to come.
Johnny, Dean and the others will always be true Hollywood.
Thank you for sharing this with us.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 2 years ago 3
his ancestors originated the idea of roasting people.....LMAO
Boghosianm 2 years ago
Classic stuff...but the funniest one to me was Johnny himself. I know he probably had writers write his jokes, but they were the funniest ones to me. Loved all the guests though. Thanks for sharing !!!
loungelizard5000 2 years ago 2
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This is 100,000 times worse than the roasts of today. They just did not understand comedy back in the day.
chawk111 2 years ago
he's so tanked, haha
cozmosmashzu 2 years ago
Priceless, just priceless!!
calientea2003l 2 years ago 2
Check out what he says at the end of his speech....about roasting a dude. Classic, but, if anyone told that joke now, there would be rioting in the streets.
AchromaticAdulation 2 years ago 6
True. The Dean Martin roasts were "public", and were aired on television. The Friar's Club roasts, on the other hand, were "private", and contained vulgarity and profanity.
But still, I am inclined to think that even the Friar's Club roasts were funnier than any of the crap that comes out of Comedy Central. Comedy today as a genre is in a different league than what is was in the 1970s. I would like to see a group of people today try to "top" these guys. Which chances are, won't happen.
KratostheThird 2 years ago 3
These roasts were just as vulgar as the roasts today. They had the "public" roast, and the "private" roast...the private roasts were off the chain, they used EVERY cuss word in the book.
Nowadays it's just right up front.
And the OLD WOMEN who are complaining here, if they don't like vulgar comedy...?...should go watch "Touched By An Angel" and shut the hell up.
squanto2 2 years ago
are the private roasts posted on youtube?
jeannieanline 2 years ago
Why is Barry Goldwater in all these roasts?
Wyrmshadow 2 years ago
I just turned 24....and even I know that THIS is what comedy is!
Xepherya 2 years ago 4
I have to agree with you Ippster. It seems that today's comedians don't have the wit or intelligence to keep audiences laughing at their seats. They have no distinct ability or unique trait, they just follow like sheep and hope to get better deals when they see them. Most comedians these days are the same, they don't really have anything new to offer. In general, they don't have a clue.
The Dean Martin Roasts, on the other hand, had real actors. They knew what they were doing, and it shows.
KratostheThird 2 years ago 2
today's comedians are not really funny, they are more obnoxious than anything else. I wish they really would watch some of these clips and learn something from them. These are funny, I don't waste my time watching the roast on Comedy Central, they are just awful, no humor, nothing funny at all, they are not comedians as much as foul mouthed wannabes.
ippster1 2 years ago 43
@ippster1 i must agree with you, most comady now is just bashing on something that someone did, of corse i was never in the era, sense i was too young, i miss monty python type humer, the nonsense but at the same time we can relect, now ive only looked up this stuff becues i saw it on tv XD but i know it will be good becues it has the greatest comady minds of the decaid
sonicspeedx13 1 year ago
@ippster1 You took the words right ou of my mouth. It's more exhibition than entertainment these days.
thenextrung 1 year ago
@ippster1 - Amen.
er6789er 1 year ago
@ippster1 sooo true man i really cant find any comedians nowadays that have any talent. my gfs whole family is into dane cook. ive never heard a more obnoxious comedian in my life. all he does is scream and im suppose to think this is funny. the only one i can find who is still good is ron white. o well always have the classics :)
imbored1465 1 year ago 4
Has anyone ever noticed how charming any of these old school comedians are when they are just talking off the cuff, whether it's here or a talk show? Most of today's comics are totally disgusting and are usually not that funny when they are just talking freely.
TenderTrap86 2 years ago 21
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funny but not pc by todays standards who cares
CK1223 2 years ago
TRUMAN CAPOTE!
heedfest 2 years ago
" I will remember this evening probably as long as it takes me to get to my car!"
What a great closing line! Carson was simply the best!
danolson68 2 years ago 2
I think the comedy central roasts are absolutely hysterical...
ezwages 2 years ago
The comedy central roasts are low grade trash. Filth and not even funny.
aitraining 2 years ago 3
Wow, George Burns...AWESOME! I bet 99.99% of all kids today, sadly, couldn't even tell you that he was a comedian, because they simply don't care for actual GOOD humor like in all the roasts that Martin did. Take today's roasts on Comedy Central these days...all of them, AWFUL!
msu2k9 2 years ago 4
I would like to say that I am Seventeen years old and I know who George and Gracie are and I totally agree that the 'humor' of today is TOTAL CRAP!
WhovianRentPhan13 2 years ago 3
@msu2k9 No, 98% of them won't even understand what the comedians are saying.
anythingnew 3 months ago
classic!!!!!!
iparho08 2 years ago