...For one thing, 'because'. this was the GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY. Can you top guys like George Burns,Jack Benny,Milton Berle,Jonathan Winters,Jackie Gleason,Dean Martin,Don Rickles,Red Buttons,Nipsey Russell,Phyllis Diller and the like ? there just 'arent' comedians around this talented anymore.... and these people learned from other 'earlier' geniuses like Charlie Chaplin,Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields...we will 'NEVER' see their like again.
@uzimodem I was only in my teens when these shows aired in the '70's. I couldn't wait for Dean to put on his next one. I used to love them so much & really still do. Although I'm with you, all this PC crap today is a bunch of BS, some of the stuff said back then was so blatantly racist it makes my skin crawl to hear it today. I guess in those days, making a joke of stereotypes & bigotry was supposed to make it OK, in much the way "All in the Family" went about tackling the issue.
@brooklyndodger59 :well, these people knew each other for one thng. but as to the "remarks", PC has made us the United States of the Offended. I for one would like to laugh, but too scared to do so because I may be a racist. what a sickening culture we have now. I would take those days in a new york minute if I could. just my opinion.
well you also have to take into account the reactions aren't always to the person doing the jokes. These tapes were edited of course, time shrunk down, and often the reactions to the jokes aren't actually to THAT joke, but might be to another joke in the evening. They are cut down and edited to fit into the roast tape timeline. The reactions you really know are real at that point are those when a wide view shot is given. There are some that are also re-used in the tapes multiple times.
@eolsunder I used to watch these roasts every week, and there's some editing, but the continuity was as you see it. What would be the point in editing a program, so that the laughs you see from the panel is for a different joke? Some poster suggested that these are scripted, but you can't or don't script Dean Martin wiping a tear from his eye when Foster Brooks was roasting Don Rickles. These comedians are pros with impeccable timing, and what you see is pretty much what you get.
@inmytree76 when they held the roasts everybody got served dinner, so he was comparing Sinatra to all these other famous people who "never got a dinner".
@carycomic1 Looks like I'll have to brush up on my history. This is what happens when history books Americanize everything. Thanks for the lesson, tho!
my late dad who died in 1993 at 58 ;used to crack up like crazy watching these roasts and specifically Red Buttons,Foster Brooks and Don Rickles.We'd watch this on Friday nights>I can hear my dad cracking up on the couch now.Brings back memories of my dad.Thanks for posting
Who wants to be known as chicken catcher torrie, that was slick
Lordpboog 3 days ago
just look at the fuckin people on that dais.
MegaGum1 2 months ago
That Sophia Loren joke was hysterical. Laughter without obscenity!!! Sure miss you guys!!!
sirhymer 2 months ago
good!
thistimenow2d 2 months ago
...For one thing, 'because'. this was the GOLDEN AGE OF COMEDY. Can you top guys like George Burns,Jack Benny,Milton Berle,Jonathan Winters,Jackie Gleason,Dean Martin,Don Rickles,Red Buttons,Nipsey Russell,Phyllis Diller and the like ? there just 'arent' comedians around this talented anymore.... and these people learned from other 'earlier' geniuses like Charlie Chaplin,Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields...we will 'NEVER' see their like again.
alzahad 3 months ago
Pardon my ignorance, but....
"J-L-O-V-E"
I don't get it.
generalbullmoose 5 months ago
this was a brilliant stand up and he always changed the story so it was always perfectly funny.:-)
JRRDPR 5 months ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
boring
paginipro 7 months ago
these were classy people and were not PC whores. our society is being ruined by this bullshit.
uzimodem 8 months ago
@uzimodem I was only in my teens when these shows aired in the '70's. I couldn't wait for Dean to put on his next one. I used to love them so much & really still do. Although I'm with you, all this PC crap today is a bunch of BS, some of the stuff said back then was so blatantly racist it makes my skin crawl to hear it today. I guess in those days, making a joke of stereotypes & bigotry was supposed to make it OK, in much the way "All in the Family" went about tackling the issue.
brooklyndodger59 8 months ago
@brooklyndodger59 :well, these people knew each other for one thng. but as to the "remarks", PC has made us the United States of the Offended. I for one would like to laugh, but too scared to do so because I may be a racist. what a sickening culture we have now. I would take those days in a new york minute if I could. just my opinion.
uzimodem 8 months ago
well you also have to take into account the reactions aren't always to the person doing the jokes. These tapes were edited of course, time shrunk down, and often the reactions to the jokes aren't actually to THAT joke, but might be to another joke in the evening. They are cut down and edited to fit into the roast tape timeline. The reactions you really know are real at that point are those when a wide view shot is given. There are some that are also re-used in the tapes multiple times.
eolsunder 9 months ago
@eolsunder I used to watch these roasts every week, and there's some editing, but the continuity was as you see it. What would be the point in editing a program, so that the laughs you see from the panel is for a different joke? Some poster suggested that these are scripted, but you can't or don't script Dean Martin wiping a tear from his eye when Foster Brooks was roasting Don Rickles. These comedians are pros with impeccable timing, and what you see is pretty much what you get.
jrssjdca 8 months ago
Their reactions are funnier than the jokes!
swetergrl91 10 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
one of the best ever
9895jack 10 months ago
what does it means: never got a dinnah?
inmytree76 11 months ago
@inmytree76 when they held the roasts everybody got served dinner, so he was comparing Sinatra to all these other famous people who "never got a dinner".
grunditgnome 11 months ago
classic
MrPlease1973 1 year ago
"Sophia Loren, whose new baby who said to Sophia , Is all that for me" Never got a dinner!
thats just a classic
falmark187 1 year ago
@carycomic1 Looks like I'll have to brush up on my history. This is what happens when history books Americanize everything. Thanks for the lesson, tho!
dharmaseed 1 year ago
my late dad who died in 1993 at 58 ;used to crack up like crazy watching these roasts and specifically Red Buttons,Foster Brooks and Don Rickles.We'd watch this on Friday nights>I can hear my dad cracking up on the couch now.Brings back memories of my dad.Thanks for posting
gacci777 1 year ago
"Sophia Loren's new baby, who said to Sophia Loren, 'Is that all for me?' :o"
LMFAO, never watch Red Buttons before a toilet break.
cinemaniac86 1 year ago
Chicken Catcher Torre!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
meanwiddlekid 1 year ago
venus de milo said to col. sanders, that sure is finger lickin' good... never got a dinner... LOL
romeo said to juliet for better romance, get off the balcony and get on the pill..neva got a dinner...LOL
DoUWanna007 1 year ago
no school like old school
yourstrulyjeffc 1 year ago
...Funny, clean, respectable.
The idealistics and values of the human race are slowly dissapating.
We are ruining life.
bombb82 1 year ago
The talent then dwarfts the no talent today.... fred----glove- jlove...funny
6921fred 1 year ago
Weren't Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus Spanish?
dharmaseed 1 year ago
@dharmaseed .. they were Italian. Isabella financed their voyages..
6921fred 1 year ago
@6921fred Ahh, thank you.
dharmaseed 1 year ago
I thought I was good at not laughing at the most hilarious moments in these series. Then Red said "... and on the seventh day he rested"
it was alllll over for me! LOL! genius
kasuni2009 1 year ago
The question is ladies and gentlemen....is why we don't have comedy like this anymore.
seismiccowboy 2 years ago 43
@seismiccowboy Because the PC whores have taken over our society. sickening but true.
uzimodem 8 months ago
Very funny stuff thanks very much for postibg!
styx4ever1963 2 years ago 7