Jimmy Stewart Roast

with Henry Fonda.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Jimmy
• Stewart
• Dean
• Martin
• Henry
• Fonda

[Cavillier1970]

These are a helluva lot better than the roasts on Comedy Central. I mean these the family can watch, the stars here are real stars and top quality not like the ones we have today.

[sarahnewt]

watching this, I am suddenly aware of how thin today's humour has become - all of these people are working hard and I get the impression that today's comics are using the material that these guys threw away because it wasn't funny enough..... They used only the best and their wit was so sharp and they were so fast in improv (jammin') --- god bless 'em !

[wtmj100]

@Evegalewitz I couldn't agree more. The actors that the studio system produced at least had charisma unlike actors today!

[1019drummer]

C. social club=epic......o'h and of course Twelve angry men. Miss U both. Happy holidays everyone!

[Evegalewitz]

Makes you realize the utter lack of elegance and class lost when Stanislavsky's Method by way of the Actors studio made made Realism the way of the future in cinema and the performances so much more powerful, but just sometimes we grow nostalgic for just a little of the sweet unreality of a star out of Warner Bros, MGM, like Mr. Stewart.

[Carterofmars]

God bless America.

[bewlaybrutha]

@sarahnewt

improv? this is as scripted as the evening news

[RobotMice]

These roast are so much classier then the comedy central roast

[suzbinky]

junkfoodfairofdyear - I hear you. Whenever asked on websites for my bd - I always list the year as 1939. Timing, writing, class - this was an era greatly missed in films.

[junkfoodfairofdyear]

@HogwartsCastle Agreed. Jimmy was like, what, 140 pounds at most, and Fonda just slightly heavier. For men of their height they were exceedingly skinny. Then again when they started out both were doing theater, and back then theater paid peanuts.

[junkfoodfairofdyear]

I wish I was alive...when these people were. Somehow I don't think I was born in the right era.

[Good0Point]

@sarahnewt I blame both the comics and the audience. Look at the people that perform at roasts these days, they're all awful. Their jokes are cheap, but in a recession I could see that the person who wrote the jokes for them wrote as well as he got paid. Second, the audience responds to dirt humor. It's awful. I don't know if you like Norm Macdonald but I went to his show and half the audience was pissed he didn't say cock a million times and the other half was too drunk to notice he was there.