The only thing thicker in the air than the cigarette smoke and packing a bigger kick than the cocktails were the insults. “The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts” celebrated the art of the put-down, but ...

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts belong to that category of pop culture ephemera that manages to embody all the excesses of its immediate cultural moment and yet survives the passage of time and taste ...

Comedy Central executive Elizabeth Porter on pushing the envelope at those raunchy celebrity roasts. William Shatner, David Hasselhoff, Flavor Flav and Pamela Anderson are a handful of the people ...

There’s no better guilty pleasure then Comedy Central Roasts. Comedy Central took the tried and true format of the roast, popularized by the Friars club inductions of celebrities, and made it palpable ...

Comedy Central exec Elizabeth Porter on those raunchy celebrity roasts, which are meant to be outrageous and raunchy, but most of all utterly hilarious.