Roast of James Franco

This was supposed to be a roast, not a murder! Some of those jokes cut Franco real deep...but you'd never know it by his high as fuck face.

Roast of "Johnny Depp with lupus" (2013)

Credit where due, some great sets. Virgin Leggero, usual roast shit actually funny. Lo and behold that Hit Joke from Apatow's standup comeback about looking like a rabid antisemitic caricature is here in the same form, said by Seth Rogen about Nick Kroll, whose face the gag fits so much finer. Not that Catskills comics weren't doing the same bit when George Lincoln Rockwell was selling out Madison Square Garden. I'm just saying, imagine Nick Kroll wheezing and grinning and reading the Protocols.

Fuck James Franco

Seen: 2.

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Amusing bits here and there.

Can't review it like a movie because it is not. This is the first Roast I watch and I think it was funny, the standups had some different styles and some jokes where really good, but you have to be familiar with the characters.

I'm a big fan of the Comedy Central Roasts in general. They're at their best when the roasters actually know the roastee and the roasters are actual entertainers (and in particular, comedians). Here, we get that in spades.

Bill Hader was awesome!