Governor of California and former actor Ronald Reagan is roasted by Dean Martin and his friends. On the dais with Dean are Jack Benny, Jackie Vernon, Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Don Rickles, Dom DeLuise, Pat Henry, Audrey Meadows, Nipsey Russell, Mark Spitz and Ronald's wife Nancy Reagan.
The Playboy founder and entrepreneur is roasted by Billy Baxter, Howard Cosell, Jackie Gayle, Dick Martin, Joey Bishop and others.
Roasters: Pat Buttram, Jackie Vernon, Dionne Warwick, Steve Landesberg, Charo, Jack Carter
The subject is William Conrad, formerly radio's Marshal Dillon on 'Gunsmoke', currently starring on television's 'Cannon'. Roasters include Phyllis Diller, Nipsey Russell, Petula Clark, Bob Newhart, Jackie Gayle and others.
Roasters: Ted Knight, Norm Crosby, Jack Burns, Avery Schreiber, Rich Little, Lynn Anderson, Jackie Gayle, Don Rickles
Roasters: Pat Buttram, Kay Medford, Nipsey Russell, Joyce Haber, Vincent Price, Army Archerd, Barbara Heller, Henry Fonda, Howard Cosell
Current Republican senator Barry Goldwater, formerly the losing candidate in the 1964 Presidential race, is roasted by William Conrad, Norm Crosby, Steve Landesberg, Carroll O'Connor, William Holden, Mark Russell, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donald Rice, and Dan Rowan.
'The Tonight Show' host Johnny Carson is roasted by Dean and his friends. Roasters include George Burns, Truman Capote, Doc Severinsen, Joey Bishop, Ruth Buzzi, Dom DeLuise, Bob Newhart, Louisa Moritz, Fred DeCordova, Jonathan Winters, Foster Brooks, Dionne Warwick, Rich Little, Barry Goldwater, Bette Davis, Martin Milner & Kent McCord, Redd Foxx, Jack Benny and Joanna Holland.
Legendary basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain is roasted by Norm Crosby, Happy Hairston, Audrey Meadows, Ken Berry, Nipsey Russell, Bill Shoemaker, George Kennedy, Jackie Gayle and others.
Current Democrat senator Hubert H. Humphrey, formerly the losing candidate in the 1968 Presidential race, is roasted by Pat Henry, Nipsey Russell, Gene Kelly, Leo Durocher, Mort Sahl, Ted Knight, Mark Russell, Rich Little, Donald Rice, Lowell Weicker, Foster Brooks, and Audrey Meadows.
Roasters: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Marty Allen, Mike Connors, Elsie Birdwell, Norm Crosby, John Lindsay, Nipsey Russell, Gene Kelly, Joey Bishop, Ward Wood, William Conrad, William Holden, Donald O'Connor, Charles Nelson Reilly, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ruth Buzzi, Barry Goldwater, Cass Elliot, Redd Foxx, Don Rickles, Foster Brooks
Roasters: Bert Parks, Audrey Meadows, Rocky Graziano, Donald O'Connor, Gene Kelly, Birch Bayh, Art Linkletter, Jack Carter
Roasters: Mike Connors, Gary Burghoff, Ruth Buzzi, Soupy Sales, Jack Carter, Leonard Barr, Jackie Vernon, Loretta Lynn, Doug Kershaw, Laffit Pincay, Jr.
Roasters: Donald O'Connor, Charles Nelson Reilly, Sue Cameron, Corbett Monica, Donna Fargo, Lonnie Schorr, Ruth Buzzi, Buddy Hackett, Mel Tillis
The Hall of Fame manager of baseball's Brooklyn Dodgers and Houston Astros, is roasted by Gene Kelly, Maury Wills, Bobby Riggs, Dizzy Dean, Chuck Connors, Alex Karras, Jack Carter, Foster Brooks and Gladys Knight.
Roasters: Jean Simmons, Ted Knight, Audrey Meadows, Donald O'Connor, Rich Little, Joseph Wambaugh, Rocky Graziano, Foster Brooks, Anna Moffo, Johnny Russell
Roasters: Demond Wilson, Joey Bishop, Nipsey Russell, Foster Brooks, Norm Crosby, Rich Little, Jim Bailey, Jackie Gayle, John Barbour, Slappy White
Mr. Warmth himself, Don Rickles gets a taste of his own medicine in this installment of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Dean is accompanied on the dais by Joey Bishop, Phyllis Diller, Lorne Greene, Rowan & Martin, Casey Kaseem, Bob Newhart, Carol Channing, Nipsey Russell, Cliff Robertson, Jack Klugman, Pat Henry, Kirk Douglas, Rich Little, Telly Savalas, Charlie Callas, Foster Brooks and Eugene Cernan (Apollo XVII).
Left wing crusader and activist Ralph Nader is roasted by Jack Klugman, James Brolin, Jane Withers, Steve Landesberg, Mort Sahl, Rich Little, Ruth Buzzi, Jackie Gayle, Foster Brooks, and Donna Fargo.
Jack Benny, legendary comedian of vaudeville, radio, and television, is roasted by Jimmy Stewart, Joey Bishop, Florence Henderson, George Burns, Norm Crosby, Zubin Mehta, Pearl Bailey, Dick Martin, Mark Spitz, Wayne Newton, Rich Little, Demond Wilson, Jack Carter, Foster Brooks, and Gary Burghoff.
Bobby Riggs is roasted as the Man of the Week while Dean is on the dais with guests Vincent Price, Chuck Connors, Leo Durocher, Alex Karras, Wayne Newton, Lynn Anderson, Don Rice III, Jack Carter and Rosemary Casals.
The fanciful roast of a historical figure, in this case George Washington, victorious general and first President (played by Jan Leighton). Roasters: Leonard Barr, Foster Brooks (as Washington's press secretary), Jack Carter, Euell Gibbons, Steve Lawrence (as Washington's aide-de-camp), Dick Martin, Audrey Meadows (as Martha Washington), Corbett Monica, Nipsy Russell, Henny Youngman.
Roasters: Joey Bishop, Audrey Meadows, Arte Johnson, Richard Dawson, Nipsey Russell, Steve Lawrence, Bob Newhart, Ruth Buzzi, Foster Brooks
Legendary baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron is roasted by Joey Bishop, Eddie Mathews, Audrey Meadows, Lou Rawls, Norm Crosby, Jackie Bavene, Lynn Anderson, Nipsey Russell, Dizzy Dean, Jeannie Rineal, Rodney Allen Rippy and Foster Brooks.
Roasters: Don Meredith, Weeb Ewbank, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Dick Butkus, Jim Plunkett, David Janssen, Angie Dickinson, Fulton J. Sheen, Foster Brooks, Charlie Callas, Joey Bishop, Rich Little, Slappy White
Roasters: Flip Wilson, Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Ginger Rogers, Foster Brooks, Jimmy Stewart, Milton Berle, Billy Graham, Rich Little, Howard Cosell, Jack Benny, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nipsey Russell, Omar Bradley, Phyllis Diller, Neil Armstrong, Henry Kissinger, Don Rickles, Dolores Hope
Roasters: Phyllis Diller, Howard Cosell, George Kennedy, Dom DeLuise, Peter Graves, Casey Kasem, Shelley Winters, Ernest Borgnine, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Foster Brooks, Richard Roundtree, Robert Stack, Nipsey Russell, Rich Little, Angie Dickinson, Don Rickles
Roasters: Phyllis Diller, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Ruth Buzzi, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Gary Morton, Gale Gordon, Totie Fields, Rich Little, Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, Foster Brooks, Nipsey Russell, Jack Benny, Vivian Vance, Don Rickles
Roasters: Phyllis Diller, Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, Audrey Meadows, Gene Kelly, Nipsey Russell, Sandy Hirt, Sid Caesar, Sheila MacRae, Art Carney, Frank Gorshin, Foster Brooks
Roasters: Milton Berle, Wilt Chamberlain, Freddie Prinze, Norm Crosby, Dionne Warwick, Joey Bishop, Nipsey Russell, Phyllis Diller, Jan Murray, Frank Gorshin, Foster Brooks, Don Rickles, Altovise Davis
Roaster: Amanda Blake, Ernest Borgnine, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller, Euell Gibbons, Lorne Greene, Guy Marks, Jan Murray, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, Victor Sen Yung, Joey Bishop, Norm Crosby
Roasters: Gabe Kaplan, Isabel Sanford, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Berle, William Conrad, Barry Goldwater, Glen Campbell, Georgia Engel, Jackie Cooper, Nipsey Russell, Joyce Brothers, Charlie Callas, Cliff Robertson, McLean Stevenson, Audrey Meadows, Ruth Buzzi, Don Rickles
Roasters: Rich Little, Isabel Sanford, David Groh, Red Buttons, Phyllis Diller, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, Milton Berle, Ed Asner, Richard Schaal, Harold Gould, Eva Gabor, Chad Everett, Julie Kavner, Nipsey Russell, Georgia Engel, Foster Brooks, Jack Carter.
Roasters: Freddie Prinze, Gabe Kaplan, Red Buttons, Tony Orlando, Wilt Chamberlain, Georgia Engel, Billy Crystal, Floyd Patterson, Howard Cosell, Ruth Buzzi, Gene Kelly, Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Rocky Graziano, Foster Brooks, Orson Welles, Nipsey Russell
Roasters: Don Rickles (Roastmaster), Orson Welles, Paul Lynde, Joe Namath, Barry Goldwater, Angie Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Stewart, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Hubert Humphrey, Charlie Callas, John Wayne, Joey Bishop, Rich Little, Ruth Buzzi, Tony Orlando, Georgia Engel, Nipsey Russell, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Bob Hope
Roasters: William Conrad, Shelley Winters, Steve Forrest, Red Buttons, Rich Little, Mike Connors, Milburn Stone, Ruth Buzzi, Nipsey Russell, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Georgia Engel, Amanda Blake, Peter Graves, Foster Brooks, Milton Berle
Roasters: Red Buttons, Orson Welles, Luis Tiant, Pat Henry, Nipsey Russell, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Norm Crosby, Shirley Jones, Mickey Mantle, Jack Carter, Stan Musial, Maury Wills, Charles O. Finley, Charlie Callas, Jackie Gayle
Roasters: Demond Wilson, Milton Berle, Isabel Sanford, Isaac Hayes, LaWanda Page, Jimmie Walker, Slappy White, Liz Torres, George Kirby, Norm Crosby, Steve Allen, Joe Garagiola, Nipsey Russell, Don Rickles, Marty Allen, Abe Vigoda
Roasters: Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Gene Kelly, Jimmie Walker, Red Buttons, Harvey Korman, Charo, Charlie Callas, Ruth Buzzi, Nipsey Russell, Dena Dietrich, Howard Cosell, Jan Murray, Don Knotts, Orson Welles
Roasters: Ed Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Georgia Engel, Jimmy Stewart, Orson Welles, Jimmie Walker, Jack Carter, Harvey Korman, Jackie Wilson, Red Buttons, LaWanda Page, Paul Williams, Foster Brooks, Scatman Crothers, Kelly Monteith, Willie Tyler & Lester, Julie McWhirter, Renée Richards
Roasters: Denver Pyle, William Conrad, Harry Morgan, Pat Harrington, Roger Miller, Orson Welles, Abe Vigoda, Rich Little, Ruth Buzzi, Red Buttons, Jimmie Walker, Charlie Callas, LaWanda Page, Foster Brooks, Marilyn Michaels, Jackie Gayle, Tom Dreesen
Roasters: Nipsey Russell, Liz Torres, Billy Crystal, Red Buttons, Charo, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Howard Cosell, Johnny Bench, Ed Bluestone, Alice Ghostley, Joe Garagiola, Charlie Callas, Abe Vigoda, George Kirby, Milton Berle
Roasters: Joey Bishop, Rose Marie, Red Buttons, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Orson Welles, Rip Taylor, Vincent Price, Karen Valentine, Ed Bluestone, Foster Brooks, Jimmie Walker, Jackie Gayle, Paul Lynde, Jack Carter, Wayland Flowers & Madam
Roasters: Jimmy Stewart, Eve Arden, Earl Holliman, Orson Welles, Joey Bishop, Juliet Prowse, Jimmie Walker, Cindy Williams, Red Buttons, Cathy Rigby, Jackie Mason, Scatman Crothers, LaWanda Page, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Foster Brooks, Rex Reed
Roasters: Tony Randall, Milton Berle, Katherine Helmond, Dick Martin, Red Buttons, Abbe Lane, Joey Bishop, Phyllis Diller, LaWanda Page, Ruth Buzzi, Robert Guillaume, Kay Medford, Connie Stevens, Foster Brooks, Don Rickles, Joyce Brothers
Roasters: Gene Kelly, Connie Stevens, James Stewart, Milton Berle, Jack Carter, Phyllis Diller, Ernest Borgnine, Joey Bishop, Norm Crosby, Euell Gibbons, Guy Marks, Jan Murray, Cliff Robertson, Lorne Greene, Sid Caesar, Amanda Blake, Victor Sen Yung, Don Rickles, LaWanda Page, Abe Vigoda, Dom DeLuise, Ronald Reagan, Orson Welles, Charlie Callas, Ruth Buzzi, Frank Welker
Roasters: Peter Marshall, Jimmie Walker, Bonnie Franklin, Orson Welles, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Abe Vigoda, LaWanda Page, Foster Brooks, Phyllis Diller, Rich Little, John Hillerman, Georgia Engel, Dan Haggerty, Milton Berle, Allen Ludden
Roasters: Ronald Reagan, Gene Kelly, Don Rickles, George Burns, Dom DeLuise, Redd Foxx, Jimmy Stewart, Flip Wilson, Telly Savalas, Jonathan Winters, LaWanda Page, Red Buttons, Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, Orson Welles, Rich Little, Barbara Marx, Jilly Rizzo, Ruth Buzzi, Peter Falk
Jimmy Stewart captured the hearts of Americans with his kind, warm, boy-next-door appeal. Of his 79 films, he is probably most remembered for the perennial Christmas classic, ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE, for which he received an Oscar nomination in 1946. If that movie's theme holds true, "No Man Is Poor Who Has Friends", then Jimmy Stewart was one of the richest men in Hollywood. Some of Jimmy's friends joining Dean Martin in this rare and hilarious 1978 roast include Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle and George Burns.
Roasters: Milton Berle, Lorne Greene, Joyce Brothers, Audra Lindley, Norman Fell, Norm Crosby, Lee Meriwether, Charlie Callas, Bernie Kopell, Red Buttons, LaWanda Page, Paul Anka, Ruth Buzzi, Tom Bosley, Rich Little, Jackie Gayle, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Alan Hamel
Roasters: Lee Meriwether, Angie Dickinson, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, David Doyle, Tom Bosley, Bernie Kopell, Rich Little, George Blanda, Dick Butkus, Mel Tillis, Norm Crosby, Jackie Gayle, Bruce Jenner, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Joey Bishop
Roasters: John Forsythe, Aaron Spelling, Gavin MacLeod, Beatrice Arthur, Red Buttons, Phyllis Diller, Angie Dickinson, Charlie Callas, Rich Little, Anne Baxter, Don Rickles, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Dom DeLuise, Milton Berle
Roasters: Bob Hope, George Peppard, Gary Coleman, Ann Jillian, Red Buttons, Rich Little, Rick Schroder, Gavin MacLeod, Slappy White, Dick Shawn, Howard Cosell, Maureen Murphy, Don Rickles, Nell Carter
Roasters: Melissa Gilbert, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene, Merlin Olsen, Vic Tayback, Maureen Murphy, Rich Little, Pat Harrington, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dick Shawn, Norm Crosby, Orson Welles, Don Rickles, Slappy White
Video series spotlighting memorable moments and roasts hosted by Dean Martin. "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" were periodic specials aired in the 1970s and 1980s, which roasted (or honored) such stars as Lucille Ball, Muhammad Ali and Johnny Carson; guests then recalled comedic moments they shared. Comedian Rich Little (a regular on the "Roast" specials) served as pitchman for the videos in a series of TV infomercials
Featuring: Angie Dickinson, Robert Mitchum, Gov. Ronald Reagan
Featuring Dom DeLuise, Abe Vigoda, Jonathan Winters, Hermione Baddeley, Georgia Engel, and The Golddiggers.
Style Editor Merle Ginsberg, Tony Danza, Angie Dickinson & Mitzi Gaynor discuss the many fashion styles of Dean Martin.
* Waterfence Committee Hearings Sketch (Watergate spoof) - Dean, Dick Martin, Joey Bishop, Howard Cosell * Opening monologue - Dean * Group Marriage - Dean, Dick Martin, Joey Bishop, Howard Cosell, Audrey Meadows * Greatest Domestic Fights of the Century - Dean, Audrey Meadows, Howard Cosell * Next Case - Dean and Sandy Herdt * The Bar - Howard Cosell, Dick Martin
* The Ravon Man - Dean, Ernest Borgnine * Opening Monologue - Dean * Novelty - Dean, Dom DeLuise, Carol Arthur * The Hold-Up - Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Dom DeLuise, Charo * Wig Shop - Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Dom DeLuise sing 'Personality' * The Bar #2 - Dean Ernest Borgnine, Dom DeLuise
* The Divorce - Dean, Petula Clark, Bob Newhart * Of Mice and Men - Dean, Petula Clark, Bob Newhart, Nipsey Russell * Pet Cemetery - Dean, Bob Newhart * The Bar #3 - Dean, Bob Newhart
* Lost and Found - Dean, Ted Knighrt, Burns and Schreiber * The Oldest Man - Dean and Tim Conway * The Baloons - Burns and Schreiber * Marriager Counselor #1 - Dean and Gail Materko * The Bar #5 - Dean, Ted Knight, Tim Conway
* Bearing the Brunt - Dean, Howard Cosell, Kay Medford * Captain Tidy - Dean, Vincent Price, Sue Buckner * Cymbal Player - Dean, Howard Cosell, Sandy Hardt * The Bar #9 - Dean and Vincent Price
* Kidde Library - Dean and Dan Rowan * Supermarket - Dean, William Holden, William Conrad, Dan Rowan * The Silent Spot - Dean and William Holden
* Superman - Dean and Audrey Meadows * The Modfather - Dean and George Kennedy * The Bar #11 - Dean and George Kennedy
* The Bar #12 - Dean, Foster Brooks * The Wedding - Dean, Gene Kelly, Ted Knight * There'll Be Some Changes Made - Dean, Ted Knight * Lingerie Shop - Dean, Audrey Meadows, Ted Knight
* The Bar #10 - Dean, Ruth Buzzi * Hank and Charlie - Dean, Gary Burghoff
* The Bar - Dean and Foster Brooks * The Kid's Last Bullfight - Dean, Buddy Hackett, Charles Nelson Reilly
* The Husband and the Bachelor - Dean, Chuck Conners * Laughing Spot - Dean and 50 Girls * Next Case #12 - Dean, Deborah Pratt
* The Bar #16 - Dean, Ted Knight * De-conditioning - Dean, Ted Knight
* Next Case - Dean and Ruth Buzzi * The Bar - Dean and Ruth Buzzi
* The Bar #13 - Dean, Foster Brooks * Next Case - Dean and Leslie Dalton
* Frontier Doctor - Dean, Foster Brooks * The Bar #14 - Dean, Vincent Price
* The Detective - Dean, Steve Lawrence, Sandy Herdt and Lee Hale.
* The Bar #17 - Dean, Joey Bishop * The Patient - Dean Joey Bishop
Show #1102 Featuring: Foster Brooks, Jack Cassidy, Peter Graves and others
Angie Dickinson on Getting Started
Barry Dougherty (Author and Friars Club Historian) on Roast History
Bill Nye on Dean Martin
Bill Nye on Evolution Of Entertainers
David Bianculli (TV Critic, NPR's Fresh Air) on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Florence Henderson on Dean Martin
Fred Willard on Getting Started
Greg Evans (TV Critic, Bloomberg News) on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Jack Carter on Dean Martin
John McMahon (Former President of NBC Entertainment) on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Jonathan Winters on Dean Martin
Lee Hale (Celebrity Roasts Associate Producer) on The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
Merle Ginsberg (Senior Style Writer, The Hollywood Reporter) on Style Writing
Mike Gibbons (Executive Producer, The Burn with Jeff Ross) on Creating The Roasts
Mitzi Gaynor on Her Career
Rip Taylor on Famous Friends
Roger Warnix (Celebrity Roasts Production Manager) on Starting Out With Dean
Tom Dreesen on Greg Garrison
Van Alexander (Celebrity Roasts Musical Arranger) on Getting Started
