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The Toast of William Shatner
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:50:38 GMT
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Captain Infinity...
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Yeesh, some toast that was! All those people were so mean! And I
didn't even recognize most of them. Bill Shatner calls these people
friends? Gah.
GarondoMarondo...
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Its a roast you sad excuse for a superhero, not a toast!!! :)
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Garondo Marondo!
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Ubiquitous...
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It was a "roast", not a "toast", actually...
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CCSBeyond...
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So where are James Spader and Leonard Nimoy? I mean, they have Farrah
Fawcett and Greg Giraldo on stage (and Brent Spiner and Jeri Ryan in
the audience) but they can't have his most famous co-stars?
GarondoMarondo...
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Artie Lange said on Monday that Nimoy had to cancel at the very last
minute. No details though.
trotsky...
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To hear the comics tell it it would've been some bizarre love triangle
involving George Takei.
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Garondo Marondo!
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Captain Infinity
Anim8rFSK...
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The show just tiny clips of Nichelle Nichols and Fred Willard and then
show all these untalented 'comedians' in their entirety?
ravenlynne...
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but was it funny? I forgot that it was on and missed it.
Anim8rFSK...
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Extremely dirty with scattered funniness. The Shat parts were great;
the random comedians blathering randomly weren't. It'll be on several
more times this week.
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rt4562...
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I was really disappointed, I wasn't expecting such filth. And I had my
two young daughters (9 and 11) watching with me -- it really angered me
that they had to be exposed to something like that. I really think the
Forge...
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Obviously you haven't seen a celebrity roast in many, many years. The
Dean Martin one you said you saw? That was the cleaned-up version. Or do
you really the Rat Pack were all that clean, shiny and cordial all the
time? Dino, God love him, was a wonderful guy, but he was also an old
Dago and part of a group of mean old Dagos that ran Hollywood for nearly
25 years. They were NOT, by any stretch of the imagination, "good clean
fun."
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FCC should look into this. Comedy Central should be ashamed of
themselves. I was expecting a "roast" similar to the old ones Dean
Invid Fan...
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The fact they had a warning at the start, and didn't air it until after
10 PM, should have warned you...
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Martin had ... boy was I surprised. Unbelievable.
Clell Harmon...
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You evidently only saw the heavily edited for TV version of the Martin
roasts. Those were, if anything, far filthier than anything Comedy
Barry Margolin...
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What else would you expect? Unless you were in the studio audience, the
TV version was all there was. How would most people know that the
roasts were any different from what they saw?
Clell Harmon...
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People who noticed the heavy handed editing, or perhaps notice that
they later roasts seemed to use the bleep button quite a bit more.
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trotsky...
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The Psychic Friends Network does.
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Central has ever broadcast.
What did you think TV-MA stood for? Many Actors?
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Invid Fan...
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They edited all the dirty parts out of those before they aired. Trust
me, they were just as bad back then.
(that said, the televised Frier's Roasts CC aired were better then the
ones they're doing themselves)
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shoof...
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The show was rated TV-MA. you were warned.
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ravenlynne...
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What part of the previews/past comedy central roasts/TV MA listing made
you think this sort of program was appropriate for your children? How
long did you let them watch?
Ra...
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He lets his little girls watch late night Roasts
and he wants some government agency to come solve his problems?
I think a government agency needs to take away the kids
and give them to somebody with some sense.
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