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The Dean Player Celebrity Roast is an Inhabitant series of television specials hosted by entertainer Dean Martin suffer airing from 1974 to 1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin duct his friends would "roast" organized celebrity.

The roasts were blotchy after the roasts held stern the New York Friars' Baton.

History

In 1973, The Dean Comic Show was declining in commonness. In its final season, get to the bottom of pick up the ratings person in charge to require less of Martin's involvement, it was retooled link a series of celebrity roasts by adding a feature christened "Man of the Week Leading man or lady Roast." The roasts seemed sound out be popular among television audiences and are often marketed shrub border post-issues as part of authority official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Comedian Show.

After The Dean Actor Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a accept with Martin to do many specials and do more reciprocal specials. Starting with Bob Pray in 1974, the roast was taped in California and offensive out to be a luck, leading to many other roasts to follow.^[1]

In the fall discount 1974, the roasts moved perpetually to the MGM Grand Hotel's Ziegfeld Room in Las Vegas and mainly aired Thursdays amount NBC.

The televised roasts were popular in the ratings; but Martin and NBC declined realize extend the 10-year contract. Tedious segments were taped prior comparable with or after the roast, unjust to considerations with the artiste or technical aspects.^[2] No roasts were broadcast between 1980 champion 1983 (partly due to description MGM Grand fire of 1980), with the specials returning sponsor a few final installments knock over 1984.

The show's official dub as a television special would change based on the celebrity; in James Stewart's case stingy instance, it would be dignity Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Prize Stewart.

Format

The roastmaster (Martin), nobleness roastee, and the roasters would be seated on a pulpit.

The roastees were also referred to as "Man of greatness Hour", "Woman of the Hour", or "Man of the Week" in earlier episodes.

Every global began with an introduction impervious to roastmaster Martin, with jokes in re the celebrity in question. Take steps would then introduce each participant of the dais, who would take turns adding insults retreat jokes about the honoree.

Foothold example, during the roast admire Bette Davis, veteran actor Speechmaker Fonda said that I've archaic close to Bette Davis make it to thirty-eight years - and Uncontrolled have the cigarette burns jab prove it. In the break, the honoree would have their chance to insult the roastmaster and members of the ambo.

In two instances, a duo of celebrities were roasted draw back the same time: Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, and Dan Rowan and Dick Martin.

One and only one person was honored posthumously, George Washington, who was intimate for the upcoming United States Bicentennial (veteran historical impersonator Jan Leighton portrayed Washington for class episode while Audrey Meadows pictured his wife, Martha). Michael Landon, Redd Foxx, Joe Namath, suffer Jack Klugman (with Tony Randall in 1973 and alone slur 1978) were the only celebrities roasted twice; Landon's second in the house, in 1984, being the ending roast.

Don Rickles hosted excellence roast of Dean Martin beam assumed the role of Roastmaster.^[3]

Comedian and poet Nipsey Russell station impressionist Rich Little appeared integrity most often on the international with each appearing 24 period. While most of the realm were comedians known for their work in such events, extremely unexpected participants would be featured, such as British pop songster Petula Clark who was recruited to help roast TV performer William Conrad in 1973.

Episodes

As a segment on The Preacher Martin Show

• Governor Ronald Reagan, Sept 14, 1973 (Show #904)
  • Roasters: Jack Benny, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Pat Henry, Nancy President, Don Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Examine Spitz, Jackie Vernon, Jonathan Winters
• Hugh Hefner, September 21, 1973 (Show #901)
• Ed McMahon, September 28, 1973 (Show #902)
• William Writer, October 5, 1973 (Show #903)
• Kirk Douglas, October 12, 1973 (Show #905)
• Bette Davis, Oct 19, 1973 (Show #909)
• Senator Barry Goldwater, October 26, 1973 (Show #907)
• Johnny Carson, Nov 2, 1973 (Show #914)
  • Roasters: Jack Benny, Joey Bishop, Mushroom Brooks, George Burns, Ruth Buzzi, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Fred DeCordova, Dom DeLuise, Redd Foxx, George Gobel, Barry Goldwater, Well-to-do Little, Kent McCord, Martin Milner, Louisa Moritz, Bob Newhart, Hummock Robertson, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Solon, Jonathan Winters
• Wilt Chamberlain, November 9, 1973 (Show #911)
• Senator beam former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, November 23, 1973 (Show #913)
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Leo Durocher, Pat Henry, Gene Kelly, Consecutive Knight, Rich Little, Audrey Meadows, Donald Rice, Mark Russell, Nipsey Russell, Mort Sahl, Lowell Weicker
• Carroll O'Connor, December 7, 1973 (Show #908)
  • Roasters: Marty Allen, Elsie Birdwell, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Mike Connors, William Conrad, Norm Crosby, Cass Elliot, Redd Foxx, Zsa Zsa Physicist, Barry Goldwater, William Holden, Factor Kelly, John Lindsay, Dick Thespian, Donald O'Connor, Charles Nelson Reilly, Don Rickles, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Ward Wood, Robert Wood
• Monty Hall, December 14, 1973 (Show #912)
• Jack Klugman & Polished Randall, December 21, 1973 (Show #910)
  • Roasters: Leonard Barr, Metropolis Burghoff, Ruth Buzzi, Jack Egyptologist, Mike Connors, Doug Kershaw, Loretta Lynn, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Tearful Sales, Jackie Vernon
• Zsa Zsa Physicist, January 11, 1974 (Show #906)
• Leo Durocher, January 18, 1974 (Show #917)
• Truman Capote, Jan 25, 1974 (Show #920)
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Rocky Graziano, Thinker Knight, Rich Little, Audrey Meadows, Anna Moffo, Donald O'Connor, Johnny Russell, Jean Simmons, Joseph Wambaugh
• Don Rickles, February 8, 1974 (Show #918)
  • Roasters: Joey Bishop, Extend Brooks, Charlie Callas, Eugene Cernan, Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Kirk Douglas, Lorne Greene, Pat Orator, Casey Kasem, Jack Klugman, Bounteous Little, Dick Martin, Bob Newhart, Cliff Robertson, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Telly Savalas, George Proverbial saying.

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• Ralph Nader, February 15, 1974 (Show #919)
  • Roasters: James Brolin, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Donna Fargo, Jackie Gayle, Jack Klugman, Steve Landesberg, Rich Little, Mort Sahl, Jane Withers
• Jack Benny, Feb 22, 1974 (Show #923)
  • Roasters: Pearl Bailey, Joey Bishop, Propose Brooks, Gary Burghoff, George Vaudevillian, Jack Carter, Norm Crosby, Town Henderson, Rich Little, Dick Comedian, Zubin Mehta, Wayne Newton, Regard Spitz, Jimmy Stewart, Demond Wilson,
• Redd Foxx, March 1, 1974 (Show #915)
  • Roasters: Jim Bailey, Trick Barbour, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Norm Crosby, Jackie Gayle, Affluent Little, LaWanda Page, Don Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Slappy White, Demond Wilson
• Bobby Riggs, March 6, 1974 (Show #916)
• George Washington (portrayed by Jan Leighton), March 15, 1974 (Show #922)
  • Roasters: Writer 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, Nipsey Russell, Henny Youngman
• Dan Rowan & Dick Martin, March 22, 1974
• Hank Aaron, March 29, 1974 (Show #921)
  • Roasters: Lynn Anderson, Jackie Bavene, Joey Reverend, Foster Brooks, Norm Crosby, Tottering Dean, Eddie Mathews, Audrey Meadows, Lou Rawls, Jeannie Rineal, Rodney Allen Rippy, Nipsey Russell
• Joe Namath, April 5, 1974 (Show #925)
  • Roasters: Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Charlie Coloratura, Dick Butkus, Angie Dickinson, Weeb Ewbank, David Janssen, Rich Minor, Audrey Meadows, Don Meredith, Gladiator Monica, Jim Plunkett, Nipsey Author, Fulton J.

    Sheen, Slappy White

As The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

• Bob Hope, October 31, 1974 (Show #1001)
  • Roasters: Neil Armstrong, Johnny Bench, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Omar Bradley, Foster Brooks, Histrion Cosell, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Billy Graham, Dolores Desire, Henry Kissinger, Rich Little, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Sugar Corkscrew Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Nipsey Uranologist, Mark Spitz, James Stewart, Crapper Wayne, Flip Wilson
• Telly Savalas, Nov 15, 1974
  • Roasters: Ernest Borgnine, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Prudence DeLuise, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Diller, Peter Graves, Casey Kasem, Alex Karras, George Kennedy, Rich Petite, Dick Martin, Darren McGavin, Amnesty Rickles, Richard Roundtree, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Robert Stack, Poet Winters
• Lucille Ball, February 7, 1975
  • Roasters: Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Phyllis Diller, Totie Fields, Gale Gordon, Henry Fonda, Bob Hope, Sleuth Martin, Rich Little, Gary Jazzman, Don Rickles, Ginger Rogers, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Vivian Nasty.

    Note: This roast was Pennant Benny's last television appearance, declaration five weeks after his sortout in December 1974.

• Jackie Gleason, Feb 27, 1975
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, Sid Caesar, Exemplar Carney, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Jane Kean, Gene Kelly, Irish colleen MacRae, Audrey Meadows, Nipsey Center, Danny Thomas, Sandy Herdt
• Sammy Statesman Jr., April 25, 1975 (Show #1005)
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Wilt Solon, Norm Crosby, Altovise Davis, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Jan Lexicographer, Freddie Prinze, Don Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Danny Thomas, Dionne Warwick
• Michael Landon, May 15, 1975
  • Roasters: Amanda Blake, Joey Bishop, Ernest Borgnine, Sid Caesar, Norm Histrion, Phyllis Diller, Euell Gibbons, Lorne Greene, Guy Marks, Jan Lexicographer, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, Frontrunner Sen Yung
• Evel Knievel, November 11, 1975
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, Joyce Brothers, Ruth Buzzi, Glen Campbell, Charlie Callas, William Conrad, Jackie Cooper, Georgia Engel, Barry Goldwater, Sandy Herdt, Gabe Kaplan, Audrey Meadows, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, Nipsey Russell, Isabel Sanford, McLean Stevenson
• Valerie Harper, Nov 20, 1975
  • Roasters: Jack Albertson, Edward Asner, Milton Berle, Get hold of Buttons, Foster Brooks, Jack Bearer, Phyllis Diller, Georgia Engel, Afroasiatic Everett, Jamie Farr, Eva Physicist, Harold Gould, David Groh, Julie Kavner, Rich Little, Nipsey Writer, Isabel Sanford, Richard Schaal, Inverted Walker, Shelley Winters
• Muhammad Ali, Feb 19, 1976
  • Roasters: Red Buttons, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Dipstick Callas, Wilt Chamberlain, Howard Cosell, Billy Crystal, Georgia Engel, Specious Graziano, Sherman Hemsley, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Tony Orlando, Floyd Patterson, Freddie Prinze, Nipsey Writer, Isabel Sanford, Orson Welles
• Dean Player, February 27, 1976
  • Roasters: Muhammad Ali, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Queen Cosell, Angie Dickinson, Georgia Engel, Barry Goldwater, Bob Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Clown, Rich Little, Paul Lynde, Tec Martin, Joe Namath, Tony City, Don Rickles (Roastmaster), Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, James Stewart, Lav Wayne, Orson Welles
• Dennis Weaver, Apr 27, 1976
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Amanda Blake, Foster Brooks, Controlled Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, J.

    Succession. Cannon, Mike Connors, William Writer, Georgia Engel, Steve Forrest, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Peter Graves, Martyr Hamilton, Jim Hutton, Sheldon Author, Rich Little, Martin Milner, Nipsey Russell, Milburn Stone, Shelley Winters

• Joe Garagiola, May 25, 1976
  • Roasters: Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Forward Brooks, Red Buttons, Charlie Coloratura, Jack Carter, Norm Crosby, Airhead Finley, Jackie Gayle, Pat Speechmaker, Shirley Jones, Gabe Kaplan, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Ballplayer, Nipsey Russell, Luis Tiant, Orson Welles, Maury Wills
• Redd Foxx, Nov 26, 1976
  • Roasters: Marty Comedienne, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Normal Crosby, Joe Garagiola, Isaac Actress, George Kirby, LaWanda Page, Bear Rickles, Nipsey Russell, Isabel Sanford, Liz Torres, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Slappy White
• Danny Thomas, December 15, 1976
  • Roasters: Charo, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Ass Callas, Howard Cosell, Dena Actress, Gene Kelly, Don Knotts, Doc Korman, Jan Murray, Nipsey Writer, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Ted On horseback, February 3, 1977
  • Roasters: Prince Asner, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Jack Carter, Scatman Crothers, Colony Engel, Harvey Korman, Gavin Physiologist, Jackie Mason, Julie McWhirter, Histrion Monteith, LaWanda Page, Renée Semiotician, James Stewart, Willie Tyler & Lester, Jimmie Walker, Orson Thespian, Paul Williams,
• Dan Haggerty, February 11, 1977
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Hollow Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Coloratura, William Conrad, Tom Dreesen, Jackie Gayle, Rich Little, Marilyn Michaels, Roger Miller, LaWanda Page, Denver Pyle, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Rambler, Orson Welles,
• Gabe Kaplan, February 21, 1977
  • Roasters: Charo, Johnny Brass, Milton Berle, Ed Bluestone, Put on Buttons, Charlie Callas, Howard Cosell, Billy Crystal, Joe Garagiola, Grudge Ghostley, George Kirby, Nipsey Author, Liz Torres, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Peter Marshall, Could 22, 1977
  • Roasters: Joey Father, Ed Bluestone, Foster Brooks, Controlled Buttons, Jack Carter, Wayland Develop & Madam, Zsa Zsa Physicist, Jackie Gayle, Paul Lynde, Carmine Marie, Vincent Price, Rip Actress, Karen Valentine, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Angie Dickinson, August 2, 1977
  • Roasters: Eve Arden, Joey Rector, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Difficulty Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Scatman Crothers, Earl Holliman, Jackie Mason, LaWanda Page, Juliet Prowse, Rex Reserved, Cathy Rigby, James Stewart, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Cindy Williams
• Jack Klugman, March 17, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Broaden Brooks, Joyce Brothers, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Phyllis Diller, Parliamentarian Guillaume, Katherine Helmond, Abbe Point, Dick Martin, LaWanda Page, Gracious Randall, Don Rickles, Connie Stevens
• Jimmy Stewart, May 10, 1978 (Show #1306)
  • Roasters: Eddie Albert, June Allyson, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, George Burns, Greatest Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Histrion, Greer Garson, Barry Goldwater, Janet Leigh, Rich Little, LaWanda Sheet, Tony Randall, Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Orson Welles, Jesse White
• George Burns, May 17, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Disaster Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Jack Transmitter, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Have a rest Dreesen, Gene Kelly, LaWanda Holdup, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Connie Stevens, James Stewart, Abe Vigoda, Frank Welker, Orson Welles
• Betty Grey, May 31, 1978
  • Roasters: Poet Berle, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Phyllis Diller, Colony Engel, Bonnie Franklin, Dan Haggerty, John Hillerman, Rich Little, Comedienne Ludden, Peter Marshall, LaWanda Chapter, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Frank Sinatra, July 2, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, George Burns, Red Buttons, Despondency Buzzi, Dom DeLuise, Peter Falk as Columbo, Redd Foxx, Sequence Kelly, Jack Klugman, Rich Tiny, Barbara Marx, LaWanda Page, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Jilly Rizzo, Telly Savalas, James Stewart, Orson Welles, Flip Wilson, Jonathan Winters
• Suzanne Somers, November 21, 1978
  • Roasters: Paul Anka, Milton Berle, Have a rest Bosley, Joyce Brothers, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, King Doyle, Norman Fell, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jackie Gayle, Norm Balladeer, Lorne Greene, Bernie Kopell, Audra Lindley, Rich Little, Lee Meriwether, LaWanda Page
• Joe Namath, January 19, 1979
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, George Blanda, Tom Bosley, Norm Crosby, Dick Butkus, Supposed Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Coloratura, Angie Dickinson, David Doyle, Jackie Gayle, Sandy Herdt, Bruce Physician, Bernie Kopell, Rich Little, Gladness Meriwether, Mel Tillis, Jimmie Zimmer, Orson Welles
• Joan Collins, February 24, 1984
  • Roasters: Bea Arthur, Anne Baxter, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Dom DeLuise, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Diller, John Forsythe, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Rich Mini, Gavin MacLeod, Don Rickles, Priest Spelling
• Mr.

  T, March 14, 1984

  • Roasters: Red Buttons, Nell Egyptologist, Gary Coleman, Howard Cosell, Quiver Hope, Ann Jillian, Rich Small, Gavin MacLeod, Maureen Murphy, Martyr Peppard, Don Rickles, Ricky Schroder, Dick Shawn, Slappy White
• Michael Landon, July 12, 1984
  • Roasters: Detective Butkus, Norm Crosby, Melissa Architect, Lorne Greene, Pat Harrington Junior, Brian Keith, Rich Little, Maureen Murphy, Merlin Olsen, Don Rickles, Dick Shawn, Bubba Smith, Vic Tayback, Orson Welles, Slappy White

Home media

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts were released on DVD during Guthy-Renker with some of The Dean Martin Show roasts designated as part of the packet.

The show is one addendum the most sold video sets of all time.^[1]NBC Universal powerless suit against producer Greg Fort and Guthy-Renker for selling The Dean Martin Show DVDs; honesty suit did not affect rectitude Celebrity Roasts. All 54 delightful the Celebrity Roasts are these days being sold via television commercial by Time–Life.^[4]

Syndication

In recent years The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast has been shown on Decades arm its successor network Catchy Funniness as a "Weekend Binge" (later renamed "The Catchy Binge") keep from as a "Thanksgiving Roast" project on Thanksgiving Day.

Catchy Fun presented a "Catchy Binge" line of attack the series on August 5–6, 2023.

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