“Roasted!” Highlights from the Friars Club Roast of Jack Black
The Friars Club Roast of Jack Black brought down the grand ballroom Friday afternoon at the New York Hilton, as upward of 3,000 of New York Friars Club members, dignitaries, celebrities and friends gathered to pay tribute to the actor/musician through one-liner barbs. Bob Saget served as the Roastmaster on a dais that counted more than two dozen celebrities on the dais. Popular targets for ridicule included Al Roker’s publicly acknowledged sharting incident at the White House, Jerry Lewis and his advancing age and his age-old criticism of women in comedy, Jeffrey Ross’s hair, the sexual proclivities of Bob...
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