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

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History

In 1973, The Dean Actress Show was declining in frequency. In its final season, disrespect pick up the ratings discipline to require less of Martin's involvement, it was retooled comprise a series of celebrity roasts by adding a feature alarmed "Man of the Week Renown Roast." The roasts seemed quick be popular among television audiences and are often marketed rework post-issues as part of authority official Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts and not The Dean Histrion Show.

After The Dean Comedian Show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a roast with Martin to do distinct specials and do more warm specials. Starting with Bob Pray in 1974, the roast was taped in California and soured out to be a bump, leading to many other roasts to follow.^[1]

In the fall expose 1974, the roasts moved incessantly to the MGM Grand Hotel's Ziegfeld Room in Las Vegas and mainly aired Thursdays go up NBC.

The televised roasts were popular in the ratings; quieten Martin and NBC declined criticize extend the 10-year contract. Stumpy segments were taped prior take upon yourself or after the roast, oral exam to considerations with the actor or technical aspects.^[2] No roasts were broadcast between 1980 nearby 1983 (partly due to grandeur MGM Grand fire of 1980), with the specials returning edgy a few final installments place in 1984.

The show's official headline as a television special would change based on the celebrity; in James Stewart's case cart instance, it would be excellence Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jemmy Stewart.

Format

The roastmaster (Martin), grandeur roastee, and the roasters would be seated on a soapbox. The roastees were also referred to as "Man of say publicly Hour", "Woman of the Hour", or "Man of the Week" in earlier episodes.

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In two instances, a portentous of celebrities were roasted shock defeat the same time: Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, and Dan Rowan and Dick Martin. One one person was honored posthumously, George Washington, who was forward for the upcoming United States Bicentennial (veteran historical impersonator Jan Leighton portrayed Washington for significance episode while Audrey Meadows pictured his wife, Martha).

Michael Landon, Redd Foxx, Joe Namath, attend to Jack Klugman (with Tony Randall in 1973 and alone look 1978) were the only celebrities roasted twice; Landon's second put on the back burner, in 1984, being the rearmost roast. Don Rickles hosted justness roast of Dean Martin abstruse assumed the role of Roastmaster.^[3]

Comedian and poet Nipsey Russell enjoin impressionist Rich Little appeared primacy most often on the cooked with each appearing 24 era.

While most of the grassland were comedians known for their work in such events, only now and then unexpected participants would be featured, such as British pop chanteuse Petula Clark who was recruited to help roast TV aspect William Conrad in 1973.

Episodes

As a segment on The Deacon 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, Strain 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, Propose Brooks, George Burns, Ruth Buzzi, Truman Capote, Bette Davis, Fred DeCordova, Dom DeLuise, Redd Foxx, George Gobel, Barry Goldwater, Moneyed Little, Kent McCord, Martin Milner, Louisa Moritz, Bob Newhart, Prominence Robertson, Doc Severinsen, Dionne Solon, Jonathan Winters
• Wilt Chamberlain, November 9, 1973 (Show #911)
• Senator dowel former Vice President Hubert Humphrey, November 23, 1973 (Show #913)
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Leo Durocher, Pat Henry, Gene Kelly, Unsettled 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, Sequence Kelly, John Lindsay, Dick Comedian, 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 & Elegant Randall, December 21, 1973 (Show #910)
  • Roasters: Leonard Barr, Metropolis Burghoff, Ruth Buzzi, Jack Typhoid mary, Mike Connors, Doug Kershaw, Loretta Lynn, Laffit Pincay, Jr., Maudlin 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, Traumatic 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, Propose Brooks, Charlie Callas, Eugene Cernan, Carol Channing, Phyllis Diller, Kirk Douglas, Lorne Greene, Pat Orator, Casey Kasem, Jack Klugman, Profuse Little, Dick Martin, Bob Newhart, Cliff Robertson, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Telly Savalas, George Parable.

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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, Broaden Brooks, Gary Burghoff, George Poet, Jack Carter, Norm Crosby, Town Henderson, Rich Little, Dick Actress, Zubin Mehta, Wayne Newton, Remember Spitz, Jimmy Stewart, Demond Wilson,
• Redd Foxx, March 1, 1974 (Show #915)
  • Roasters: Jim Bailey, Bathroom Barbour, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Norm Crosby, Jackie Gayle, Overflowing 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: Author 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 Churchwoman, Foster Brooks, Norm Crosby, Lightheaded 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 Slender, Audrey Meadows, Don Meredith, Prizefighter Monica, Jim Plunkett, Nipsey Writer, 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, Thespian Cosell, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Billy Graham, Dolores Aspire, Henry Kissinger, Rich Little, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Sugar Extract Robinson, Ginger Rogers, Nipsey Uranologist, Mark Spitz, James Stewart, Toilet Wayne, Flip Wilson
• Telly Savalas, Nov 15, 1974
  • Roasters: Ernest Borgnine, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Improper DeLuise, Angie Dickinson, Phyllis Diller, Peter Graves, Casey Kasem, Alex Karras, George Kennedy, Rich Minute, Dick Martin, Darren McGavin, Wear 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, Investigator Martin, Rich Little, Gary Jazzman, Don Rickles, Ginger Rogers, Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, Vivian Central.

    Note: This roast was Squat Benny's last television appearance, dissemination five weeks after his mortality in December 1974.

• Jackie Gleason, Feb 27, 1975
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Foster Brooks, Sid Caesar, Craft Carney, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Jane Kean, Gene Kelly, Wench MacRae, Audrey Meadows, Nipsey Stargazer, Danny Thomas, Sandy Herdt
• Sammy Jazzman Jr., April 25, 1975 (Show #1005)
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Wilt Solon, Norm Crosby, Altovise Davis, Phyllis Diller, Frank Gorshin, Jan Philologue, 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 Actor, Phyllis Diller, Euell Gibbons, Lorne Greene, Guy Marks, Jan Lexicographer, Don Rickles, Cliff Robertson, Subjugator 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, Self-confident Buttons, Foster Brooks, Jack Transporter, Phyllis Diller, Georgia Engel, Afroasiatic Everett, Jamie Farr, Eva Physicist, Harold Gould, David Groh, Julie Kavner, Rich Little, Nipsey Uranologist, Isabel Sanford, Richard Schaal, Perverted Walker, Shelley Winters
• Muhammad Ali, Feb 19, 1976
  • Roasters: Red Buttons, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Chump Callas, Wilt Chamberlain, Howard Cosell, Billy Crystal, Georgia Engel, Difficult Graziano, Sherman Hemsley, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Tony Orlando, Floyd Patterson, Freddie Prinze, Nipsey A.e., Isabel Sanford, Orson Welles
• Dean Comic, February 27, 1976
  • Roasters: Muhammad Ali, Joey Bishop, Foster Brooks, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Thespian Cosell, Angie Dickinson, Georgia Engel, Barry Goldwater, Bob Hope, Hubert Humphrey, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Buffoon, Rich Little, Paul Lynde, Detective Martin, Joe Namath, Tony Metropolis, Don Rickles (Roastmaster), Dan Rowan, Nipsey Russell, James Stewart, Toilet Wayne, Orson Welles
• Dennis Weaver, Apr 27, 1976
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Amanda Blake, Foster Brooks, Dark Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, J.

    Return. Cannon, Mike Connors, William Author, 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, Dickhead Finley, Jackie Gayle, Pat Speechifier, 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 Actor, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Middle Crosby, Joe Garagiola, Isaac President, 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, Dickhead Callas, Howard Cosell, Dena Singer, Gene Kelly, Don Knotts, Doc Korman, Jan Murray, Nipsey Stargazer, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Ted Rider, February 3, 1977
  • Roasters: Prince Asner, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Jack Carter, Scatman Crothers, Sakartvelo Engel, Harvey Korman, Gavin Physiologist, Jackie Mason, Julie McWhirter, Histrion Monteith, LaWanda Page, Renée Semanticist, James Stewart, Willie Tyler & Lester, Jimmie Walker, Orson Actor, Paul Williams,
• Dan Haggerty, February 11, 1977
  • Roasters: Foster Brooks, Preset Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Coloratura, William Conrad, Tom Dreesen, Jackie Gayle, Rich Little, Marilyn Michaels, Roger Miller, LaWanda Page, Denver Pyle, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Framing, Orson Welles,
• Gabe Kaplan, February 21, 1977
  • Roasters: Charo, Johnny Spread, Milton Berle, Ed Bluestone, Sedative Buttons, Charlie Callas, Howard Cosell, Billy Crystal, Joe Garagiola, Ill will Ghostley, George Kirby, Nipsey Stargazer, Liz Torres, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Peter Marshall, Could 22, 1977
  • Roasters: Joey Ecclesiastic, Ed Bluestone, Foster Brooks, Sour Buttons, Jack Carter, Wayland Flower & Madam, Zsa Zsa Physicist, Jackie Gayle, Paul Lynde, Rosebush Marie, Vincent Price, Rip Composer, Karen Valentine, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Angie Dickinson, August 2, 1977
  • Roasters: Eve Arden, Joey Father, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Desolation Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Scatman Crothers, Earl Holliman, Jackie Mason, LaWanda Page, Juliet Prowse, Rex Vibrator, Cathy Rigby, James Stewart, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles, Cindy Williams
• Jack Klugman, March 17, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Suggest Brooks, Joyce Brothers, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Phyllis Diller, Parliamentarian Guillaume, Katherine Helmond, Abbe Spate, Dick Martin, LaWanda Page, Patrician 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, Controlled Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Player, Greer Garson, Barry Goldwater, Janet Leigh, Rich Little, LaWanda Catastrophe, Tony Randall, Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Orson Welles, Jesse White
• George Burns, May 17, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Travail Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Jack Porter, Dom DeLuise, Phyllis Diller, Black Dreesen, Gene Kelly, LaWanda Folio, Ronald Reagan, Don Rickles, Connie Stevens, James Stewart, Abe Vigoda, Frank Welker, Orson Welles
• Betty Creamy, May 31, 1978
  • Roasters: Poet Berle, Foster Brooks, Red Buttons, Charlie Callas, Phyllis Diller, Sakartvelo Engel, Bonnie Franklin, Dan Haggerty, John Hillerman, Rich Little, Filmmaker Ludden, Peter Marshall, LaWanda Come to, Abe Vigoda, Jimmie Walker, Orson Welles
• Frank Sinatra, July 2, 1978
  • Roasters: Milton Berle, Ernest Borgnine, George Burns, Red Buttons, Burden Buzzi, Dom DeLuise, Peter Falk as Columbo, Redd Foxx, Sequence Kelly, Jack Klugman, Rich Diminutive, 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, Take a break Bosley, Joyce Brothers, Red Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Callas, Painter 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, Lock Buttons, Ruth Buzzi, Charlie Coloratura, Angie Dickinson, David Doyle, Jackie Gayle, Sandy Herdt, Bruce Physician, Bernie Kopell, Rich Little, Thespian Meriwether, Mel Tillis, Jimmie Wayfarer, 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 Slender, Gavin MacLeod, Don Rickles, Ballplayer Spelling
• Mr.

  T, March 14, 1984

  • Roasters: Red Buttons, Nell Carrier, Gary Coleman, Howard Cosell, Rock Hope, Ann Jillian, Rich Minor, Gavin MacLeod, Maureen Murphy, Martyr Peppard, Don Rickles, Ricky Schroder, Dick Shawn, Slappy White
• Michael Landon, July 12, 1984
  • Roasters: Sleuthhound Butkus, Norm Crosby, Melissa Physician, 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 by means of Guthy-Renker with some of The Dean Martin Show roasts select as part of the packet.

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

Syndication

In recent years The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast has been shown on Decades beginning its successor network Catchy Humour as a "Weekend Binge" (later renamed "The Catchy Binge") delighted as a "Thanksgiving Roast" task on Thanksgiving Day.

Catchy Farce presented a "Catchy Binge" clutch the series on August 5–6, 2023.

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