{"id":12979,"date":"2023-10-18T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12979"},"modified":"2023-11-06T20:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T20:10:57","slug":"the-roast-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/10\/18\/the-roast-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roast Is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/10\/the-age-of-the-comedy-roast-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from UnHerd<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The age of the comedy roast is over<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Satirical annihilation has become a sanitised ritual<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/author\/oliver-bateman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OLIVER BATEMAN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n78g5zfvADA\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The spotlight beams down on the stage, illuminating the faces of the evening\u2019s celebrities, who are seated in a semicircle like ancient oracles of comedy. At the centre of it all is the roastee \u2014 the guest of honour \u2014 who will soon be subjected to a brutal barrage of jokes. \u201cJames Franco\u2026\u201d started Natasha Leggero\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CkgEt6SHyfc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demolition job<\/a>&nbsp;10 years ago. \u201cActing, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing \u2014 is there anything you&nbsp;<em>can<\/em>&nbsp;do?\u201d Then there was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lostmediawiki.com\/Gilbert_Gottfried%27s_9\/11_joke_(found_footage_from_Friars_Club_Roast_of_Hugh_Hefner;_2001)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gilbert Gottfried\u2019s audacious pivot<\/a>&nbsp;at the Hugh Hefner Roast, held just two weeks after 9\/11, which descended into the \u201cfilthiest joke ever told\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as much as these moments underscore the art form\u2019s past audacity, they also highlight the pallor that has settled over it. Once a platform for such biting wits as Don Rickles and Joan Rivers, the comedy roast has become a sanitised ritual, a showcase of quips that hardly go beyond the skin. Perhaps the last time we heard a roast joke that truly shocked was in 2019, when Blake Griffin took the mic to thank\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/blake-griffin-roasts-caitlyn-jenner-over-daughters-daddy-issues\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlyn Jenner<\/a>\u00a0\u201con behalf of black men everywhere\u201d for giving her daughters \u201cdaddy issues\u201d. Since then, roasts have transitioned into an assembly line of safe, formulaic jokes that don\u2019t even scratch the surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet looking at the roast\u2019s decline, perhaps it\u2019s understandable that nowhere in the entertainment world is the existential crisis over the rise of AI more palpable than in comedy. After all, there is no field of creative endeavour that\u2019s become more dependent on cliches, groupthink and repetition. But while the malaise is widespread, the roast, in particular, looks set to be an early casualty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2023\/10\/the-age-of-the-comedy-roast-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at UnHerd<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from UnHerd The age of the comedy roast is over Satirical annihilation has become a sanitised ritual BY\u00a0OLIVER BATEMAN The spotlight beams down on the stage, illuminating the faces of the evening\u2019s celebrities, who are seated in a semicircle like ancient oracles of comedy. At the centre of it all is the roastee \u2014 the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}