Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner

It is William Shatner's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast...

I love Shatner, and his career is the stuff of legends. I enjoyed his roast, but sadly, it just does not seem to hold up strongly for the full time frame... Betty White was great to see, but even the normally funny Patton Oswalt did not have his heart in this.

And the jokes were repetitive. A career of 50 years, and we have to keep going over the same "Star Trek" humor and references to "Rocket Man"? He was so much more than that. Where were the gremlins on the wing? Lastly, Jason Alexander is a terrible host. I am so glad that Seth MacFarlane seems to have taken over the job on a semi-permanent basis.

My god, this was a gut-bustingly funny roast! Of the Comedy Central roasts that are available on Amazon Video, I think that this one is the best. While recently they have resorted to roasting people who perhaps haven't had enough of a career to warrant being celebrated this way (which is technically what this is supposed to be). Fortunately, Shatner is not a flavor-of-the-moment celebrity who happens to have done a bunch of stupid stuff with which to throw in his face. He earned his spot here. Everything is touched upon, from his unique acting style, singing career(?!), commercials, relationships with his fellow Star Trek cast members, etc. Yes, the humor was heavily scatological, but I've come to accept that as a fact of modern comedy, with these roasts in particular. On top of that, this has what is surely the best dais of all 15 Comedy Central roasts. If you're very selective about what you buy or watch (at least in terms of these comedy specials), the William Shatner roast is definitely one to get.

The Comedy Central roast of William Shatner is some pretty funny stuff!

A variety of people ranging from former costars and friends to unknown comics come together to roast the legendary William Shatner.

Many of the jokes are hilarious. A few jokes are pretty cringe! A couple of people like Betty White surprise us and end up being much more funny than you could ever imagine.

Farrah Fawcett is there. She seems like she's high or drunk. She acts so strange most of the roast.

Anyway, if you enjoy these Comedy Central roasts, this one has been released on DVD for you to enjoy over and over again.

There were some funny parts of this DVD, but the crudeness went a bit overboard. I thought it was a roast of Shatner, yet the roasters attacked each other and few comments were made about Shatner. Andy Dick was pitiful and made your skin crawl, Farrah looked to be high and brainless, and Artie Lange was a slob. A couple of the roasters were funny, but the constant oral sex jokes about George Takei went on for too long. This is something those who like insults would enjoy, but it is not something that someone used to the TRUE roasts, of the past, would like to sit down and watch. William Shatner's part was the funniest part of the entire DVD and you have to sit through a lot of garbage to get to Shatner's part.

I love this roast, and it could have been easily top 5. I've never seen it full, because Paramount+ cut a large portion of it out, but from what I've seen, it's a great roast. There's just one reason why it isn't Top 5, though. The crowd. Oh, the crowd. They were basically silent the whole time. If this roast had a crowd like the roast of Flavor Flav, it would have been easily top 5. I'm not doing a roaster-by-roaster review of this roast. I just want to talk about the crowd. Why was this crowd basically silent? This was one of the greatest roasts ever. And it's insane that the crowd at this roast was virtually silent, when the crowds at the roasts of Bob Saget and James Franco, both godawful roasts, were loud as hell. I love this roast, but the crowd was the worst.