Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Len Cariou arrives for the Friars Club Roast of Quentin Tarantino at the Hilton ...

The Friars Club of New York has long been known as a hallowed hall for laughs. Their roasts, televised on Comedy Central in the early 2000’s, have often become the stuff of legend, for better (Gilbert ...

Legendary Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is getting in the hot seat to be roasted by the Friars Club. "It's an honor the Friars Club has deemed me worthy of roasting," Weinstein said in a ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celebrities and comedians showed up in full force to roast legendary comedic actress Betty White on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City. While ...

"When a man subjects himself to being honored at the hands of the Friars," the New York Tribune wrote in 1910, "he needs a steel corselet to repel the jabs of his kidders." The celebrity roast had ...

If you’re not familiar with Jeff Ross, he is best known as the “Roastmaster General” — a three-decade master of the savage comic sport introduced by the Friars Club in the 1950s, in which a procession ...

Tracy Morgan was roasted by The Friars Club at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, but one of the sharpest jabs was pointed at attendee Anthony Weiner. A source tells us comic Sherri Shepherd was making comedic ...

The New York Friars Club has picked its newest victim for its often imitated, never duplicated celebrity roast - former Bengals quarterback, Boomer Esiason. "I have been pummeled, crushed, trampled, ...

Betty White is to be roasted by the New York Friars' Club this spring. The Hot in Cleveland star's life and extraordinary career will the subject of fodder for comedians on May 16 in New York City.

If you're not familiar with Jeff Ross, he is best known as the "Roastmaster General" - a three-decade master of the savage comic sport introduced by the Friars Club in the 1950s, in which a procession ...