“Ann, your set was the only bombing you couldn’t blame in Muslims...” [paraphrased] was pretty excellent.

The prostitute joke was one of the moments I noticed that it seemed like Jeff Ross was trying pretty hard to get her to loosen up/actually enjoy it the way everyone else was. He kept looking back at her and gesturing to her and it didn’t seem at all like he was being an asshole. It’s in his best interest to have her…

I watched the roast, she is a disgusting and vile human being and gives women a bad name. She bombed and she promoted her book and thought she was funny, she was not.

“As a feminist, I can’t support everything being said up here tonight. As somebody who hates Ann Coulter, I’m delighted. Jeff Ross is going to party like it’s 1999. Ann Coulter is going to vote like it’s 1899. Ann, you do look great, though. You’re almost as thin as Donald Trump’s chances of winning the election. It’s…

I think you’re missing the point of a roast... The jokes are supposed to be really mean. Roasters make fun of each other’s appearances all the time. And in the case of Ann Coulter, she deserves all the mean shit that’s being thrown her way. The jokes are as lowbrow as the person they are making fun of.

Seth Rogen’s bit about Nick Kroll as the “scary Jew face that haunts Mel Gibson’s nightmares” was one of the funniest look based insults I ever heard at a roast.

But the whole idea of a “roast” is that it’s basically the opposite of proposing a “toast.” It’s meant to be a pull-no-punches, shit-giving, insult fest at the person that’s being “honored” (and the other participants).

It doesn’t mean the comedian is actually racist, misogynist, etc.—it’s just that his/her job is…

Maybe the supercut left some things out. I have no idea. I know that Rob Lowe had a pretty good one about how this was one bomb she couldn’t blame on Muslims. He also called her set an abortion, which actually kind of shocked me and was a decently constructed joke. A couple others made Klan jokes. Jewel had a funny…

I’m rehashing - but the bottom line is that these roasts are equal opportunity take-downs:

I watched the whole roast and there were wayyyyy more jokes about her being a horrible racist KKK bitch than sexist jokes. Although there was one about her fucking Bill Maher that I enjoyed.

Maybe since I don’t really watch roasts, I should just stay in my lane...

Weak.. They also made fun of Peyton and his giant head the whole time. Its a freaking roast. She has no sense of humor, couldnt take and joke and obviously has no clue how others view here.

Plenty of reasons, I guess. One is that the jokes are directed specifically at a celebrity, not at a group in general. This can make a joke that would ordinarily feel like punching down (“black guys all have 5 baby mamas lol”) feel more like punching up, or sideways (“Ludacris has 5 baby mamas lol”). Related, the…

True, like it or not Peyton Manning got a lot of jokes about his forehead and possibly missing a chromosomes and he laughed.

But, like, half of the jokes at a roast are about how a person looks? This is true even for the men.

Exactly. It’s a ROAST. The jokes are all formulaic and hacky and sexist and racist and everything-else-ist and imho it’s one of the few venues where jokes like that have a place. Out of the context of a roast this kind of comedy makes my skin crawl. But in context, I can appreciate it.

I think going after looks is standard fare on Roasts. I understand that may not be everyone’s brand of humor, but it is intended to be mean. She wasn’t treated uniquely in that department.

Have you not watched a roast before? They pretty much go after the lowest hanging fruit, and all race/gender jokes are fair game. It’s kind of the point to be misogynist to a shitty woman.

I agree with you in general, but don’t all the roasters go after all the other roaster’s looks? I may be wrong but that seems like something that has been done in perpetuity. I feel like that’s kind of par for the course.

I mean, as Jewel said: “As a feminist, I can’t support everything that’s being said tonight, but as somebody who hates Ann Coulter, I’m delighted.”