“The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast” (1974-84) Dean Martin gathered true Hollywood royalty for his legendary televised roasts. The Queen of Comedy herself, Lucille Ball, was placed in the hot seat back ...

The only thing thicker in the air than the cigarette smoke and packing a bigger kick than the cocktails were the insults. “The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts” celebrated the art of the put-down, but ...

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts belong to that category of pop culture ephemera that manages to embody all the excesses of its immediate cultural moment and yet survives the passage of time and taste ...