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In comedy, The Roast is a specific kind of comedy performance. Typically mixed with a banquet, the Roast is, at its basest, where one comic (or other kind of personality/celebrity) is brought on stage to be made fun of by a collection of his/her closest friends. The standardbearers for the Roast are the New York Friar's Club, who have been roasting celebrities since the early 1950s. Only rarely have these been seen by the rest of the world, either in video offers seen on late-night TV or through [[Comedy Central]], who got the rights to broadcast a few of them in the early 2000s. Another series of roasts were hosted by [[Dean Martin]] in the 1970s (he was the roastmaster for all of them), and recently revived thanks to those late night [[Infomercial|Infomercials]] by Guthy-Renker.