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Unfunniest roasts: Lewis Black, Lovitz, Garlin, McDonald, Silverman


McDonald's performance was such a huge stinker. I vote it as the worst. You could see the awkwardness in everyone's faces, those jokes were just so cringingly unfunny. Is he just not funny, or did he deliberately make them vague and dry ?

Silverman had a few good lines but her set just wasn't that good.

Giraldo also wasn't that funny, but he was better than quite a few of the performers.


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I disagree completely. Norm's set was the funniest, then Cloris, while everyone else sucked ass.

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Norm's was on purpose, and hilarious.Lewis Black was the worst.

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jeff garlin was awesome! what the hell are you talking about? the joke about leachman had me almost peeing my pants

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What the hell are you talking about?I never mentioned Garlin.

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i wasn't replying to you progeny

the op has garlin in his subject line do im pretty sure hes talking about him.

calm down.

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You did reply to me.

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Wow...ok

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relax progeny

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You guys need to stop overreacting.Leesy1998 replied to my post by questioning an opinion that I didn't give. I corrected her and she denied doing it. I told her that she did. That's it.Both of you need to calm down.

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I'm pretty calm. Took a chill pill.

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Corrected her*

but seriously its not that big of a deal who replied to whom

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Sorry

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Except that Lessy did not directly reply to you; she was replying to the OP who did mention Garlin. Just because her post followed yours doesn't mean she was talking to you.

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To reply to a post you need to hit the "reply" button on that post. She posted it as a reply to me. Which means she hit the button on my post. That's why I replied when she asked me "What the hell [I was] talking about" and proceeded to correct my opinion on Jeff Garlin. An Opinion that do not have nor ever expressed.Anyone over the age of ten should be able to figure this out.

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listen, I'm well over the age of ten, so i have the ability to put some pieces together. If you never made a comment about Jeff Garlin, then its safe to say my comment about Jeff Garlin neither corrects nor applies to yours.

Anyone over the age of ten should be able to figure that out.

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I think Jon Lovitz's act was only funny to Jon Lovitz fans, such as myself. He's got an awkward, creeper style that only certain people like.

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valijeanlover. AND YES I AM REPLYING TO YOU... i think jon lovitz its totally unfunny he's about as funny as a carlos mencia, dane cook, and lewis black martini (i hate lewis black if you dont hate him replace his name with someone elses)

his act and i have sat through a 30 min stand up of his... barely i really really just wanted andy dick to get super buff and spin him around like a pizza dough...

and yes i am an andy dick fan...

(but i could care less about that drama bull between these two guys i just think lovitz has the humor of a five year old talking about how massive his stool was) dosent matter how big or impressive it still stinks and needs to be disposed of

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Dude, no need to be so hostile, I really don't care all that much about Jon Lovitz. I find him funny. Will I defend him to the death? Hell no. And I don't care if you're an Andy Dick fan. Me saying I thought Jon Lovitz was funny is niether an attack on you, Andy Dick, or any Andy Dick fans.

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Are you kidding?! Giraldo was HILARIOUS! "You are a vortex of artistic compromise, Charlie Sheen watches you and feels good about himself...", "you have the sex appeal of a school bus fire!"

How is that not funny?

Hey, I'm a child of divorce. Give me a break.

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dread2050, I do agree with you that lovitz, mencia, cook, and Lewis Black are not that funny. But Andy Dick is the unfunniest of them all. Does he even do stand-up ?

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Norm was one of the funniest, just because of how his skit was like nails on chalkboard compared to everyone else's. That and the bit about the blueberries was well done.

I'll tell you who was the worst...Lovitz and Silverman. My God.

Seriously, I expected more of Lovitz, but once he launched into his second song, I wanted to find an ancient potion for getting those 2 minutes of my life back, plus annihilate every TV on the planet. I did like his ending part about "i'd continue, but it starts to get gross". That was good. he had a couple other little tidbits in there that i chuckled at, but he just drew it out waaay too long.

And Silverman. She was a little funnier to me the second time watching it, but she was horrible!

Gilbert was downright histerical. Loved his bit. Cloris was good, but more in one of those ways that it was because she's a bit of a diva...otherwise, none too spectacular.

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You're right. I hated Silverman's roast (she's a horrible comedienne) and I couldn't watch Lovitz's. But I absolutely disagree with you, I think norm's was the worst. He was never a great comedian. I've seen his stand-up routine, he's not a smart guy.

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I thought Jeff Garlin, Norm McDonald, Lewis Black and Jon Lovitz gave the worst roasts. Lewis Black's was the worst, then Norm McDonald was the wort, then Lovitz, then Garlin.

Lewis Black's was the worst. I though all his jokes were weak. That's very shocking, because I'm a huge fan of Lewis Black and he had the potential to out-do everyone else at the roast. It's like he barely had anything to say about Bob Saget.

Norm McDonald needs to reinvent himself, because I don't feel anything but boredom with his style. He talks too slow, his material is weak and he fails to get my attention. I get the impression that he doesn't write material, but pulls it out of nowhere, but he has a hard time thinking of what to say, which causes his slowness to string jokes into an act. He was only funny when people were joking about him, and he just sits there submissively taking it.

Jon Lovitz's roast sucked too. I think he had great jokes, but the way he presented them was not great at all. He tried to be vulgar and offensive without being vulgar or offensive... and that's impossible. He acted pretty sissy-like on stage, and that doesn't help him.

Lastly, Jeff Garlin. You people [mostly] seem to like his roast, but as for me, I thought it was just plain stupid. He went up as a character and roasted the entire way through as that character? Andy Dick did it in Pamela Anderson's roast, and now Jeff Garlin did it? Is that supposed to be funny, a Jewish comedian impersonating a Jew? All he did was add a stereotypical Jewish accent. The actual content of the roast was weak. The only funny part I found in Garlin's roast was where he mocked John Stamos for pronouncing the name "Sol" as "Soul".

On the opposite side of the spectrum, I think Cloris, Greg Geraldo (the king of Comedy Central's roasts, in my opinion) and Bob Saget himself were the best.
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