Celebrity roasts are a friendly and funny jib against the guest of honor.
A celebrity roast is a time-honored rite of passage for many accomplished individuals who have reached great heights a particular field. A roast typically pokes fun at the guest of honor in a funny, playful and not-always-tactful manner. The nature of a roast is to make fun of the individual in a way that balances the line between what is humorous and what is just insulting and distasteful.
Instructions
1. Pick out the interesting and unique interests, hobbies and idiosyncrasies of the guest of honor, and base your jokes around those concepts. Perhaps your guest of honor has a strange hobby or is obsessed with their hobby or interest. Strange and obvious mannerisms are good topics for roasts.
2. Use your common sense when conducting a roast. Avoid saying things that might hit a nerve with the guest of honor, such as a death in the family or a hurtful time in the guest's life that he does not openly speak about. When in doubt, ask the guest or the guest's spouse if there are any topics that should be kept out of the roast.
3. Jot down a list of the accomplishments and important moments in the guest's life. Use these well-known events as the background of your joke. People will be familiar with them, and you can use them in various ways. For example, suggest that the guest of honor accomplished them by accident.
4. Make fun of the guest's failures or misgivings, as long as they are not too insensitive. For example, you can mock the guest's poor fashion sense, his inability to cook or his age. If the person is single, you can use his single life as topic to roast. If the guest is being honored for a particular occasion, you can use that reason to poke fun at him.
5. Gauge the tone from the audience if they like where your joke is going. If they don't, you might want to give it up and try another topic. The key is to make the audience laugh in agreement, not to shock them or make them feel uncomfortable.
