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John Cleese Roast for Seven

Fawlty Towers legend is next to be roasted in a Seven special.

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EXCLUSIVE:

Seven is set to screen a Roast of John Cleese to be filmed in Melbourne on July 19.

Cleese, who will tour his show An Evening With The Late John Cleese from July 24, will be roasted by a crop of comedians in the show produced by Shane Jacobson.

Jacobson also produced The Roast of Paul Hogan for Seven last year, filmed at Crown Melbourne. With names such as Shaun Micallef, Tom Gleeson, Steve Vizard, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, it was well received at 513,000 metro viewers.

Cleese, 83, is also behind a Fawlty Towers reboot with daughter Camilla Cleese, more than 4 decades after the finale screened.

Seven has been contacted for comment.

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  1. Celebrity roasts have been a feature of American TV for many decades.
    Many of us would remember the 1970s Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts series.

    The comments made by celebrities to other celebrities were no-holds barred payouts and the banter in the room was sometimes like eavesdropping on a private dinner party.
    And hilarious to boot, though the 70s humour was of its time.

    Also note how so many on the panels would be drinking and smoking on camera.

    Oh, and these people were genuine celebrities who were at the top of their fields in comedy, music, entertainment, TV or the movies. Think Sammy Davis Jnr, Don Rickle, Phyllis Diller, Lucille Ball, Bob Hope, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Muhammed Ali etc
    Check them out on YouTube and enjoy the trip back in time.

    1. Those were the days before people became precious and could handle a bit of insulting humour, not like today if you say the wrong someone doesn’t like you get cancelled. 😂

  2. I don’t get this idea of ‘roasting’ Search from a website “A roast is a form of humor in which a specific individual, a guest of honor, is subjected to jokes at their expense, intended to amuse the event’s wider audience. Such events are intended to honor a specific individual in a unique way.” I didn’t see the Paul Hogan special but it sounds like degrading someone for humour, which in this day and age I thought was comparable to trolling, but in this instance knowing who the person was insulting you?!?

    3. ” but in this instance knowing who the person was insulting you.”

      With of course the added part of agreeing to appear and have the Roast done to you, plus having the right of reply when the others are all done, which is a whole different thing to hiding behind a screen in anonymity.

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