I was 20 back in 1976, I remember watching this with my father, tears of laughter rolling down his face. All the greats that we grew up on that provided that much needed laughter. My father has passed away and many of the talents in that room have all left us, I miss those days, those shows , so I enjoyed this. Thankyou.
Was not born nor was my birth in the realm of possibility then but I love these people they are hilarious and could take a joke. These days people are much more sensitive.
@@KiaPi2012I agree. There is a stigma for everything now because of how everything could be magnified under the cancel culture microscope, and if that culture isn’t it, it’s just not being accepted. Loneliness carries a different weight, because we can see it on digital landscape, and that is terrifying because it is the landscape that is before our eyes at moments where we decide on; a moment that we make ourselves vulnerable (even to our own scornful judgement). This is likely of simplified, but seeing your comment really made me think about the social dynamics of then and now. While loneliness and depression was happening then, it’s happening at a younger age with each generation, and well we can be hard on ourselves because we don’t understand that a roast is meant to be light hearted. I don’t know about you folks, but I think at times I could take what someone says about me too seriously when I should have just accepted as jovial comical statement. Those good old days may trend one day if we ourselves could just accept a roasting with a little more cheer. I am thankful that you shared so I could think about all of this, and I think I will consider peoples actions and words under a different light.
This was done in 1976, 42 years ago. Many of these people are no longer with us, but it's good to see them again all together having fun. I'm 70 so I have enjoyed them all.
Alan, I was 10 years old when this aired. These people were the BEST! I'm still a 20th century girl at heart and wish things weren't as complicated as they are now. Such fantastic comedy! I'm happy that I'm not the only one who appreciates it!
I was not quite around yet, as my father was only 13 when this aired. I have enjoyed all the performances that i have been able to find on VHS, DVD, the Internet and in books. The comedians of the past were better. Or then they allready told the best jokes... They do say that i seem older than i am, so maybe the explanation is that i was born later than expected. Or they really scammed me with a false birth certificate.
@@Timbo_tango Yea that was the point dude. The innuendo was there for those who interpreted it that way. Yet, it was still good clean fun that the whole family could watch!
My mom is 88 and bedridden, thanks to these oldies but goodies being on RU-vid she is spending her last days watching her favorites. I get a huge laugh myself, love these amazing entertainers.
That's what is FANTASTIC about RU-vid ! My mom too is 80 now and still full of passion but not as healthy these days, but to see her man Frank Sinatra , puts the sparkle back in her eyes ! Touches my heart , GOD bless BonHam..*
@@dennis_duranliberals and older crowd. Always someone who wants to look down on today's generation the most hated generation I think it's because the older folk are jealous. But if we swapped roles older folks would be trying to kill themselves. Idk I thought you became chiller and more reserved as you get older not Americans and Canadians. You become more bitter and resent all the people following their dreams
It is a shame that we don't have comedians like these around anymore. I used to watch the roasts because of the talent that was doing the roast. We don't have such terrific talent like that anymore and that is a shame.
Besides, this kind of show and humor would be unacceptable today, apart from the fact that young people today are raised not to have any humor, especially this kind.
I disagree with you. I'm a huge stand up comedy fan and there are some AMAZING comics today! They may be more unfiltered and some more vulgar but damn are they good! Bill Burr (my absolutely favorite) Theo Von Tom Segura Bert Krisher Chris D' Elia Chris Distefano Andrew Shulz Andrew Santino Joe Rogan Mark Normand Dave Chappelle Troy Bond John Mulany Anthony Jeselnik Brian Regan Dave Attell Bo Burnham Daniel Sloss T.J. Miller Check them all out!
I remember when my parents watched the series of roasts when I was a young boy… when I got older, o understand how funny they were… I still lmao watching them on RU-vid… forever classics..,
Every time I watch this roast I think to watch a few minutes but end up watching the whole thing and I end up in tears laughing. Love this video!! Thanks to all.
kate parkscott Well, I agree that the comedy was not as dirty as we see these days, but if you watch any of Dean’s shows there was a LOT of innuendo😉. Dean could convey so much more with one knowing look at the camera (and be far funnier) than any number of today’s foul-mouthed ‘comedians’ put together. And with much more style and charm.
Great comment!’ No blasphemous ‘Oh my God’ then. Dean was clean and so was all his celebrity mates. I am 72 and just adore this man! Thanks Dean, you made my youth and to this day I still love and miss you!!
Don Rickles: 0:01:48 Orson Welles: 0:07:43 Paul Lynde 0:11:23 Joe Namath 0:15:08 Sen. Barry Goldwater 0:17:27 Angie Dickinson 0:21:44 Muhammad Ali 0:27:02 Jimmy Stewart 0:30:29 Gabe Kaplan 0:35:42 Gene Kelly 0:37:45 Sen. Hubert Humphrey 0:39:47 "Gary Von Greckson" 0:45:25 John Wayne 0:48:15 "Movie time" 0:52:23 Joey Bishop 0:56:51 Rich Little 1:00:50 "Gladys Louis" (Ruth Buzzi) 1:03:23 Tony Orlando 1:07:05 Georgia Engel 1:09:17 Nipsey Russell 1:11:50 "Scoutmaster Foster Brooks" 1:13:50 Howard Cosell 1:18:15 Dan Rowan and Dick Martin 1:20:40 Bob Hope 1:24:56 Dean Martin 1:32:17
Clean comedy is the funniest! If you can make a crowd die laughing with clean humor, you're a true comedian. These classic men set the bar really high.
This was a golden age of tv and comedy. So many great stars and comedians . Dean Martin was a great singer and comedian. His tv shows were outstanding .
It's March 2022 and this is still just as funny as the night it aired! I really miss all these amazing talented people! Sure miss the good old days of television when you got real quality programming! Before it became just about the money!
You are so right!! Those truly were the days when the people were as quality as the show and the programs were about entertainment fun and enjoyment and truly not about turning a quick buck
It's very sad to look around at the younger generations and know they have no clue how to deal with a true joke... without stabbing each other. I'm 74 years young and loved every minute of this. Thanks for airing this...you have made my day/week a lot brighter...
@SueParras I've got news for you, Suzie, it's always been about money. You call this childish stupidity "quality"? You're talking out of your ass. Whenever someone refers to the "good old days" you know you're dealing with an imbecile.
The Dean Martin Roasts are timeless, great entertainment. I remember watching them with my parents; great memories with amazing guests on the dias....Dean Martin, Don Rickels, Bob Hope, Ruth Buzzy, etc. etc.... each one funnier than the last. Thank you to RU-vid for bringing them back!!!
@@prime-boys the joke went over your head - and if you don't understand these comedians that made racist jokes (*jewish, black italian, puerto rican, gay etc) then may I suggest taking some MIDOL before watching this LMFAO
It sure was. the 70's was and probably will be the best decade of my life. I hope that when I am in heaven, I can relive them over and over for eternity
These were the best comedians that will always be remembered. You will never see comedians like this anymore. God bless all of them from Dean Martin to Bob Hope and the rest of the best comedians back then.
I am 79 and keep watching this every month. Sheer class unlike the crass, crude shows we now have. "Yes, Those Were the Days". All my favourite celebs in one place.
Something that I don't know if people watching this may not have noticed..... All these comedians and non comedians are not reading from teleprompters. And it is one of the reasons these roasts are so special. They have constant eye contact with the audience and eachother. The comedy is spontaneous. The laughing is authentic.
The roast was the greatest show on tv. They had me laughing so hard. When I watch today's comedy shows they can't even get a smile out of me. Most of them are either sexual innuendos or just raw vulgarity and filthy language. In the days of the roast the family could watch the shows with the children and not be afraid of what the kids were hearing. I loved the Carrol Burnett show, Andy Griffin, Bob Hope Special, Dean Martin's comedy Hour and many other clean decent family comedy. Thank you for bringing back so many beautiful memories
Wow…. nostalgic comedy at it’s finest,with the greatest artist of comedy,acting,sport,politics etc.I honestly don’t think that this form of honest clean family entertainment will ever be repeated again..I laugh so much at this I cry.. you actually believe they are family and friends up there ….thanks guys for the memories
IT IS 11/ 1 / 16 WHO ARE THE 335 PEOPLE WITH NO SENSE OF HUMOR ???? THESE PEOPLE ARE THE GREATEST STARS AND VERY FUNNY THANKS JACK FOR POSTING !!!! AND RICH LITTLE WHAT A GENIUS !!!! AND DON'T FORGET THE KING OF COMEDY BOB HOPE !!!!AND IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN ROASTING DEAN MARTIN !!! IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS "THE GREATS "!!!!
Dean Martin was very handsome and talented, I also miss those days. He was born in Stubenville, Ohio., My Stepfather was the Mayor of Youngstown back in the 60's and knew him back then. Mr. Martin is interred in the Pierce Brothers Cemetery in Los Angeles along with many of his friends, Rest in Peace .
THIS is the humor we need in America now! Look at this!!! There are men and women, black, white, brown, gay and straight up there all cracking jokes about each other. Every single one of us has something we can be poked at for and we should be able to see the humor in it. Everybody needs to lighten up and laugh at themselves and each other in love like these legends did. Make America wholesome again!
@Millie Zeller What a load of nonsense. I guess you haven't seen any contemporary roasts. They make this stupid shit look like kindergarten. Jokes that would offend you, you big mouth. Whenever someone refers to the "good old days" you know you're dealing with an imbecile.
@@Daftok I guess you haven't seen any contemporary roasts. They make this stupid shit look like kindergarten. Whenever someone refers to the "good old days" you know you're dealing with an imbecile.
All these people were fantastic back in the day. They always had fun making jokes at each other none of it was personal and they loved each other. Those truly were the good old days.
You can tell the type of man Dean was, everyone loved him so much. I wish I was alive to see this stuff live back then. He seemed like a genuine person loved by many. RIP to one of the greatest entertainers that ever lived.
Kevin Geddis To me it speaks volumes that even after he died people still spoke well of him. So often when famous personalities die everyone comes out of the woodwork to bad-mouth them and make accusations about what a terrible person they really were, but I have not seen anything like that about Dean. That surely says a lot about the kind of man he was.
My favorite quote about dean, it show the type of man he was. His daughter Deana said her dad once said " He only work so his family will be taken care of after he is gone....other then that he work so he could play golf. His family always come 1st then golf. He was so easy goimg
Dean's voice was like an uncle to me from the radio. I grew up listening to him. 73 years later that feeling is still the same. Never new what he looked like until i was a teen. His 60's hits made him more popular with television. He was so handsome. Bob n Bing everyone knew because of White Christmas. I remember my son getting his first compter. When he showed me how to work it, first thing i did was search lyrics i remembered from toddler days. I stil recall the day the Queens father died. I wasn't quite 3, but the house seemed empty without the familiar voices. Those are the entertainers that can never be replaced.
I enjoy watching these videos of the Roasts that I watched as a kid on TV with my family growing up in the 70s. In most of them, I feel joy at the nostalgia and humor, but also sadness at all the talent deceased and gone. What a pleasant surprise that in this one from 1976, no less than six performers on the dais are alive and well with us as of my viewing today on 12/21/21: Gabe Kaplan (76), Tony Orlando (77), Joe Namath (78), Rich Little (83), Ruth Buzzi (85), and Angie Dickinson (90). May God bless them with continued health and life, and may He bless Dean and the others who have passed on to His care in His Kingdom. Our lives were made more joyful by the gift of laughter they gave and continued to give through video.
Some of the best comedy of our time was made by these folks. For those of us old enough to remember them, this was great to watch. I was laughing the whole time.
All of them put on a show, but by god! The charm of Orson Welles and the spontaneity, quick wit and forked tongue of Don Rickles are a few leagues above everyone else. I could listen to the two of them for hours. They could be reciting the phone book and they would still find ways to make it entertaining.
I remember watching this with my Mom , I was a 17 year old kid with my whole life in front of me . My Dad drove a truck so he didn't get to watch alot of shows with us . I was raised to love and respect great talent and of course with my Mom's family being Italian we worshipped Dean Martin . These bring back so many memories of those days , sometimes it's hard not to shed a tear knowing so many are gone !
Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen for the last 100 minutes of superb entertainment. I'm thrilled to say I come from the same era, so the memories I take to my final resting place will certainly keep me warm and contented . . . and if you're ever strolling by a cemetery at twilight one evening and you hear laughter echoing around the gravestones . . . don't be alarmed, it's probably just me watching a re-run of this Dean Martin Celebrity Roast show . . . God Bless.
The golden days, when you actually had to have talent to be on a roast and not just crass and mean-spirited. They still push to the envelope without being vulgar and unoriginal. Today's roasts are nothing compared to these.
Garry Lisle carefull what you wish for. you had to wait in line for gas, cars downsized and engines became crap while the rest of the car was crap plastics interiors and thinning body panels and cocaine was brought in by the cia making addicts out of Americans while making drug cartels rich. I could go on. these roast were one of the good things
@@GraemeCree Orson Welles career took a bit of a nosedive later in his life, but he was an aura of class. I guess you can say he was a student of Shakespeare, and his 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast was his claim to fame, even if it scared lots of Americans.
@@KratostheThird I thought he didn't like talking about that, but the first time he met Phil Harris, Phil said something like "Hey Orson, what's shakin'? Been scaring anybody lately?" If he was okay with a gag like that, he couldn't have minded the subject too much.
Wow! I’m speechless; so grateful to have lived in those years. In 1976 I was 19, to see how this world has deteriorated since growing up can bring me to tears! But for 1hr. 41 minutes and a few seconds I was just able to re-live some golden memories and take a break from modern-day reality! Great show!!!
I'm 41 and laughed my ass off the whole time here..... almost pissed myself a few times. These guys were friggin hilarious!!! There are no comedians today who even come close.
That’s not true. Why do ppl always say that? We can say comedians of the past were great while acknowledging we have some legends around today as well.
@@samuelcole7736 actually the Angie bit was offensive but not the other type of humor, when Don says that about the entire dias jumping on Angie..no to that!
Dean Martin was the coolest man on big or small screen and on records. Yup, comedy has changed but many comics back then were raunchy, live tv was just more rigid. What really impresses me is that a huge star is roasted by mostly contemporaries, now they are roasted mostly by people who wouldn't make a pimple on their ass as a celebrity.
Jokes were Jokes back then too... Even if they were raunchy .. they weren't mean they were funny and People back then knew how to take jokes and how to laugh at themselves... UNLIKE MANY OF TODAY'S PEOPLE !!!!!
Television was more strict back then. Dean Martin I'm sure was raunchy off camera, but due to TV restrictions the jokes had to be presentable for a general audience.
Seeing these greats will always remind me what entertainment was all about no cell phones no computers just great traditional family entertainment sitting in the livingroom after dinner watching these Dean Martin roast were just great best humor and best times. How I wish I can sit in that livingroom with my family one more time
i'd like to watch these Jewish guys rant about the governor who would have vacated the death sentences of every Nazi who perpetrated the Holocaust because of the inhumanity of the execution methods available in his state. He totally ignored the will of the voters and the courts and spit in the face of victim's friends and families who had been promised justice and closure. This clown inadvertently increased the pool of people willing to risk the possible punishment from removing him from office by at least one...million.
This is funny stuff. There is a lot of outrageously funny stuff out now. If you don't know of it or if you aren't hip to it, I only feel bummed out for you.
I'm crying because of all these astounding actors and people that were the most classy and most amazing people ever. So darn funny! Oh my gosh. I miss this era so much. Minus the smoking this was just the best of the entertainment industry. I'm 22 and I'm so sad we don't get this kind of amazing comedy anymore... :(
@@oldguardduke Well at least today the actors aren't allowed to smoke or breath without a mask in a closed public setting,unlike this frightening display of FREEDOM in Las Vegas. Our Chinese 🇨🇳 overlords wouldn't be pleased with this behavior at all.. in 2024 we must Re-Elect. Joseph ROBBING IT Biden & Keep CHINA 🇨🇳 HAPPY.
Don missed a trick when he mentioned the audience: "Looking around this great audience tonight, the cream of Hollywood, I am reminded of... all the excellent plastic surgeons we have". The good old days.
Imagine that... truly great comedy in all of Martin's roasts... I rate this one in the top 5 of all the Martin roasts along with the ones for Sinatra, Landon, Gleason and Jimmy Stewart (probably the absolute best Martin roast of them all as a whole) Yes, virtually everyone (with a few exceptions) that participated in these famous Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, are all gone physically now. These are timeless moments catching the tail-end of some of the most hallowed comic legends and actors of a no -so-distant past. This era of greatness in comedy, acting and music will never be equalled. Isn't it amazing that one can laugh 10 times more heartily with these awesome dead stars than with the absolute garbage that dominates in Hollywood today? How can anyone today even close to the comic geniuses of Rickles, Norm Crosby, Bob Hope, Foster Brooks, etc.? So many comedians today are not very funny at all and resort to profanity all the time as a crutch only to reveal 2 things: lack of class and lack of vocabulary. Yes, this roast was held in 1976. So what. Truly good comedy is truly funny and timeless whether back in 1976 or in 2076. Quality will always be ageless, just like the music of Bach, Chopin, Mozart, Ellington and, Piazzolla!!
It's not just comedy, writing has taken a huge nosedive as well. All the Millennial generation of writers and comedians have shown me is they have no real talent and no real class. If the Greatest Generation (Dean Martin, Foster Brooks, Bob Hope, etc) was the epitome of class, the Millennial Generation is the antithesis of that. Millennials are easily offended, can't take jokes as easily, take everything seriously, and whine about trivial matters. Most comedians under age 40 today only know how to curse every other sentence and make sex jokes that are akin to the garbage you see on Instagram and TikTok. Sadly Gen Xers aren't much better, because after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, I decided I will not bother with any Hollywood award show anymore.
you don't need lgbt's, minorities, or women either. nobody knew what diversity was back then but there still were Jews, Not to check off a box on their diversity form but because they were the funniest comedians in the business . And no Trump jokes were needed to get a chuckle either. The funniest thing about comedians today is that they are comedians. That's hilarious.
all these people were awesome,but what really made these old days great,was the fact we could laugh at ourselves with out being offended,nowadays people get offended by the time of day
What an amazing line up!! I have loved Dean all my life and miss him.. 😢 I would have loved to to see him when I was in Vegas! In 1980. 🥰🏴🏴
I worked at the Sands Motel and Casio in the 1980s for a few years, and was always happy to hear the music when the Celebrates were about to be introduced. Ones heart would just skip a beat hearing the intro music! These were good old days for me.
