Review of Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump (2011) by Robert H — 07 Sep 2016

If anyone deserves a good roasting, it would be Donald Trump. There are only two factors which make this comedy special not as funny as it could have been: 1) They did it too early; just think if they'd decided to roast him AFTER he lost this election in a landslide, not to mention all of the many outrageous things he's said and done over the course of the campaign; and 2) They didn't go far enough.

With the exception of a few zingers, the dais handled him with kid gloves, you know, the kind that Donald Trump wears. From a big-picture perspective, the roast was funny and I laughed a fair amount. There was only one true bomb, courtesy of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, one of the no-talent hacks from the Jersey Shore.

Of course, maybe it's fitting that a failed comedian come from one of the many places where Trump had a failed business. Who knows? For my money, fortunately not much of it, the best routines were by Anthony Jeselnik (?) and Snoop Dogg, who acquitted himself quite nicely in a performance format for which he's generally not known.

If you're one of the many people checking this out a second time now that Trump's threat to run for President has become reality, you might find some laughter here. However, your best bet would just be to follow the news as he continually provides fodder for jokes much funnier than what you'll find here.