James Franco Roast: Natasha Leggero, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill Skewer Actor With Jokes and Insults
Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump, Joan Rivers and David Hasselhoff have all sat through a "Comedy Central Roast." Last night, it was James Franco's turn to endure an endless string of insults from comedians and celebrities.
This time, the dais of roasters consisted of comedians and actors Sarah Silverman, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Nick Kroll, Natasha Leggero, Aziz Ansari, Andy Sandberg, Jeff Ross and Bill Hader. The 35-year-old actor-writer-director-artist-author sat and laughed his way through the roast's notorious tactless jokes, directed at him and others on the dais.
Take a look at some of the most memorable jokes of the night, which was kicked off by Rogen.
Rogen: "Why the f--k are we here?"
Kroll: "If at any point James fully opens his eyes tonight, there will be six more weeks of summer."
Silverman: "Right before the show started, Seth rolled a gigantic fatty. Because that's the only way we could get Jonah on stage."
Rogen: "Look at me doing all the talking while you sit there doing nothing. I feel like I'm co-hosting the Oscars with you."
Silverman: "I don't think James is gay or straight. It's just that he literally can't open his eyes enough to see who he's f--king."
Legero: "Jonah, I loved you as a baseball analyst in 'Moneyball' and I love you as Rosie O'Donnell in real life."
Ansari: "I've been up here longer than I was in 'This Is The End.' The funniest part of 'This Is The End' to me is that if James Fanco actually had that party I don't think I would have been invited."
Ross: "When Jonah's agent told him that Quentin Tarantino wanted him to be in a spaghetti western, Jonah was like, 'You had me at spaghetti.'"
As is with any roast, the celebrity getting roasted gets a chance to fire back at his peers.
"The joke's on all of you," Franco said, closing out the night. "This is not a roast. This is my greatest most elaborate art installation ever. I'm not the real guest of honor, these aren't real comedians and we're not even on a real network. What you've seen tonight was my brilliant opus to sequester an artistic visionary and subject him to the mindless incoherent trashings of a scattering of miscreated, talentless abnormalities. I call it Genius Unscathed and this is my masterpiece."
The Oscar-nominated actor is set to appear in the "Veronica Mars" movie next year, and has his own art reality show coming to the Ovation network in November.
As Natasha Leggero put it last night:
"James has a new reality show coming out on the Ovation network, wow. Finally something so awful that even TLC was like, 'Nah, we're good.'"