wow. but they are careful. i would say they are filthy, but they don t go into areas now considered sensitive. like the stuff don rickles would say to sammy davis, junior. i don t think he could sing now. that s probably true. dean martin, drunk? oh dean martin. well dean h dean dean had that attitude. he didn t care about anything. as a matter of fact, dean didn t even know who they were roasting. that was two minutes before the show. seriously? yes, one roast we did at the mgm grand and leaving the green room to go on stage and the audience is packed. we are walking to the set and two minutes from starting and dean goes, rich, who are we honoring tonight? i said what? he said who are we honoring? i said michael landon. oh that s a good choice.
we are going to have fun. in other words he was going sit down there if he hadn t spoken to me and read the cards and find out who we are honoring. those corny jokes he told, but people loved them because dean told them. now if we told any of those jokes today as ourselves they wouldn t be asxfunny. dean would do jokes like, hey, did you hear about the angry deer who stumbled out of the forest? boy that s the last time i will do that for 10 bucks. that s the joke dean would do. he would say, did you hear there was a loud scream in the operating room this morning, and the doctor was heard saying, nurse, nurse, are you an idiot? i told you to take off his spectacles. his spectacles.
wow. but they are careful. i would say they are filthy, but they don t go into areas now considered sensitive. like the stuff don rickles would say to sammy davis, junior. i don t think he could sing now. that s probably true. dean martin, drunk? oh dean martin. well dean h dean dean had that attitude. he didn t care about anything. as a matter of fact, dean didn t even know who they were roasting. that was two minutes before the show. seriously? yes, one roast we did at the mgm grand and leaving the green room to go on stage and the audience is packed. we are walking to the set and two minutes from starting and dean goes, rich, who are we honoring tonight? i said what? he said who are we honoring? i said michael landon. oh that s a good choice.
when dean does it, it really works. horny, corn ear jokes, but they work. we have one more question and then we have to go. frank sinatra, working with him, scary? he was always nice to me. i can t say anything bad about him. of course he had another side which i never saw. he didn t kill anybody when i was around. i liked him. i really liked him. of course he was kind of always treated like a god. did you know dean martin was a bigger star than frank sinatra? if you look at the statistics, dean had more hits and he had a successful television show. movies, they are probably about the same same except he had a bigger star. but dean wouldn t kill you. no, he would stumble over you , but he wouldn t kill you. after frank killed him he
we are going to have fun. in other words he was going sit down there if he hadn t spoken to me and read the cards and find out who we are honoring. those corny jokes he told, but people loved them because dean told them. now if we told any of those jokes today as ourselves they wouldn t be asxfunny. dean would do jokes like, hey, did you hear about the angry deer who stumbled out of the forest? boy that s the last time i will do that for 10 bucks. that s the joke dean would do. he would say, did you hear there was a loud scream in the operating room this morning, and the doctor was heard saying, nurse, nurse, are you an idiot? i told you to take off his spectacles. his spectacles.