Top 10 Best Celebrity Roasts of All Time (Comedy Central, Netflix & YouTube)

Celebrity roasts have become an iconic part of comedy culture, often showcasing the sharpest and most savage humor aimed at Hollywood’s biggest stars. These comedic spectacles provide a perfect blend of humor, wit, and shock value, leaving audiences in stitches — and sometimes in disbelief. From Justin Bieber to Donald Trump, the best celebrity roasts deliver iconic burns that become part of pop culture history. Top moments include the Charlie Sheen Roast, where the star’s infamous meltdown provided endless material, and the Bob Saget Roast, where raunchy humor and heartfelt tributes collided. These moments are unforgettable for their candid and fearless humor. 

• Bill Engvall Roasts Jeff Foxworthy
  Even friends don’t hold back at a roast. Engvall joked, “If you’ve shot everything but a successful TV show, you might be Jeff Foxworthy.”
• Greg Giraldo Roasts Chevy Chase
  Greg didn’t pull punches: “Three great movies, and 40 terrible ones. Even O.J.’s roast would have more star power!”
• Norm MacDonald Roasts Bob Saget
  Norm flipped the roast script—he went clean! “Bob has a face like a flower… yeah, cauliflower.”
• Jeffrey Ross Roasts Pamela Anderson
  Ross fired at Courtney Love mid-roast: “She looks worse than Kurt Cobain right now.”
• Snoop Dogg Roasts Donald Trump
  Snoop’s jab hit different: “Why not run for president? It’s not the first time you kicked a Black family out.”
• Martha Stewart Roasts Justin Bieber
  Prison tips from Martha: “You’ll need a shank. I made mine from a pin tail comb and gum. Bubbalicious works best.”
• Anthony Jeselnik Roasts Charlie Sheen
  Dark and brutal: “You only got famous because God hates Michael J. Fox.”
• Amy Schumer Roasts Charlie Sheen
  She compared his exes to Vietnam soldiers: “Always afraid of being killed by Charlie.”
• Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Roasts Rob Reiner
  One of many burns: “Even David Crosby thinks you’ve let yourself go.”
• Betty White Roasts William Shatner
  Betty White lit up the stage late in her career. She quipped, “I once had sex with William Shatner… He was huffing and puffing, and I told him to wrap it up—the roast’s about to start!”
• Patrice O’Neal Roasts Charlie Sheen (and Everyone Else)
  Patrice ditched his script and started roasting the other roasters: “Anthony Jeselnik? I didn’t even bother learning your last name.” Brutal truth, pure Patrice.
• George Takei Roasts William Shatner
  George kicked things off with a name correction: “It’s Takei, not Takai. Like toupee!” That roast turned him into a surprise internet favorite.
• Natasha Leggero Roasts James Franco
  Natasha summed Franco up in one line: “You do it all—direct, act, write—but is there anything you can actually do?”
• Joan Rivers Roasts Herself
  Nobody roasted Joan better than Joan. She closed with: “Tom Arnold was in Betty Ford more than Gerald was in the White House.”
• Jimmy Kimmel Roasts Flavor Flav
  Kimmel called Flav “an open casket for James Brown,” then joked he caused “more Black unemployment than Hurricane Katrina.” Even for a roast, that one hit hard.
• Whitney Cummings Roasts David Hasselhoff (and Pam)
  Her viral moment? “Pam, you’ve dated Bret Michaels, Tommy Lee, Kid Rock… just drink a jug of Magic Johnson’s blood and save time.”
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt Roasts Bruce Willis
  He joked Bruce was out-acted by a 10-year-old in The Sixth Sense. But his real zinger? “Who remembers Ed Norton’s Hulk? Not the Avengers!”
• Ireland Baldwin Roasts Alec Baldwin
  Ireland didn’t hold back: “You lose Emmys, Oscars, and oh yeah—custody of your firstborn.”
• Al Franken Roasts Chevy Chase
  Al nailed him with: “Chevy’s the kind of guy even Chevy Chase, Maryland tried to rename itself to Not Funny.”
• Gilbert Gottfried Roasts Hugh Hefner 
  After bombing a 9/11 joke, Gilbert salvaged it by telling the world’s dirtiest joke—“The Aristocrats”—and brought the room back from the dead.