Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

Entertainment Icon Dean Martin and Celebrity Roasts

Born as Dino Crocetti, an American singer and Film Actor Dean Martin is one of the most beloved entertainers of our time specially his comedy/variety series The Dean Martin Show. After once declining popularity in 1973, The Dean Martin Show featured the word "roasts" in 1974 that seemed pretty popular among tv audiences and pick up ratings for the his show "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts" for 11 years by successfully ridiculated, embarrassed and made fun of legendary stars like Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jack Benny and many more plus special guest appearances.

From Dean's early year being a school dropped out, first took jobs like steelworker and bootlegger, and by 15 he as a boxer "Kid Crocett" but stop due to prize meager. Dean started his entertainment career when he work in a casino as stock boy, roulette stick man, sing with local bands and later get his break working with Ernie McKay Orchestra with name "Dino Martini". Early 1940's Dean became bandleader of Sammy Watkins and change his name as Dean Martin carrying his looks and personality and later developed smooth singing style. Dean luckily started his acting, singing career and also teamed up with Jerry Lewis from fast friendship into music-comedy team before he start his solo career by 1965 launching his show.

Dean prided himself memorizing not only his lines but the whole script and firmly believed his best performance was his firsts. The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts show become very popular and favorite show with it's loose format often prompted comedic, quick-witted improvisation resulted the show often on Top Ten.

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Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts Complete collection contains 26 of the most roasts.

Disc 1- Roast featuring MICHAEL LANDON with guests: Phyllis Diller, Ernest Borgnine, Joey Bishop, Norm Crosby, Euell Gibbons, Guy Marks, Jan Murray, Cliff Robertson, Lorne Green, Sid Caesar, Amada Blake, Victor Sen-Yung, Don Rickles. And Roast: Rich Little, Pat Harrington, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dick Shawn, Merlin Olsen, Lorne green, Norm Crosby, Melissa Gilbert, Vic Tayback, Maureen Murphey, Orson Welles, Slappy White, Brian Keith, Don Rickles.

Disc 2 ? Roast starring Frank Sinatra with guest: DON RICKLES, RONALD REAGAN, GENE KELLY, GEORGE BURNS, DOM DELUISE, REDD FOXX, JIMMY STEWART, FLIP WILSON, TELLY SAVALAS, JONATAHN WINTERS, JACK KLUGMAN, RED BUTTONS, LAWANDA PAGE, MILTON BERLE, ERNEST BORGNINE, ORSON WELLES, RICH LITTLE, PETER FALK, RUTH BUZZI, CHARLIE CALLAS. Roast: Rich Little, Pat Harrington, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dick Shawn, Merlin Olsen, Lorne green, Norm Crosby, Melissa Gilbert, Vic Tayback, Maureen Murphey, Orson Welles, Slappy White, Brian Keith, Don Rickles.

Disc 3 - Roast featuring Dean Martin with guests: Don Rickles, Orson Welles, Paul Lynde, Joe Namath, Barry Goldwater, Angie Dickinson, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Stewart, Gabe Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Hubert Humphrey, Charlie Callas, John Wayne, Freddie Prinze, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, Peter Graves, Dom DeLuise, Monty Hall, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Klugman, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, Michael Landon, Jan Murray, Totie Fields, William Conrad, Evil Knievel, Jackie Gleason, Danny Thomas, Art Carney, Joey Bishop, Rich Little, Ruth Buzzi, Tony Orlando, Georgia Engel, Nipsey Russell, Foster Brooks, Howard Cosell, Rowan & Martin.

Disc 4 - Roast featuring SAMMY DAVIS JR. with guests: Milton Berle wilt Chamberlain, freddie Prinze, Norm Crosby, Dionne Warwick, Joey Bishop, Nisey Russell, Phyllis Diller, Jan Murrey, frank Gorshin, Foster Brooks, Don Rickles, Altovise Davis

Roast featuring JACKIE GLEASON with guests: Phylis Diller, Milton Berle, Danny thomas, audrey Meadows, Gene Kelly, Nipsey russell, Sid Caesar, Sheila MacRae, Art Carney, Frank Gorshin, Foster Brooks.

Disc 5 - Roast featuring Jimmy Stewart GUESTS IN THIS VIDEO: LUCILLE BALL, JUNE ALLYSON, GREER GARSON, RED BUTTONS, SEN. BARRY GOLDWATER, LAWANDA PAGE, HENRY FONDA, EDDIE ALBERT, FOSTER BROOKS, GEORGE BURNS, TONY RANDALL, DON RICKLES, RICH LITTLE, JANET LEIGH, MILTON BERLE, JESSE WHITE, ORSON WELLES, MICKEY ROONEY AND A SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY RUTH BUZZI

Disc 6 - Roast featuring BOB HOPE with guests: FLIP WILSON, RONALD REAGAN, JOHN WAYNE, FOSTER BROOKS, JIMMY STEWART, MILTON BERLE, REV. BILLY GRAHAM, RICH LITTLE, HOWARD COSELL, JACK BENNY, ZSA ZSA GABOR, NIPSEY RUSSELL, GEN. OMAR BRADLEY, PHYLLIS DILLER, NEIL ARMSTRONG, HENRY KISSINGER, DON RICKLES, DELORES HOPE

Roast featuring RONALD REAGAN with guests: JACKIE VERNON, PHYLLIS DILLER, DOM DELUISE, PAT HENRY, MARK SPITZ, JACK BENNY, JONATHAN WINTERS, NIPSEY RUSSELL, GINGER ROGERS, NANCY REAGAN

Disc 7 - Roast featuring LUCILLE BALL with guests: Phyllis Diller, Rowan & Martin, Ruth Buzzi, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Gary Morton, Gale Gordon, Totie Fields, Rich Little, Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, Foster Brooks, Nisey Russell, Jack Benny, Viviane Vance, Don Rickles

Roast Featuring DANNY THOMAS and his guests: Jimmy Walker, Red Buttons, Charro, Harvey Corman, Charlie Callas, Gene Kelly, Ruth Buzzi, Nipsey Russell, Dena Dietrich, Howard Cosell, Jan Murray, Don Knotts, Orson Welles, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle

Disc 8 - Roast featuring GEORGE BURNS with guests: Phyllis Diller, Ernest Borgnine, Joey Bishop, Norm Crosby, Euell Gibbons, Guy Marks, Jan Murray, Cliff Robertson, Lorne Green, Sid Caesar, Amada Blake, Victor Sen-Yung, Don Rickles.

Roast featuring JACK BENNY with guests: Joey Bishop, Florence Henderson, George Burns, Jimmy Stewart, Norm Crosby, Zuban Mehtah, Pearl Bailey, Dick Martin, Mark Spitz, Wayne Newton, Rich little Demond Wilson, Jack Carter, Foster Brooks

Disc 9 - featuring JOHNNY CARSON with guests: GEORGE BURNS, TRUMAN CAPOTE, DOC SEVERINSON, JOEY BISHOP, RUTH BUZZI, DOM DeLUISE, BOB NEWHART, FRED DeCORDOVA, JONATHAN WINTERS, FOSTER BROOKES, DIONNE WARWICK, RICH LITTLE, BARRY GOLDWATER, BWTTE DAVIS, MARTIN MILNER, KENT McCORD, REDD FOXX, JACK BENNY, MRS. JOHNNY CARSON.

Roast Featuring ED McMAHON with guests: PAT BUTTRUM, JACKIE VERNON, DIONNE WARWICK, STEVE LANDESBURG, CHARO, JACK CARTER.

Disc 10 - Roast featuring DON RICKLES with guests: JOEY BISHOP, PHILLIS DILLER, LORNE GREEN, ROWAN & MARTIN, CASEY KASEM, BOB NEWHART, CAROL CHANNING, NIPSEY RUSSELL, CLIFF ROBERTSON, JACK KLUGMAN, PAT HENRY, KIRK DOUGLAS, RICH LITTLE, TELLY SAVALAS, CHARLIE CALLAS, FOSTER BROOKS.

Roast featuring ANGIE DICKINSON with guests: JIMMY WALKER, CINDY WILLIAMS, EARL HOLLIMAN, RED BUTTONS, JACKIE MASON, JIMMY STEWART, JOEY BISHOP, SCATMAN CROTHERS, La WANDA PAGE, RUTH BUZZI, CHARLIE CALLAS, ORSON WELLES, FOSTER BROOKS, REX REED.

Disc 11 - Roast featuring Carroll O'Conner with guests: ROWAN & MARTIN, MARTY ALLEN, MIKE CONNERS, JOHN LINDSEY, NIPSEY RUSSELL, GENE KELLY, JOEY BISHOP, ROBERT WOOD, WILLIAM CONRAD, WILLIAM HOLDEN, DONALD O'CONNER, CHARLES NELSON REILLY, ZSA ZSA GABOR, RUTH BUZZI, BARRY GOLDWATER, CASS ELLIOTT, REDD FOXX, DON RICKLES, FOSTER BROOKS.

Roast featuring REDD FOXX with guests: Slappy White, Norm Crosby, Audrey Meadows, Joey Bishop, John Barbour, Nipsey Russell, Jeanine Bernier, Rich LIttle, Demond Wilson, Jackie Gayle.

Disc 12 - Roast featuring HUGH HEFNER with guests: Billy Baxter, Howard Cosell, Audrey Meadows, Jackie Gayle, Dick Martin, Joey Bishop.

Roast featuring WILT CHAMBERLAIN with guests: Norm Crosby, audrey Meadows, Ken Berry, Nipsey Russell, Bill Shoemaker, Vernon Scott, George Kennedy, Jackie Gayle.

Disc 13 - Roast featuring TELLY SAVALAS with guests: Phyllis Diller, Howard Cosell, George Kennedy, Dom DeLuise, Peter Graves, Shelly Winters, Ernest Borgnine, Rowan & Martin, Foster Brooks, Richard Roundtree, Robert Stack, Nipsey russell, Rich Little, Angie Dikinson, Don Rickles.

Roast featuring BETTE DAVIS with guests: Pat Buttrum, Kay Medford, Nipsey Russell, Joyce Haver, Vincent Price, Army Archard, Barbara Heller, Henry Fonda, Howard Cosell.

Disc 14 - Freddie Prinze, Gabe Kaplan, Red Buttons, Tony Orlando, Charlie Callas, Wilt Chamberlain, Georgina Engel, Billy Crystal, Floyd Patterson, Howard Cosell, Ruth Buzzi, Gene Kelly, Isabel Sanford, Sherman Hemsley, Rocky Graziano, Foster Brooks, Orson Welles, Nipsey Russell.

Roast featuring HANK AARON with guests: Joey Bishop, Eddie Matthews, Audrey Meadows, Lou Rawls, Norm Crosby, Lynn Anderson, Nipsey Russell, Dizzy dean, Jeanine Burnier, Rodney allen Rippy, Foster Brooks.

Disc 15 - Roast featuring EVEL KNIEVEL with guests: Gabe Kaplan, Isabel Sanford, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Berle, William Conrad, Barry Goldwater, Glen Campbell,Georgina Engel, Jackie Cooper, Nisey Russell, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Charlie Callas, Cliff Robertson, McLean Stevenson, Ruth Buzzi, Don Rickles.

Roast featuring MR. "T' with guests: Gary Coleman, Ann Jillian, Red Buttons, Rich Little, Ricky Schroeder, Bob Hope, Gavin McLeod, Slappy White, Dick Shawn, George Peppard, Howard Cosell, Maureen Murphy, Don Rickles.