Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav: Uncensored!
Extended and Uncensored
Paramount Home Video
73 minutes
Available February 12, 2008

Roastmaster Katt Williams (First Sunday, The Perfect Holiday) opens the roast of Flavor Flav with a look back at the life of this entertainer. Beginning his days with Public Enemy as the first credited hype-man, Flavor Flav’s career was one rooted in soci-political commentaries against racism and class stratification. As Public Enemy’s popularity grew, so did the antics of Flavor Flav and his petulance for clocks, now in all shapes and sizes, and his run-ins with the law. So it becomes only natural in American TV culture that a once-subversive hard-core rapper/hype-man reengineers himself into a reality TV star. Thus is America, thus is the life of Flavor Flav.

When Katt Williams states “Ladies and gentleman look up at the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a crow, it’s a bat, it’s Flavor Flav,” you immediately know it’s time to sit down, get comfortable, and be prepared to laugh until you cry.

There are eleven roasters — Katt Williams, Greg Giraldo, Sommore, Brigitte Nielsen, Jimmy Kimmel, Ice T, Jeff Ross, Carrot Top, Patton Oswalt, Snoop Dog, Lisa Lampanelli — who represent all different types of comedy and no particular person stands out as being the best. However, there are comedians that are not as funny as others. Maybe the “˜unfunny’ were upset because a fellow roaster said something particularly hurtful, or they realized their act was not up to snuff, but their sub-par performance is immediately displayed. I’m not going to say who I think was great and those who needed a few more days of preparation, because you’ll have to decide that yourself. But, rest assured, everyone had at least three zingers in their act that made you bust a stitch. Ok, correction, at least one busted snitch, and one or two knee slaps.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this DVD to everyone. Even though Flavor of Love and Flavor Flav in general is the epitome of what is wrong with TV, we all should just give in to the guilty pleasure it gives us and enjoy the ride. This DVD is hilarious when you watch it alone on a rainy day, or in the company of drunken friends (as it should be viewed.) Bravo, Comedy Central for giving us the trashy TV we all secretly can’t live without.

DVD Bonus Features

Red Carpet Interviews

Vargas interviews celebrities as they make their way down the red carpet and into the roast for 33 whole minutes. Yes, that’s right, get ready to make yourself comfortable and get significantly bored by the sixth person. Even though there were too many interviewees and not enough editing of their comments, one particularly funny portion of the red carpet is when Ron Jeremy (’70s porn star) continually blocked Dennis Hof (owner of the Bunny Ranch) from making any comments to the interviewer. Everything Dennis tried to say, Ron interrupted with a foul comment; it was funny to see one middle-aged sex industry star fight for supremacy against another middle-aged sex industry star”¦hmm, fighting against the man in the mirror much? Some of the celebrities that made an appearance on the Red Carpet were Alexis Arquette, Chyna Doll, Sommore, Cedric Yarlborough, Ron Jeremy, and Dennis Hof; participants from the second season of Flavor of Love were Larissa, Shay, Buckwild, Delcious, Shatar, Saaphyri, and Leilene.

Backstage Pass Pre Show

The pre show backstage pass continues with four statements from celebrities after they have left the red carpet. This bonus feature is really unnecessary and it is so short, it could have been added to the Red Carpet Interviews or the backstage pass post show content.

Backstage Pass Post Show

Five of the roasters give their opinions of the evening as they make their run to their trailers, limos, or other ride home. Once again, this is bonus material that is really unnecessary. I understand that bonus content helps the audience get a feel of everything a bit better, but, this did nothing for me.

Flav Gives a Tour Post Show

In this bonus, we see what Flav went through behind the scenes before his roast. So basically Flav went to his trailer and had his hair done, since that is all that is included in this feature, that’s all it apparently takes to get ready to be roasted.

Flavor-Cam

A camera is placed inside Flav’s clock and we get to see another point of view from his walk on the Red Carpet to snippets of interviews with TV Guide and BET correspondents. The highlight of this feature is when Flavor trips and he screams “the sidewalk tried to trip me.”

Comedy Central Quickies: (This is episodes from other Comedy Central show.)

The Colbert Report

Episode: “Breasts” – This snippet talks about World Breast day and the impact of a woman’s magazine featuring a picture of a baby breastfeeding.

Lil’ Bush

Episode: “Lil’ Kim Jong-il” – We all know a child version of George Bush is hilarious, it is even funnier to see a miniature version of Kim Jon-il especially when he steals Lil’ Bush’s video game and breaks it.

The Sarah Silverman Program

Episode: “Date with God” – Sarah Silverman rocks! If you are looking for bawdy, sarcastic, and acidic humor, look no further. In this snippet, Sarah dates God and says how cute they look together.

South Park

Episode: “Leprechaun” – The boys try to trap a leprechaun because Cartman claims to have seen one running through a nearby forrest. Because no one believes Cartman, Kyle decides to make a weighty wager — if a leprechaun shows up, Kyle must suck Cartman’s balls. South Park: Vulgarity at its best!

Snippets from the Roast

Here are some jokes from each of the entertainers I found particularly funny. Hopefully you’ll enjoy them, too! (And obviously — WARNING: SPOILERS.)

Greg Giraldo (Adult Content with Greg Giraldo):

To Carrot Top: “How did you find a plastic surgeon that could add a chromosome?”

To Flavor Flav: “You look like a turd with teeth”¦a skeleton wrapped in electrical tape.”

Sommore (Soul Plane, Def Comedy Jam):

“This is my first gig where security is protecting the audience from the performers.”

To Brigitte Nielsen: “For the first time, I would like to thank a white woman for taking a black man off the market.”

Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Crank Yankers):

“Ron Jeremy is here tonight to support his twin brother Lisa Lampanelli.”

“Flavor Flav is responsible for more homeless black children than hurricane Katrina.”

Ice T (Rapper, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit):

To Snoop Dogg: “Snoop smoke so much weed that he farted and the whole front row got the munchies.”

“Flav is really smart, he gives all the girls on the show nicknames so their testimony won’t stand up in court.”

Jeff Ross (Executive Producer):

To Flavor Flav: “You look like Whoopi Goldberg and Gollum from Lord of the Rings.”

To Flavor Flav: “How do you roast charcoal…starving children send you 50 cents a day”¦ after all we are doing this all for a good cause — child support.”

Carrot Top (Comedian):

To all of the roasters: “Fuck all you people over here, what the fuck did I do to all of you except show up?”

Brigette Nielsen (Red Sonja, Surreal Life):

To Flavor Flav: “Flavor proposed to me, he gave me a big rock, and then he smoked it.”

“I thought I was going to be the only person here that was not a comedian, and then I saw Jimmy Kimmel and felt better.”

Patton Oswalt (Ratatouille, King of Queens):

To Flavor Flav: “You went from saying fuck the white man to I’m going to fuck a white man.”

PLEASE NOTE: Oswald was hilarious, but, I decided not to put more of his jokes in because they were a bit too risqué.

Snoop Dog (Rapper, Soul Plane):

To Katt Williams: “When did they start selling pimp clothes in Baby Gap”¦drinking that Hennessy out of that sippy cup.”

PLEASE NOTE: Snoop did a rap just for Flav.

Lisa Lampanelli (Delta Farce, Lisa Lampanelli: Dirty Girl):

“There are as many Flav’s kids as there are Jerry’s kids, the difference is Jerry’s kids have a brighter future.”

To Flavor Flav: “You look like beef jerky in a track suit”¦if Flav was any smaller, Angelina and Brad would try to adopt him.”

To Carrot Top: “I used to think they called you Carrot Top because of your red hair, now I see it’s because most people want to see you buried up to your forehead in dirt.”

Flavor Flav (honoree):

Flavor Flav addressed his roasters and gave most of them nicknames a la Flavor of Love. Here are some of my favorites along with the reason Flavor bestowed these names upon them.

Katt Williams: Sickle Cell

You may ask why, the reason is: “black folks the only one that get you.”

Brigitte Nielsen: Titty McGiant Jugs

You may ask why, the reason is: the name is self-explanatory.

Jimmy Kimmel: Funny

You may ask why, the reason is: he “should at least hear it once before [he] dies.”