Kathleen Madigan and Season I’s champion Dat Phan are gone! As are Jay London and Ralphie May!
This means, of course, that Heffron and Mordal will go through to the final four and that only two of this evening’s roasters (one from each team) will survive the voting and go up against them.
The roast format was pleasant and entertaining enough, the highlight of which was Jeffery Ross. (We assume that Ross is repped by Barry Katz… Which makes this whole appearance delicious revenge against Comedy Central for snaking the Friars’ Roast franchise out from under Ross. The Ross-hosted Friars’ Roast was the highest-rated show Comedy Central had ever had up until that point, then they went and took it away and gave some lame new-age celebrity roast show to Denis Leary with some sort of nonsense about attracting a younger demo. Sheesh! Have you heard anything about the Leary show since? We didn’t think so.)
We wouldn’t wanna follow Ross at a roast! We certainly wouldn’t wanna follow Ross followed by Triumph! That dog was hot! Our favorites: “If Rich Vos were any more rat-faced, Dat Phan would have eaten him by now!” (A twofer! Nice!) and “Jay Mohr’s career is like my poop– it was hot for five minutes!”
And, though she wasn’t even present, Bonnie McFarlane got slammed twice tonight! Hey, as long as they spell the name right.
Predictions: Vos and Gary Gulman will go on to compete in the final four. Further prediction: Traci says that Heffron will win Season III.
One more note: Was that Troy Conrad and his lovely wife in the audience?
At left: Troy Conrad and his lovely wife photographed last month at the Improv on Melrose (Note photo of Todd Glass in the background)