SiriusXM will launch Friars Club Radio, a new channel dedicated to the famed Friars Club, on Aug. 6, TheWrap has exclusively learned. The channel will play the never-before-heard archive of the club’s ...

If you’re not familiar with Jeff Ross, he is best known as the “Roastmaster General” — a three-decade master of the savage comic sport introduced by the Friars Club in the 1950s, in which a procession ...

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Tracy Morgan was roasted by The Friars Club at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, but one of the sharpest jabs was pointed at attendee Anthony Weiner. A source tells us comic Sherri Shepherd was making comedic ...

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celebrities and comedians showed up in full force to roast legendary comedic actress Betty White on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City. While ...

Legendary Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is getting in the hot seat to be roasted by the Friars Club. "It's an honor the Friars Club has deemed me worthy of roasting," Weinstein said in a ...

Ross was a little-known stand-up comic before his work as a producer of and participant in the Friars Club roasts put him on the map. Now people come to his stand-up gigs expecting to see a roast — so ...

Roasts of legendary comedians like Jerry Lewis are now available online. Oct. 10, 2010— -- For the first time, the Friars have made available online "The Classic Friars Club Roasts," a DVD box ...

It’s no joke. The famous Friars Club, New York City’s private club for showbiz folks and a longtime venue for comedy roasts, could finally close its curtains after facing foreclosure and years of ...

Pat Cooper, a longtime stand-up comedian, died Tuesday. He was 93. Steve Garrin, Cooper's producer and writing partner, confirmed to Fox News Digital that the beloved comic died at home in Las Vegas. ...