Quote by Shon Brooks

A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the…

— Bootsy Collins

Great boast, small roast.

— Chinese Proverb

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

— Dane Cook

I have a theory, which is that the idea of a roast is to go to this forbidden, uncomfortable, almost performance-art-level shock place, but…

— Whitney Cummings

I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.

— Nicole Byer

When I first started doing these roasts in the mid '90s, they were a lost art, like jousting or calligraphy. But I feel like…

— Jeff Ross

“Make It Easy”

— Kenji Hikmatullah

“The food was slices of some kind of roast meat in a watery gravy,”

— Sophie Cleverly

“Simple doesn't have to mean easy.”

— Philipp Keel

“An epic simplicity”

— Yann Martel

Simple is a wonderful

— Me

“It's not easy, but it's simple.”

— Eric Thomas