Ideas Quote by Stephen Starr

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

— Dane Cook

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

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

Roast dinners are my favourite.

— Lucy Beaumont

I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've…

— Jamie Oliver

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 guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing.

— Neal Brennan

If we have friends over for dinner, I do the cooking. I like the pressure of a big meal and the technical challenges of…

— Jed Mercurio

The only kind of restaurant I could imagine doing would be the extraordinarily snooty restaurant with three or four tables, and I would cook…

— Steve Albini

Our expertise is preparing foods in tough environments. We have a kitchen where we grill and roast and make smelly stuff happen, and then…

— David Castle

My mum made the best roasts.

— Craig David

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

— Sophie Cleverly