"Bea Arthur stormed out of Anderson’s Friar’s Club roast for what reason?"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.radarmagazine.com/web-only/the-gossip-quiz/2005/08/balls-out-bea.php

According to The National Enquirer , Bea Arthur stormed out of Pamela Anderson’s Friar’s Club roast for what reason?

A. She and Rip Taylor arrived wearing the exact same wig.
B. Sid Caesar asked if she’d like to "see where the horse bit him."
C. Jeffrey Ross made a crack implying that she has a penis.
D. While Bea grazed at the buffet, Andy Dick slipped a live opossum down her dress.
E. She and Pamela Anderson arrived wearing the exact same breasts.

Answer: C

[Fenris]

1. She was an odd fit among all those no-name "talents"

Restrained yet still rattled off the filthy lines of Anderson's "novel". She was much too classy to be in that blue-fest.

[greekspeak]

2. Leave Bea Alone!

I love that gal. She is super-cool.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Yes, Bea is cool...

...that's why she got a DU thread...

:evilgrin:

:toast:

[greekspeak]

10. Yeah Bea!

:toast:

[Misunderestimator]

11. And is that why you used a photo with a caption like that?

To honor her?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

16. Happy now?

I love it when people tell me what my intentions are.

Photo's gone.

The world is safe again.

Consider putting me on "ignore."

[Misunderestimator]

19. Yeah, you explained it in the post below... I get it, it's someone else's.

I can still be offended by the sexist nature of the picture can I not?

Oh... and thanks for removing it...

[Shell Beau]

3. They were pretty harsh to her, and I was wondering why

she was there to begin with! :shrug:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Friars Club Roasts are known for being raw and tasteless...

...and often the "humor," I think, is meant to inflict at least a little bit of pain.

However, the real barbs are usually directed toward the "roastee," so I dunno...

:shrug:

[Fenris]

13. 'Twasn't the Friar's Club, laddie. 'Twas Comedy Central.

;)

[Shell Beau]

15. Well, to be fair, everyone got it pretty bad.

She was, by no means, the only one getting put down. But I felt so sorry for her. Poor Bea! I guess you ask for it in a way by going to those things, especially one for Pam Anderson.

[newsguyatl]

4. i actually saw that

and even the whole show was laden with obscenities and vulgarities, i thought ross went over the line with that.

that's not cool to joke about with a lady of her age, imo.

but perhaps i'm just a prude.

[gmoney]

9. It's a recurring theme...

For some reason, she shows up to ALL those roasts, and they always make jokes about her having dude parts... if she expected something different this time, she's deluded.

The roast did have its moments...

[newsguyatl]

20. ah ok

that was the first and only one i ever saw so i didn't know...

but if they've done that before, not sure why she'd be so offended this time around then.

i have to admit, i felt sorry for her when he made that joke...

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Shady Pines, Ma!

[Shell Beau]

18. I watch the Golden Girls reruns on Lifetime every

night while I am laying in bed to go to sleep.I've seen every episode at least 5 times. Gotta love Sophia!

[Misunderestimator]

7. I don't appreciate the caption under her photo.

Not a bit.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. That's Radar's caption...

...it's the photo that went with the article, and there was no way to just post the photo.

Given the editorial slant of Radar, I see it more as a poke at the insensitivity that spawned the remarks in the first place, rather than an endorsement of them or their own attack on Bea.

Of course, I'm not the person who put the caption there, so I can't say what their intention was.

[Misunderestimator]

17. I'm still offended by the picture. Isn't that why you posted it?

[Shell Beau]

21. It does kind of go with the Bea having a penis theme.

But I totally understand what you mean. It is tasteless. Not necessarily on the OP's part, but still tasteless.

[sendero]

14. I thought....

... shde dished it and took it pretty well. I didn't know she "stormed off", she seemed to be holding her own.

[jane_pippin]

22. Good for her.

I'm pissed that the first woman roasted was Pam. Nothing against Pam, but I'd hoped Comedy Central would have roasted someone else for their first roast of a woman--Janeane, Sarah Silverman, Ellen, Margaret Cho...

But no. Oh well.

[Shell Beau]

28. Yeah, but they knew Pam would get the

viewers and that is all they care about. But she really didn't deserve a roast IMO!

[dr.strangelove]

23. I doubt this is true

Friar's Club roasts are a long running NY tradition. Phyllis Diller once said “When The Friars Club roasts you, you’ve arrived.” They have lost exclusivity since they became revenue producing items for the group (good comics don't make good TV ratings but Andy Dick molesting Pam Anderson's breasts on TV scores big).

The funny thing about these roasts is that the roastee is usually the subject of less jokes than the guests. The guests seated on the stage with the roastee are often the subject of dozens of barbs. Bea is a friar and has been since a few years after Liza became the first female Friar. Bea knows what goes on here. Jokes about Bea's masculinity are hardly a first, and are definitely not a first at Friar roasts. She has been picked apart at roasts in the past. I personally find it hard to believe Bea Arthur stormed out after this type of joke. I usually don't trust the National Enquirer as a source and don't in this case. If Bea left, I don't believe it had anything to do with Jeffrey Ross's wise crack.

[jane_pippin]

24. It wasn't Friars club. It was a Comedy Central produced roast

hosted by one of the old Man Show guys.

You're right about the status of Friars Club roasts, but this was not that.

Having said that, I don't know if it's true--I had no interest in watching it. It may well not be. But given what I saw in the promos I wouldn't be surprised if she did.

on edit: the article is from the Enquirer so I take it with a grain of salt anyway.

[dr.strangelove]

29. I thought it was a Friars roast

I did not know it was a comedy central production. Still, Bea is an old school comic. She has given it pretty good over the years at these types of roasts. I'm sure she was okay with it. She is nto the type to get pissed because someone calls her old looking or a man. She has heard it all before and dished it worse than these kids today can imagine. I love Bea and have way more faith in her than that. Granted this is all my opinion. I just don't buy that she was pissed about this.

[LibertyorDeath]

25. Yeah but can she get herself pregnant with it a la Cartmans mum\dad

"C. Jeffrey Ross made a crack implying that she has a penis."

She can't act her way out of a wet paper bag FFS
She makes Julia Roberts seem talented.

[progmom]

are you saying Bea Arthur can't act?

You are sadly mistaken.

[Shell Beau]

31. I agree. I love Bea Arthur. Golden Girls is one of

the best sitcoms.

[progmom]

32. and Maude.

ground-breaking TV.

[Shell Beau]

33. Absolutely and....

She has been recognized for her work in television with two Emmys, for Maude and Golden Girls, and has five times been nominated for an American Comedy Award's "Lifetime Achievement Award."

So, nah, to those who say she's no good. :P

[ghostsofgiants]

26. I would have assumed there were dinosaurs that needed headlocks...

[Dukkha]

27. That roast looked like a big NA meeting

The skank level was so extreme they'll need a hazmat crew to fumigate the auditorium for a week. Bea Arthur was one of a few there who wasn't swimming with STDs.

and furthermore people, look at the "news" souce
IT'S THE FUCKING NATIONAL ENQUIRER PEOPLE!
I highly doubt she stormed out.

[underpants]

30. The original joke was from a few roasts back

I can't remember who is was for but Sandra Bernhardt (sp?) was there and Ross (hilarious) gets up to roast the roasters and says, "Geezsh what's up with that Sandra Bernhardt... I wouldn't ____ her with Bea Arthur's d**k"

I thought someone else used that line this time.

[Moderator]

34. Locking.

This thread is dangerously close to bursting into flames.