Image Credit: Glenn Harris/PR PhotosOscar-winning director-writer-producer-actor Quentin Tarantino will be tenderly roasted at a very classy Friars Club Roast that probably won’t go to the trouble of creating a creepy sculpture 17 times the size of him, like Comedy Central did for David Hasselhoff. Samuel L. Jackson will be “Roastmaster” for the event to be held Friday, Oct. 1 at the New York Hilton.
Other guests: Kathy Griffin, Pam Grier, Neve Campbell, Michael Madsen, Eli Roth, Patricia Arquette, Rob Schneider, Uma Thurman, Harvey Weinstein, Sarah Silverman, Rosario Dawson, Bob Weinstein, Michelle Rodriguez, and more! Maybe you, if you crash it! They’ll probably let anyone with a Vincent Vega wig in. Who are these “friars” to say you are not John Travolta? Oh my God. Are you John Travolta? [PRNewswire]
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i hope this one is better than most of the recent comedy central roasts. they keep getting the same people who tell the same jokes about the other roasters that it doesnt matter who is actually being roasted. anyone could be roasted and you couldnt tell the difference from one show to the next.
You can’t roast an egomaniac like Tarantino. If anyone cuts too close to the bone, he will surely punch a few people before the night is through. They should usher in a few fanboys, who can make mention of his Leno-esque chin or the fact that his movies are always nothing more than a pastiche of other, better films his fans are too ignorant to have seen or heard of. No man has been called a genius more for raiding his own DVD collection for “inspiration.”