Jeffrey Ross Friars Club's Roastmaster General Ross pokes fun at fellow performers and his country. His Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie won Best Feature Film at the 2005 Montreal Comedy Festival.
Sample skewering: "What can you really say about Carson Daly that hasn't already been said about that retarded boy that won the lottery?"
The Reverend Bob Levy
Crowd work and off-the-cuff comebacks are almost as vital to Levy's comedic bag of tricks as leather, swagger and an unnatural affinity for blue cheese. The fact that he drinks like a fish also seems to keep the invectives flowing. Sample skewering: "Donkey punch, my brother, donkey punch! Look at you, you f--king mentally retarded-looking motherf--ker. I love you!"
Judah Friedlander
It's not that the 30 Rock actor directly insults audiences. It's just that his stage persona is better than them when it comes to athleticism, military combat, sexual prowess and just about every other area of life.
Sample skewering: "I'm the World Champion." "Of what?" "Of the world. That's why it says ‘World Champion.' How much more I gotta break it down for ya? People are always like, ‘Hey, where'd you get that hat?' I'm like, ‘At the World Championships, when I f--king won that shit. Where'd you think I got it, at the regional semifinals?'"
Wilmer Valderrama
Though not a stand-up, the former That '70s Show actor created, hosts and executive-produces MTV's Yo Momma, a one-on-one verbal competition that owes as much to Rickles as it does urban schoolyard culture. Sample skewering: "Yo momma is so fat, when she dances, the band skips."
Lisa Lampanelli
The Loveable Queen of Mean is a perennial high point on the current wave of Comedy Central roasts, and she's received perhaps the highest honor of any successor to the Insult Throne: the title of "The Female Don Rickles."
Sample skewering: "I wouldn't f--k Bea Arthur's c--k with Andy Dick's p-ssy!"