In 1973, The Dean Martin Show was declining in popularity. So for the 1973 - 1974 season, a new feature called a "roast" was added to try to pick up the ratings. The roasts seemed to be pretty popular among television audiences. So after the show was cancelled in 1974, NBC drew up a contract with Dean to do several specials and do more roast specials. Enter The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Starting with Bob Hope in 1974, the roast was taped in California and turned out to be a hit, leading to many other roasts to follow. In the fall of 1974, the roasts moved permanently to the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. From 1974 until early 1979, in the hotel's Ziegfeld Room, stars like Frank Sinatra, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Collins, and many others were roasted.
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts Originally Aired on NBC
Premiered : September 13, 1973 Last Aired : December 1, 1984 Show Categories : Variety Shows, Comedy
BLAST FROM THE PAST TRIVIA
Who was the celebrity roasted in the final show on December 1, 1984?
Michael Landon is roasted a second time appearing with Dean on the dais are guests Melissa Gilbert, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene, Merlin Olsen, Vic Tayback, Maureen Murphy, Rich Little, Pat Harrington, Dick Butkus, Bubba Smith, Dick Shawn, Norm Crosby, Orson Welles, Don Rickles and Slappy White
THINGS YOUR MOM USED TO SAY (HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY)
Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going to have company. Quit slamming the screen door when you go out! Don't you go outside with your school clothes on! Go comb your hair; it looks like the rats have nested in it all night. Here's a dollar. Get 5 gallons of gas when you go to town. Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed. Don't sit too close to the TV. It is hard on your eyes. Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on after awhile. Eating those turnips, they'll make you big and strong like your daddy. Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck that way! Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping it messes up the thread! Open the back door and see if we can get a breeze through here, it is getting hot. It's: 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me, young man, and don't you forget it! Be sure and pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like a shower is coming up Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've been playing outside all day barefooted.
You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on. Wash under your neck before you come to the table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there. No! I don't have 10 cents for you to go to the show. Do you think money grows on trees? That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't care how cold it is out there, dogs don't stay in the house. Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut straight and you keep moving and it is all messed up. Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words like that! I'll wash your mouth out with soap! If you get a spanking in school and I find out about it, you'll get another one when you get home. .
This Month We Look Back At Articles From The McCarty Metro May 1993 / 1995 Paper Editions
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Wok With Me by Karen McCarty
I am taking a wok cooking class. Even though I am paying for this class, I thought I'd share the recipes with my fellow Metro readers for free. Today's oriental dish: Fried rice and cat.
Ingredients: . Rice Lots of Chinese looking vegetables from a Chinese looking store A wok A cat
First, spread rice around in Wok. Stir until it stops being clingy. Dump in veggies. Stir some more. Next, insert pieces of cat. (Note: Of you didn't have cat parts already prepared, you'll have to find your own cat in the neighborhood, give him the ol' rainbarrel treatment and allow to dry) One bite and you'll say "Ah so good" Next month: Won Ton Dog
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GUESS THE YEAR
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Last Month's
Comic Character Was Sluggo
Congratulations
to Raelene
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1920 U.S. Census
On this page of the 1920 US Census, it shows Dad's family on Willis St. in Detroit when Vincent was the baby at 9 months. Note that is says McCarthy. Even the Federal Government gets our name wrong. Jerry McCarty reports that other notable Detroiters in 1920: Henry Frod and Ty Codd
LOOK UP THE STAIRS ON SUSSEX, PUT YOUR THINKING CAP ON, AND SUBMIT YOUR BLAST FROM THE PAST MEMORIES. WHO KNOWS... WE MAY EVEN COVER IT IN A FUTURE METRO
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