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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast was an NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean Martin from 1974–1984. For a series of 54 specials and shows, Martin and his friends would "roast" a celebrity. The roasts were patterned after the roasts held at the New York Friars' Club.
History.
In 1973, "The Dean Martin Show" was declining in popularity. In its final season, to pick up the ratings and to require less of Martin's involvement, it was
in the "Best of Dean Martin Variety Show" series, but neither of those suits affected sales of the home video collection.
Unaffected by legal disputes were "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast" specials, which continue to be marketed on DVD by Guthy-Renker. Total revenues from Dean Martin DVD sales have been rumored to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Martin shows have not been on television since their original telecasts.
On February 3, 2011, it was revealed that a brand new package