| Foreword | 11 |
| Introduction | 13 |
| 1 | In the Beginning (Who the hell are these people who make Howard Stern seem like a virgin?) | 15 |
| 2 | The Early Years: Toasts Rule! (They may have worn tuxedos, but their tongues were dipped in venom!) | 48 |
| Clyde Fitch - 1907 | |
| Victor Herbert - 1907 | |
| Oscar Hammerstein - 1908 | |
| William Harris - 1910 | |
| Irving Berlin - 1912 | |
| Enrico Caruso - 1916 | |
| Al Jolson - 1918 | |
| Nellie Revell - 1924 | |
| Calvin Coolidge - 1925 | |
| Alfred E. Smith - 1925 | |
| Arthur "Bugs" Baer - 1926 | |
| Jimmy Walker - 1927 | |
| Fred Block - 1929 | |
| 3 | 1950s--Through the 1970s: Let the Roasts Begin and the Cheers Continue! (You've heard the laughter from behind closed doors-now take a look through the peephole!) | 66 |
| Maurice Chevalier Roast - 1949 (Why serve Welsh rarebit when you can have New Jersey tongue?) | |
| Sophie Tucker Roast - 1953 (She is woman, hear her roar!) | |
| Humphrey Bogart Roast - 1955 (Here's pokin' fun at you, kid!) | |
| Jimmy Cannon Roast - 1959 (Well, it's one of the few they still have on tape.) | |
| Milton Berle Roast - 1959 (This would be Roast number 5,003!) | |
| George Burns Roast - 1960 (Even then he was close to a hundred.) | |
| Alan King Roast - 1961 (But what about me?) | |
| Don Rickles Roast - 1968 (It's called payback, Don.) | |
| Joey Adams Roast - 1976 (Here's to the Friars' crier.) | |
| Neil Simon Roast - 1978 (He left holding the bag!) | |
| Norm Crosby Roast - 1979 (Norman, can you hear me?) | |
| Mike Todd Testimonial Dinner - 1958 (He never got a dinner.) | |
| Dinah Shore Testimonial Dinner - 1960 (Nuthin' could be finer!) | |
| Joe E. Lewis Testimonial Dinner - 1962 (Bottom's up!) | |
| Johnny Carson Testimonial Dinner - 1965 (He kept things flowing.) | |
| Barbra Streisand Testimonial Dinner - 1969 (Musical memories.) | |
| Carol Burnett Testimonial Dinner - 1973 (You sure it's not a Roast?) | |
| Frank Sinatra Testimonial Dinner - 1976 (Nobody move!) | |
| David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite, and Howard K. Smith Testimonial Dinner - 1978 (The Marx Brothers, were busy that night!) | |
| 4 | 1980s--Devilish Dinners and Rowdy Roasts (Tough guys and tempestuous gals) | 132 |
| Dr. Henry Kissinger Testimonial Dinner - 1980 (Accent on the testimony) | |
| Burt Reynolds Testimonial Dinner - 1981 (Everybody but his hair was there.) | |
| Buddy Hackett Testimonial Dinner - 1981 (Give this man a Roast!) | |
| Cary Grant Testimonial Dinner - 1982 (Cheers and tears) | |
| Elizabeth Taylor Testimonial Dinner - 1983 (Who's afraid of Joan Rivers?) | |
| Dean Martin Testimonial Dinner - 1984 (Shouldn't someone tell him he was there?) | |
| Milton Berle Testimonial Dinner - 1985 (Again!) | |
| Red Buttons Testimonial Dinner - 1987 (Finally, he got a dinner! Now shut up already!) | |
| Barbara Sinatra Testimonial Dinner - 1988 (Pretty in pink--sort of) | |
| Alan King Testimonial Dinner - 1989 (Memories of me, me, me!) | |
| Dick Shawn Roast - 1982 (Sometimes you just want to shower after a Roast.) | |
| Sid Caesar Roast - 1983 (Your Roast of Roasts!) | |
| Phyllis Diller - 1983 (Busted!) | |
| Phyllis Diller Roast - 1985 (Let the punishment fit the crime!) | |
| Jerry Lewis Roast - 1986 (France should be so lucky.) | |
| Rich Little Roast - 1987 (So much time, so little material.) | |
| Bruce Willis Roast - 1989 (Laugh hard!) | |
| 5 | Oh, Those Naughty '90 Making Whoopi--and More! (Exiting the century with the laughs intact!) | 199 |
| Diana Ross Testimonial Dinner - 1990 (Call me Miss Friar!) | |
| Clive Davis Testimonial Dinner - 1992 (Oh, my achin' back!) | |
| Barbara Walters Testimonial Dinner - 1994 (These people are journalists?) | |
| John Travolta and Kelly Preston Testimonial Dinner - 1997 (Kelly who?) | |
| Chevy Chase Roast - 1990 (A whole new world) | |
| Richard Pryor Roast - 1991 (The original Fried Friar) | |
| Billy Crystal Roast - 1992 (One shattered ego) | |
| Whoopi Goldberg - 1993 (The face that launched a thousand "Holy shit"'s!) | |
| Steven Seagal - 1995 (Bye, Bye Berley) | |
| Kelsey Grammer - 1996 (Pick a topic, any topic) | |
| Drew Carey Roast - 1997 (Friars, you're on the air!) | |
| Jerry Stiller Roast - 1999 (Swan Song) | |
| Epilogue | 253 |
| Acknowledgments | 255 |
| Index | 257 |
Format: Hardcover, 274 pages
