The Roast
Video clips with running commentary, MST3K-style.
Feature No. 1
"Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV."
- “The bar was on the floor. He still had to duck to clear it.”
- “Five nouns, no sentence, presented as proof of genius.”
- “Somewhere a neurologist is quietly screaming into a pillow.”
- “It's a screening test. He wore it like a gold medal.”
Feature No. 2
The disinfectant briefing
- “Turns out 'doing your own research' has a floor, too.”
- “Dr. Birx's face said everything the transcript can't.”
- “Somewhere, a bottle of Lysol filed a restraining order.”
- “"It sounds interesting to me" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.”
Feature No. 3
"Very fine people on both sides"
- “A press conference that started about infrastructure and ended up defining a presidency.”
- “The follow-up nobody wanted him to answer again. He answered again.”
- “Some quotes age like milk. This one aged like milk left in the sun.”
Feature No. 4
The solar eclipse, no glasses
- “An aide yelled 'Don't look!' The response was to look.”
- “NASA spent decades building eclipse-safety awareness. This undid a chunk of it in four seconds.”
- “The most expensive sunglasses budget in the country, and he waited.”