Only one man can say hes roasted Donald Trump and Abraham Lincoln: Jeff Ross.
I notice dead people dont complain as much, cracks Ross.
These are people who I would have loved to talk to and become friends and roasted.
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Everybody would say, Why dont you roast Hitler, that would be hilarious,' recalls Ross.
But I have to stay true to my mission of only roasting people that I admire.
I only roast the ones I love.
With Anne Frank, it seemed like too many people were forgetting her story.
for never forget, you have to be enlightened to what happened.
And he knew exactly who he needed.
It would have been like an amateur version without him.
I always would do a lot of research before the celebrity roasts, he shares.
I call it method roasting.
What would have made Martin Luther King Jr. or Anne Frank laugh?'
But I thought lets do some real honest, truthful comedy.
Jokes work best when they are based in fact.
But hes got his eye on even bigger names for the next Comedy Central Roast.
We want a whale.
A lot of people want to be roasted, but we are very particular.
And he has one in mind: Kanye, are you listening?
That might need to be a three-part miniseries.
Historical Roastspremieres Monday on Netflix.
