If you’re not familiar with Jeff Ross, he is best known as the “Roastmaster General” — a three-decade master of the savage comic sport introduced by the Friars Club in the 1950s, in which a procession ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Take a Banana for the Ride, the one-man show marking the Broadway debut of “Roastmaster General” Jeff Ross, will ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff Ross, a comedian known for hosting brutal roasts of celebrities, is coming to Broadway this summer with a one-man autobiographical show that will offer fans a softer, more ...

His crowd work involved asking audience members to stand up and share anything “heavy” they were going through. Surprisingly, dozens stood up.

Jeff Ross is constantly traveling for work, flying across the country – often hitting multiple cities in the same weekend – for comedy gigs. But the veteran stand-up had held onto his Manhattan ...

The roast master, who recently beat stage 3 colon cancer, explains how he (very luckily!) discovered he had the disease in ...

Who knew the Roastmaster General was such a softy? But in fact, a juicy sentimental blob is what the decidedly disarming “Take a Banana for the Ride” reveals the comedian Jeff Ross to be. Reaching a ...

That’s not a fair assessment of the show, though, which is directed by Stephen Kessler and actually is far more complex and better written than I think many will anticipate. Ross gets away with such a ...

Jeff Ross entertains the Brooklyn crowd at the Chosen Comedy Festival. Photo by Perry Bindelglass Comedian Jeff Ross lost his parents by the age of 19, lost his hair after making his mark in Hollywood ...