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Jeff Ross
Jeff Ross, Joint Base Andrews, May 2016 (cropped).jpg
Ross in May 2016
PseudonymRoastmaster General
Birth nameJeffrey Ross Lifschultz [1]
Born (1965-09-13) September 13, 1965 (age 59)
MediumStand-up, television, film
Alma mater Boston University (B.S.)
Years active1989–present
Genres Observational comedy, insult comedy, black comedy, cringe comedy, satire
Subject(s) American politics, Jewish culture, popular culture, self-deprecation, sex, current events, religion
Notable works and roles Comedy Central Roasts
Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie
The Burn with Jeff Ross
Website roastmastergeneral.com

Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz (born September 13, 1965) [2] is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is best known as the "Roastmaster General" for his insult comedy, his multiple appearances at celebrity roasts held by the New York Friars Club, the Comedy Central Roast television series, and the Netflix historical comedy series Historical Roasts . [3] [4] [5] [6] In 2009 the Chicago Tribune called Ross "the new millennium Don Rickles." [7] His directorial debut, the 2006 documentary Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie , won the prize for Best Film at the Comedia film festival held at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. [8] [9]

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Early life

Ross was raised in Newark, New Jersey, until he was in second grade; then his family moved to Union, New Jersey, and later to Springfield, New Jersey, where he attended Jonathan Dayton High School. [10] [11] He is Jewish and has a younger sister named Robyn. [2] [12] [13] His mother Marsha died from leukemia when he was 14 years old. [10] [13] [14] His father died of drug-related causes when Ross was 19 years old and attending college. [10] [14] His father owned and ran Clinton Manor Catering, a business that was started by Ross's great-grandmother. [15] The business was located in Newark, and later moved to Union. [15]

Ross attended Boston University as a broadcasting and film major with a minor in political science. [16] [17] He graduated from the Boston University College of Communication in 1987. [17] Ross also worked as the music director at the university's student-run radio station WTBU in addition to working for the university's public radio station WBUR where he was an audio engineer. [17]

Career

Stand-up, writing and roast comedy

Ross began performing stand-up in 1989 after attending a comedy class. [18] He appeared on A&E's An Evening at the Improv in 1994. [1] By 1995 he was performing at iconic New York clubs like the Comedy Cellar and Stand Up NY. [19] That same year he was invited by the New York Friars Club to participate in a roast of actor Steven Seagal. [16] [20]

Ross became a regular at the Friars Club roasts and was given the title of "Roastmaster General". [21] [22] The Friars Club's first televised event was the roast of Drew Carey that was broadcast on Comedy Central in 1998. [13] [23] Ross credits a particular joke that he made at the expense of attendees Bea Arthur and Sandra Bernhard at the 1999 roast of Jerry Stiller for taking his roasting career to the next level. [24] That same year Jimmy Kimmel hired Ross as a writer on The Man Show and Ross also wrote some of the punchlines for Billy Crystal's monologue at the Oscars in 2000. [13]

In 2003 Comedy Central began producing their own celebrity roasts. [23] Ross has been a roaster at all Comedy Central roasts since the 2005 roast of Pamela Anderson. [3] [16] During his Comedy Central Roast appearances Ross became known for dressing up in edgy and sometimes controversial costumes: He roasted Charlie Sheen dressed as Muammar Gaddafi; he roasted Rob Lowe dressed as Purple Rain -era Prince on an episode that aired five months after the musician's death; he roasted Roseanne Barr dressed as the late football coach Joe Paterno during the height of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal; he also roasted James Franco wearing cornrows and a neck tattoo in reference to Franco's character in the 2012 film Spring Breakers . [13] [25]

Ross has participated as a roaster on the following Comedy Central Roasts:

Ross has also written for, performed in or produced the roasts of the following celebrities:

Ross at Joint Base Andrews in May 2016 160505-D-DB155-011 Comedian Jeff Ross at Joint Base Andrews in May 2016.jpg
Ross at Joint Base Andrews in May 2016

Ross has taken part in several USO tours and has performed stand-up comedy at US military bases in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. [13] Ross first traveled to Iraq in 2003 as part of a comedy tour hosted by Drew Carey. [26] In 2005 Ross released the film Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie , which he both produced and directed and which documented his experiences on the Iraq tour. [26] That same year the film won the prize for Best Film at the Comedia film festival, a comedy film festival held annually in Montreal as part of the Just for Laughs comedy festival. [9] In 2006 the film was shown on Showtime and also screened at that year's South by Southwest Film Festival. [26] [27] In 2017 the USO made Ross the Ambassador of Veterans Outreach for the Artists & Athletes Alliance. [28]

Ross published his first book, I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges, in 2009. [28] [29] The book recounts his journey to becoming Roastmaster General and includes tips on writing roast jokes and how to put on a roast. [28] [29]

Ross was the creator and host of the comedy panel show The Burn with Jeff Ross , which aired on Comedy Central for two seasons from 2012 to 2013. [30]

In 2015, Ross starred in the Comedy Central special Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live from Brazos County Jail, where he performed stand-up comedy for male and female convicts in Brazos County, Texas. [31] [32] The following year he released Jeff Ross Roasts Cops where he performed for members of the Boston Police Department. [3] [28]

Ross and comedian Brian Moses launched Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle on Comedy Central in 2016. [31] The show consists of comedians competing in one-on-one roast battles where the winners are decided by Ross and a panel of guest judges. [31] [32] Ross also appeared as a battler in final episode of the show's third season in a battle with NBA player Blake Griffin. [33]

In 2018 Ross and fellow comedian Dave Attell embarked on their Bumping Mics comedy tour. [34] Footage of their tour was also released in a three-part special, Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attell , on Netflix, [35] the series was filmed during three of their performances at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. [35] Their shows consisted of observational and political humor interspersed with Ross and Attell roasting one another as well as members of the audience. [36] [37] The comedians also invited audience members onto the stage, some of whom included Bob Saget, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Che, Amy Schumer, Nikki Glaser and Paul Rudd. [35]

Starting in 2019, Netflix began airing the series Historical Roasts , where Ross hosts fictionalized versions of comedy roasts for figures like Abraham Lincoln and Anne Frank.

Acting and voice work

One of Ross's first acting roles was a small part in the 1996 comedy film Celtic Pride . [38] [39] Some of his other film roles include a security guard in the film Stuck on You (2003) and a wedding band leader in the film Along Came Polly (2004). [8] [40] Ross's television acting work includes roles on HBO's Six Feet Under and Crashing , and Showtime's Weeds . [21] [41] He also played a dramatic role on CBS's CSI . [8] [21]

Ross was co-creator of the satirical animated program Where My Dogs At? that was broadcast on MTV2 in 2006. The series centers around characters Buddy, a beagle voiced by Ross, and Woof, a bulldog voiced by Tracy Morgan. [42] Ross has also voiced characters on two episodes of the animated series Future-Worm! as well as on an episode of the live-action/animated series Happy! [43] [44] He also voiced himself in the 2012 episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold , "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth!", attending a literal roast of Batman. [45]

Other appearances as himself

Ross appeared in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats about the famous dirty joke of the same name. [40]

He was the guest on the debut episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast in 2009 and also appeared on the podcast's 800th episode in 2017. [28]

Ross appeared in the third tournament of Celebrity Poker in 2004, but lost in his first match. [21] He was also a competitor on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars that aired in 2008. [21] During rehearsal for their first dance, his dancing partner Edyta Śliwińska accidentally poked Ross in the eye, causing a scratched cornea. [21] Against medical advice, Ross continued the competition, but the couple were the first to be eliminated. [21]

In 2011 Ross visited the protesters of the Occupy movement in Los Angeles to support their cause. [38] He took to the microphone at a stage set-up at Los Angeles City Hall. [38] His talk included roasting Wall Street and the big banks. [38]

In 2019, he appeared on an episode of Crank Yankers as himself.

Personal life

Ross credits his tough upbringing in New Jersey for helping him develop his talent for insult comedy, which he says he developed as a defense mechanism. [20] [46] Ross stated in an interview with The Atlanta Constitution : "Everyone in my family was good at [roasting]. I had to quickly learn not just to take a joke but to give it back. My uncle Murray was the first to bust my chops. We called him Mean Murray." [46]

In June 2020, an allegation that Ross had engaged in a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old when he was 34 was published in the media; his accuser, Jessica Radtke, had also posted these allegations on her Facebook page in 2019. [47] [48] Ross denied the allegations. [49] [50] In November 2020, Ross filed a defamation suit in the New York State Supreme Court, in which multiple named witnesses (including Radtke's father) refuted her allegations; Radtke was accused of extorting Ross for "significant sums of money". [51] He dropped the case in March 2023. [52]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
1996 Celtic Pride Car Theft Victim
1998 Taxman Tax Collector
2000 Isn't She Great Shecky
2000 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle District Attorney
2003 National Security Security Guard
2003 Stuck on You Beaze Security Guard
2004 Along Came Polly Wedding Band Leader
2006 American Dreamz Oscar
2007 Farce of the Penguins Funny-Looking BastardVoice
2008 One, Two, Many ErnieDirect-to-video
2011 A Novel Romance Douglas Silver
2015 The Wedding Ringer Wedding Singer
2016 Flock of Dudes Masturbator
2016 The Comedian Writer
2017 Gilbert HimselfDocumentary
2017 The Emoji Movie Internet TrollVoice [53]
2024 Ricky Stanicky Rabbi Greenberg
2024 Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year SelfComedy Special

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1994A&E's An Evening at the ImprovHimselfEpisode: "Dom Irrera, Bob Dubac, Jeff Ross, and more!"
1996 Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist JeffreyVoice, episode: "Blind Date" [53]
1999 Cosby Carl2 episodes
2000 Shasta McNasty Bank ManagerEpisode: "True Size"
2002 Greg the Bunny Security GuardEpisode: "Welcome to Sweetknuckle Junction"
2002 Six Feet Under Shiva ComicEpisode: "Back to the Garden"
2003 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Dougie MaxEpisode: "Last Laugh"
2005 Weeds BillyEpisode: "Dead in the Nethers"
2006 Where My Dogs At? BuddyVoice, 8 episodes
2007 The Sarah Silverman Program HimselfEpisode: "Ah, Men"
2010 Childrens Hospital HimselfEpisode: "Joke Overload"
2011 Big Time Rush Insult ComicEpisode: "Big Time Guru"
2011 Batman: The Brave and the Bold HimselfVoice, episode: "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth!" [53]
2012 Family Guy HimselfVoice, 2 episodes
2012–2013 The Burn with Jeff Ross Himself12 episodes
2014 Drunk History Francis Scott Key Episode: "Baltimore"
2014 The Simpsons HimselfVoice, episode: "Clown in the Dumps"
2014 Comedy Bang! Bang! HimselfEpisode: "Amber Tamblyn Wears a Leather Jacket & Black Booties"
2016 Grandfathered MarvEpisode: "Some Guy I'm Seeing"
2016 Dr. Ken DougEpisode: "Ken Tries Standup"
2016–2018 Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle Himself19 episodes
2016 The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show Aristophanes Voice, episode: "Aristophanes" [53]
2016 Future-Worm! Mr. BleakerVoice, 2 episodes
2017–2018 Crashing Himself2 episodes
2017–2019 Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure Hook FootVoice, 24 episodes [53]
2017 American Dad! Chief DannyVoice, episode: "Camp Campawanda"
2017 Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero SonnyVoice, 2 episodes [53]
2017 Teachers Fire Marshal BrownsteinEpisode: "Toxic Workplace"
2018 Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross & Dave Attell Himself3 episodes
2019 Sneaky Pete D.C. Doug4 episodes
2019 Happy! TwigsVoice, 2 episodes
2019 Historical Roasts Himself6 episodes
2019–2020 Crank Yankers HimselfVoice, 2 episodes
2021 Ghost Adventures Himself1 episode
2021 The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse Lead Ghost Voice, episode: "Houseghosts"
2023 Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Himself - ContestantEpisode: "Lauren Lapkus, Ego Nwodim and Jeff Ross"
2024 Stupid Pet Tricks HimselfEpisode: "Animal Speed Roast"
2024 Lopez vs Lopez JeffEpisode: "Lopez vs the Roast of George Lopez"

Discography

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