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HISTORICAL ROASTS
May 27, 2019  | By David Bianculli

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: Back in the 1970s, Steve Allen hosted an intriguing PBS series called Meeting of Minds, in which he hosted a dinner party populated by performers impersonating historical figures. (The opener featured Theodore Roosevelt, Cleopatra, Thomas Paine and St. Thomas Aquinas breaking bread together.) Today on Netflix, deceased talk-show guests are featured once again – but this time in a roast format, hosted by Comedy Central roastmaster general Jeff Ross. Guests of honor, each “roasted” by other fellow non-living celebrities, include Abraham Lincoln, Freddie Mercury, and, once again, Cleopatra.

 
 
 
 
 
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