Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson: Uncensored (2005)
Paramount Home Video

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With a record 11 Playboy covers under her garter belt, her ever-changing bra size and a videography that ranges from Home Improvement to Baywatch, V.I.P. and that infamous home movie with Tommy Lee, Pamela Anderson is a comedy roaster's wet dream. Roastmaster Jimmy Kimmel kicks off this 2005 affair by acknowledging Anderson's dating history ("Pam's screwed more musicians than Napster") and it goes way downhill from there. Sarah Silverman jumps to Pam's defense: "Some people say she wouldn't be anything without her tits. Not true; she'd be Paris Hilton." Andy Dick, posing as her plastic surgeon, gives a hands-on demonstration of the structural integrity of Pam's rack.

Dignified comedy grande dame Bea Arthur reads aloud choice excerpts from Pamela's "fictional" novel Star Struck about mud wrestling and anal sex. Everyone on stage tries to outdo his predecessor in terms of bad taste. But not Hef and the girlfriends, who convey their appreciation through a video greeting. Also on the dais, inexplicably, are Dennis Rodman, and a continually disruptive Courtney Love-Cobain, who looks not unlike Kirstie Alley at the top of the scales and who purports to be sober. Race-baiting barnstormer Lisa Lampanelli brings it all home with a tip of the hat to past Pam loves Brett Michaels, Scott Baio and Marcus Schenkenberg: "Her life story should be a show on VH1 called I Fucked the '80s."

The only bonus that matters is that this ruthlessly funny roast, originally edited for broadcast on Comedy Central, is uncensored on DVD. In fact, the only word bleeped out on the entire disc is "Coke" in the phrase "Diet Coke."

Bundled extras -- like red carpet interviews conducted by ditz Natasha Leggero, are pretty lame, although her interview with Rodman ("Are you still playing baseball?") is pretty ballsy. Most telling is rehearsal footage of Courtney Love-Cobain trying out her stand-up, with a little help from Andy Dick. Maybe, just maybe, she's not on drugs after all.

by Rob. Walton