Just before a commercial break, Patrice O'Neal jokingly said, "This is gonna be my last show, man." Sadly, it was. Patrice died from complications from a stroke just two months later.
During his set, Steve-O made a joke that he later requested be removed before the broadcasting of the roast.
The joke: "The last time this many nobodies were at a roast, at least Great White was playing."
The joke: "The last time this many nobodies were at a roast, at least Great White was playing."
- a reference to the February 20, 2003, The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island, in which 100 people lost their lives after a fire broke out because of a pyrotechnic malfunction while the band, Great White, played.
The reason why Charlie Sheen arrived on stage riding on a replica of a locomotive is because his character in "Two and a Half Men" had been killed off by getting hit by a train.
Charlie Sheen had initially agreed to not having any restrictions on the jokes. However, as a guest on his show, Jay Leno asked him if anyone had crossed the line and Sheen admitted to having requested jokes about his mother be edited out of the roast. It is unknown which Roaster(s) made the jokes.
A montage of Charlie Sheen's entire film and television work was featured at the beginning of the roast, but it did not contain any clips of his work on "Two and a Half Men". This was due to legal reasons and due to the ongoing feud Sheen was having with the producers of the show.