Crocodile Dundee legend Paul Hogan gets roasted by comedians including pal Shane Jacobson in Channel Seven comedy special
Legendary Australian actor Paul Hogan has filmed his first live comedy roast for Channel Seven.
The LA-based star, 82, recently arrived in Melbourne to film a one-night-only comedy special hosted by his longtime pal Shane Jacobson.
TV Blackbox reports The Roast Of Paul Hogan was filmed in front of a packed audience at Melbourne’s Crown Casino last week.
Coming soon: Legendary Australian Paul Hogan, 82, (left) has been roasted during a one-night-only live comedy show at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. The comedy special was filmed for Channel Seven and will air later this year. The roast was hosted by Hogan’s comedian friend Shane Jacobson
The special featured a dozen of Australia’s funniest comedians and performers taking the mickey out of the Crocodile Dundee star.
According to the publication, celebrity roasters appearing on the special included: John Paul Young, John Blackman, Steve Vizard, Stephen Curry, Dave Lawson, Hung Le and Troy Kinne.
Paul previously said that nothing was off limits when it came to the insults that would be thrown at him during the roast.
Hoges on the hot seat: The special featured a dozen of Australia’s funniest comedians and performers taking the mickey out of the Crocodile Dundee star
‘The first thing I do when I step off the plane is an open palm slap across the face to Shane because I know all the things he’s going to have a crack at me for,’ he told The Herald Sun ahead of his arrival in Australia earlier this month.
The comment appeared to reference the controversial moment Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars.
Hogan did however say that his event at Melbourne’s Crown Casino will have ‘no malice and [is] not grubby’, in comparison to Smith’s Academy Awards theatrics.
‘I’m surviving. I’m homesick, but I’ll be back’: It comes after Hogan revealed he was planning to relocate back to Australia after many years abroad
It comes after Hogan revealed he was planning to relocate back to Australia after many years abroad.
‘I’m surviving. I’m homesick, but I’ll be back. Looking forward to the end of this stupid disease,’ he said speaking to the Today show.
In an interview with Sunrise back in May, Hogan said he was ‘desperate’ to return to Australia and leave his life in America behind.
Still calls Australia home: In an interview with Sunrise back in May, Paul said he was ‘desperate’ to return to Australia and leave his life in America behind
‘I am desperately homesick,’ he told hosts David ‘Kochie’ Koch and Natalie Barr during a video chat from his $4.5million LA mansion.
Paul lives in the once-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where a vast increase in homelessness has seen hundreds of tents line the beach’s famous boardwalk and resulted in a sharp increase in crime.
‘You’re living in the country, alongside New Zealand, that’s the light of the world,’ Paul told the presenters.
‘And I’m living in LA County, which is 10 million people and half of them have got Covid. So am I homesick? You bet your life,’ he complained.
‘Hell on earth’: Paul lives in the once-elite beachside suburb of Venice, where a vast increase in homelessness has seen hundreds of tents line the beach’s famous boardwalk and resulted in a sharp increase in crime
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