Quentin Tarantino Gets Roasted

QT with Uma and Sam

QT with former girlfriend Kathy Griffin and friend Rosario Dawson

A number of Quentin Tarantino's friends and collaborators gathered at the Hilton Hotel ballroom in Manhattan to honor him in an event organized by The Friar's Club. Over 2,000 guests were in attendance, a record for any of the roasts. The roast had been pushed back after the death of his close friend, Sally Menke.

Roasters included Uma Thurman, Kathy Griffin (they used to date!), Richard Belzer, Sarah Silverman and Edgar Wright. Kristin Chenoweth kicked off the event by singing the National Anthem. Samuel L. Jackson served as Roastmaster and referred to Tarantino as "a walking spaghetti western,"  but also thanked QT for casting him in Pulp Fiction.

Possibly the best story from the luncheon came from his muse, Uma Thurman:

"Throughout our long and glorious - and inglourious - relationship, we've had our ups and downs, but for now I'll just focus on "Kill Bill".  Deep in the desert, late one night around four a.m., for once my phone accidentally went off [during a take]. And Quentin screamed, as he does, 'Whose phone is that!? Whoever's phone that is is dead!' And I said, from the dirt pile I was half buried under, 'That was my phone, actually, so leave the crew alone.'  And he said 'You let your phone go off one more time and I'll make you regret the day you ever started acting!' And I screamed back, 'That happened a long time ago, motherf**ker!"

And the foot fetish is celebrated!

At the end of her speech, Thurman took off her heels, put wine in them, handed one to Tarantino and toasted with him.  Boom, roasted!