1.   As he grew older, Berle appeared as the master of ceremonies at celebrity roasts.

2.   Fedorko said the newspaper had taken his comments out of context because they were made at the equivalent of a celebrity roast.

3.   She decided to volunteer at the clinic after it approached her husband about submitting to a fund-raising celebrity roast.

4.   The chapter on his arch-nemesis, Gary McCord, is the stuff of celebrity roasts.

5.   Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who often attended celebrity roasts with Berle, said fellow comics would tease their elder colleague for stealing their jokes.

6.   Family and friends said farewell to Milton Berle in a memorial service Monday that at times took on the tone of an impromptu celebrity roast.