Two Comedians & Scott Hall Himself Comment On Roast Incident (Video)
Comedian Ryan Maher was in attendance at the now infamous Iron Sheik roast and has posted a blog entry about what happened. According to Maher, comedian Jimmy Graham made the following joke: "When the Iron Sheik got pulled over and arrested on the Jersey Turnpike his career fell harder and faster then Owen Hart." That prompted Scott Hall to go after him. Check out Maher's full blog entry at https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=140509308&blogID=440258852
Jimmy Graham, the comedian who told the Owen Hart joke at the Iron Sheik roast which led to Scott Hall attacking him, posted the following on his MySpace page about the incident. "Last night while roasting the legendary Iron Sheik, I told a fairly off color joke. I'll let you be the judge! I said, 'After the Sheik and Hacksaw Jim got caught sniffing coke in the parking lot his career fell faster than Owen Heart' This didn't go over so well! Scott Hall otherwise known as Razor Ramone rushed the stage, threw the podium and grabbed me by the throat. He jammed me into the wall, the whole time I was smiling (although I wasn't sure if it was schtick or not). Who am I kidding I pooped myself! My good buddy King Kong Bundy came to the rescue, along with several security guards and pulled the drunken bohemoth off of me! I had some fans there to see me tear the sheik up and they were screaming from the audience to run roundboy run! Even my buddy Scotty Schwartz (Flick from A christmas Story) was trying to help get the beast off of me. About 10 minutes later the cops showed up and hauled Ramone away after tazoring him outside the lobby of the Crowne Plaza. The whole thing will be on DVD and I'm sure youtube. I just want to say the joke was pure evil but I was paid to write a ROAST! I loved Owen Heart as a wrestler and a man. I think he would have laughed!"
Scott Hall released a statement via YouTube (taped yesterday at the Legends of Wrestling convention) about his actions at the Iron Sheik comedy roast in which a comedian made a tasteless joke regarding the late Owen Hart, causing Hall to attack him. You can see the video statement at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gujPGadBUs Also, two more videos of Scott Hall at the Iron Sheik roast have turned up online. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeBvwePB9VU), Hall is escorted out of the room by Jim Powers & security. Kevin Sullivan then gets on the mic trying to get the roast back on track. In the fourth video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qy99ya91r4), security removes Hall from the venue — after coming back again.