- How is this different from other roast generators?
- Two things. First, the templates are segmented by relationship — coworker roasts are work-life specific and would land in a Slack channel, sibling roasts pull from shared-childhood territory only family gets to use, partner roasts are domestic and intimate, self-roasts can be sharper than the others. The category isn't a label — it's the entire bank. Second, the content rules are enforced at the template level: no body-shaming, no racial or cultural digs, no comments on physical appearance, no mental-health jokes, no targeting actual relationships. The roasts are clever, not cruel. They pass what we call the Thanksgiving aloud test: would you say this in front of grandma?
- What's the difference between Mild, Medium, and Spicy?
- Mild is the kind of dig you can text someone you love without needing a heart-react afterward. Medium has more teeth — clever, pointed, but obviously affectionate. Spicy is the loosest — sharper edges, more confident punchlines — but still landing on the playful side of the line. None of them cross into cruel. The whole bank was written with the same constraint: would you say this out loud at a Thanksgiving table where everyone likes each other? If not, it didn't go in.
- Are these AI-generated?
- No. AI roasts collapse to the same generic mean ("you're so basic you order pumpkin spice in July") because every model is trained on the same corpus. The templates here are written by hand and audited against a banned-list (no body-shaming, no race/ethnicity, no appearance, no mental-health, no real-relationship targeting). The widget rolls from the bank with slot fills (`{name}`, `{hobby}`, `{quality}`), so the surface text varies — but the underlying line stays sharp. No API call, no waiting, no token cost.
- Why can't I roast someone about their body or appearance?
- Two reasons. One, a generator can't tell you anything specific or accurate about the target's body — so any line on that subject is a stereotype, and stereotypes are lazy comedy. Two, body and appearance jokes are exactly the kind of roast that gets you uninvited from Thanksgiving, which is the entire reason this tool exists. Self-deprecating jokes about your own body are obviously fine in person — they're just not what a template generator should be putting in your mouth about somebody else.
- Can I use this for a best-man speech or a wedding roast?
- Yes. Pick "friend" and start at Medium intensity. The templates are designed to be the seed — copy a few that fit and edit them with specifics about the actual person. A great roast at a wedding is 80% specifics ("the time you tried to assemble the IKEA dresser without instructions and ended up with a confused chair") and 20% structure. The structure is what we hand you. The specifics are why people will quote it.
- Is the name field saved anywhere?
- No. The whole tool runs in your browser. There's no account, no log, no upload. The name you type stays on your device, gets stitched into the templates locally, and disappears when you close the tab.
- Can I roast myself harder than I'd roast a friend?
- Yes — and the Self bank is tuned accordingly. The same person is author and target, so the constraint shifts: the only person being made fun of is the one writing it. You'll still find no body-shaming and no real-relationship targeting (some lines never get funnier), but the Spicy tier for Self has more teeth than the Spicy tier for, say, a coworker — where the asymmetry of who-can-say-what at work changes the math.
