2008 ROASTEE – STEPHEN COLBERT
Roasters

• Honorable Rahm Emanuel
• Honorable Orrin Hatch
• Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton
• Honorable Dana Perino

 

2007 ROASTEE – BOB WOODRUFF
Roasters

• Honorable Edward J. Markey
• General George W. Casey, Jr.
• Bob Woodward
• Lieutenant General John F. Sattler

2006 ROASTEE – BOB SCHIEFFER
Roasters

• Don and Deidre Imus
• Honorable Tony Snow
• Honorable Tom Daschle

2005 ROASTEE – BARBARA WALTERS
Roasters

• Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Sam Donaldson
• Honorable Karen Hughes
• Senator Mary L. Landrieu

2004 ROASTEE – BERNARD SHAW
Roasters

• Walter Cronkite
• Representative Harold E. Ford, Jr.
• Senator Lindsey O. Graham
• Dan Snyder

2003 ROASTEE – DON HEWITT
Roasters

• Senator Edward M. Kennedy
• Honorable Andrew H. Card
• Honorable Tom Ridge
• Lesley Stahl

2002 ROASTEE – TOM BROKAW
Roasters

• Senator George Allen
• Senator Tom Daschle
• Senator Chuck Hagel
• Representative Nancy Pelosi
• Art Buchwald
• Bob Schieffer

2001 ROASTEE –TONY KORNHEISER
Roasters

• Honorable Nick Calio
• Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Representative Steve Largent
• Ted Leonsis
• Michael Wilbon

2000 ROASTEE – DAN RATHER
Roasters

• Senator John Edwards
• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
• Senator Fred Thompson
• Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke

1999 ROASTEE – DON IMUS
Roasters

• Senator Pete Domenici
• Senator John Kerry
• Senator Joseph Lieberman
• Senator John McCain
• Paul Begala

1998 ROASTEE – WILLIAM SAFIRE
Roasters

• Honorable Madeleine Albright
• Senator John McCain
• Representative Rahm Emanuel
• Representative Bob Livingston
• Honorable Bert Lance

1997 ROASTEE – ANDREA MITCHELL
Roasters

• Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan
• Senator Chris Dodd
• Honorable Elizabeth Dole
• Senator Jack Kemp
• Mike McCurry

1996 ROASTEE – LESLEY STAHL
Roasters

• Governor Ann Richards
• Representative Pat Schroeder
• Mary Matalin Maureen Reagan

1995 ROASTEE – JIM LEHRER
Roasters

• Dr. Laura D'Andrea Tyson
• Senator Nancy Kassebaum
• Senator David Pryor
• Representative Henry Hyde

1994 ROASTEE – LARRY KING
Roasters

• Secretary Donna Shalala
• Representative Richard Armey
• Honorable Leon Panetta

1993 ROASTEE – TIM RUSSERT
Roasters

• Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
• Senator Bob Kerrey
• Honorable William Bennett
• Mary Matalin
• David Gergen

1992 ROASTEES – SALLY QUINN AND BEN BRADLEE
Roasters

• Senator Barry Goldwater
• Honorable John Ehrlichman
• Katharine Graham
• Art Buchwald

1991 ROASTEE – PAT BUCHANAN
Roasters

• Senator Orrin Hatch
• Senator Jay Rockefeller
• Governor Doug Wilder
• Representative Newt Gingrich
• Mark Russell

1990 ROASTEE – SAM DONALDSON
Roasters

• Senator Alan Simpson
• Budget Director Dick Darman
• Representative Charles Rangel
• The Capitol Steps

1989 ROASTEE – BOB NOVAK
Roasters

• Vice President Dan Quayle
• Speaker of the House Tom Foley
• Representative Pat Schroeder
• Senator Bob Dole
• Art Buchwald

ROAST EMCEE – MARK SHIELDS