The daily ten-minute show was hosted by Tom Glasson and featured Mark Humphries, Clarke Richards, Alex Lee, Jazz Twemlow and Nich Richardson.

[2] It was then renewed for another season in 2014, again as a 10-minute daily show, with the addition of ABC News 24 presenter Alex Lee, replacing Rachel Corbett.

[3] On 29 December 2014, the Australian online wing of the British national daily newspaper, The Guardian presented an exclusive end of year wrap-up episode of The Roast[4] hosted by Mark Humphries.

The collaboration with the publication was extended with the announcement on 18 March 2015 of a limited run return of the series.

where the cast and crew said which member of the show is their least favourite person, usually this is because of their working style or because of an issue they caused during production.