Leave it to Seth MacFarlane to host an absolutely scorching roast of David Hasselhoff. Granted, Hasselhoff presents an incredibly massive target for an unending torrent of jokes…and that’s exactly what you get here, courtesy of MacFarlance and cavalcade of C- and D-list “stars” and a couple of legitimate comedians.

They (Pamela Anderson, Whitney Cummings, Greg Giraldo, Gilbert Gottfried, George Hamilton, Hulk Hogan, Lisa Lampanelli, Jeffrey Ross, Jerry Springer) come out swinging and it really doesn’t end until an hour later when the credits roll. It’s often pretty funny and almost consistently vulgar, crude and just downright wrong. I realize that the whole point of roasts is to lovingly destroy the guest of honor, but some of this gets uncomfortable. Beyond that, a lot of the jokes feel, well, lazy. After a while, it just blurs into a stream of profanities and sexual innuendo. Actually, that’s a bit unfair to innuendos. They leave some things unsaid, unlike most of the speakers here.

This roast has its moments, but much like Hasselhoff’s career, the bright spots are few and far between. The rest of it is a bit of an ugly mess that’s a shame to witness.