Dave Portnoy argues that allowing sales teams to control content in a roast is a dangerous precedent that undermines the genre.

“once you let sales dictate content it's a slippery slope”

Josh Richards believes that sponsors should not have editorial control over the content of a roast.

“I would make it very clear to the paying sponsor the jokes stay you don't control content like know what you're getting yourself into but it's a dangerous slope in that situation sometimes i get it but to [ __ ] roast like that's the problem right like when you think about roasts”