Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff share a smooch during the roasting of the latter.

If anyone is ripe for a roasting, it's David Hasselhoff.

But as master-of-ceremonies Seth MacFarlane says at the beginning of the David Hasselhoff roast, which airs across Canada Saturday on the Comedy Network, "How do you make jokes about a joke?"

That is the challenge as a selection of seemingly random roasters -- including Pamela Anderson, Hulk Hogan, Lisa Lampanelli, Jerry Springer, George Hamilton, Gilbert Gottfried and Greg Giraldo -- take shots at Hasselhoff, formerly of Knight Rider, Baywatch and America's Got Talent.

The 58-year-old Hasselhoff fancies himself a singer, too, and he enters the proceedings doing exactly that.

The gold standard for this current era of blue-air roasts -- which come courtesy of Comedy Central in the U.S. -- was the Anderson skewing a few years back. None of Hasselhoff's roasters really bring their A-games, but there are a few good lines.

MacFarlane describes Hasselhoff as, "A man who is a colossal hit in Germany, a country known for making rational decisions."

Hasselhoff's former Baywatch co-star Anderson says, "David, I'd really like to work with you again some day, but there are no roles for me in gay porn."

Giraldo zings Hasselhoff by saying, "You're such a drunk, when alcohol does its taxes, it lists you as a dependent."

Notably, perhaps the best line is directed at MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy. In an attempt to "defend" MacFarlane, Gottfried says, "Take it easy on Seth. It's gotta be hard for him to do a roast, because The Simpsons hasn't done it yet."

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