--- title: Demi Moore Came to Bruce Willis's Roast With All the Burns description: For Comedy Central's roast of Bruce Willis, aired on Sunday night, the actor's ex-wife Demi Moore showed up with all the searing jokes. canonical: https://time.com/5339717/demi-moore-bruce-willis-roast/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-16T16:41:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:52.895Z og:title: Demi Moore Came to Bruce Willis's Roast With All the Burns og:description: Willis's Comedy Central roast was filled with famous friends and candid jokes og:url: https://time.com/5339717/demi-moore-bruce-willis-roast/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf966ffba8fd8837e/6989357686f68e053d6e9a94/demi-moore-roast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3031 og:image:height: 1705 og:image:alt: Comedy Central Roast Of Bruce Willis - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Demi Moore Came to Bruce Willis's Roast With All the Burns twitter:description: Willis's Comedy Central roast was filled with famous friends and candid jokes twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf966ffba8fd8837e/6989357686f68e053d6e9a94/demi-moore-roast.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Demi Moore Arrived at Bruce Willis's Roast With All the Burns > Sponsored content. 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Brown—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 16, 2018 4:41 PM UTC Warning: don’t offer yourself up to be the subject of a [Comedy Central roast](http://time.com/3674748/justin-bieber-comedy-central-roast-jokes/) unless you’re really ready to feel the burns. [Bruce Willis](http://time.com/5002211/bruce-willis-halloween-costume/) experienced the full fire of the comedy roast when his special [aired](http://www.cc.com/roasts), featuring appearances from friends like [Joseph Gordon-Levitt](http://time.com/4462277/lip-sync-battles-jimmy-fallon/item/joseph-gordon-levitt/), Edward Norton and Martha Stewart to, yes, his ex-wife Demi Moore. Moore pulled no punches, lambasting the popular action star on both personal and professional terms. “I look at our marriage like _The Sixth Sense_,” she joked at one point, referencing Willis’s famous horror movie. Her punchline: “You were dead the whole time.” (Willis and Moore were married for 13 years and share three daughters. They [divorced in 2000](https://people.com/archive/thats-a-wrap-vol-54-no-19/). Willis is now married to model [Emma Heming](https://people.com/home/bruce-willis-emma-heming-house-tour/), with whom he has two daughters.) Moore had plenty more to say, too. “Bruce considered the end of our marriage his biggest failure,” she explained of their history. “Bruce, don’t be so hard on yourself, you had much bigger failures. Planet Hollywood, Hudson Hawk… campaigning for [Michael Dukakis](http://time.com/4493402/see-the-top-10-political-debate-flubs/item/michael-dukakis-1988/), turning down Clooney’s role in _Ocean’s Eleven_ to focus on playing the harmonica.” But Willis, in his own monologue, had a comeback — of sorts. “Joseph \[Gordon-Levitt\] played a younger me in _Looper_. He couldn’t pull it off,” Willis joked about the younger actor. “There is one actor who successfully played me. 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