If your comment sections are full of "please roast me" — congratulations, you have one of the few audiences on the internet that is literally begging to be a customer. And yet most roast comedians monetize the way every other creator does: brand deals that dilute the persona, merch nobody wears twice, maybe a personalized video platform where you upload a clip and wait days for approval. None of that captures what your audience actually wants, which is the live experience — the real-time, back-and-forth, no-second-take roasting that made them follow you in the first place. A prerecorded roast is a postcard; a live roast is the rollercoaster.
Cheddify sells the rollercoaster. One link in your bio leads to your page, where a buyer pays as a guest in the browser — no account, no download — and connects with you live on a video call while a per-minute meter runs, or books a time slot, or sends a paid DM. You take calls on the Cheddify app; payment clears before the first insult lands; payouts go through Stripe. If you have looked at apps like Cameo and wished the format were live instead of recorded, this is that.
What roast comedians sell on Cheddify
- "Roast me" calls. The signature offer: a per-minute live call where a follower pays for the privilege of being destroyed to their face. Set a minimum duration so every call is worth picking up.
- Birthday roasts. A booked session where a friend gifts the call — the birthday victim gets conferenced in or handed the phone, and you deliver a personalized demolition. Ask for ammo in advance by message: embarrassing facts, group-chat lore, the ex nobody mentions.
- Bachelor and bachelorette party roasts. A booked 15-30 minute appearance on speakerphone at the party. One buyer pays; the whole room gets the show; your handle gets screamed at twelve new followers.
- Roast-my-anything sessions. Dating profiles, LinkedIn headshots, tattoos, home decor, their fantasy football record. If it can be shown on camera, it can be roasted.
- Written roasts by DM. A buyer sends a photo and some context; you send back a paragraph of surgical devastation at a fixed price. Easy to fulfill between calls — see how paid DMs work.
Keep it PG-13 and punching with affection: roast comedy on Cheddify is the birthday-party kind, not the leave-the-internet kind. The buyers are opting in for themselves or their friends — consent is the whole premise, and the best roast leaves everyone quoting it at brunch, not blocking you.
How to price roast calls by the minute
Entertainment creators on per-minute platforms commonly charge $2 to $5 per minute. If you are converting your first followers, $2 per minute with a 10-minute minimum makes a roast an impulse buy at $20. Comedians with a strong following commonly sit at $3; if your clips regularly go viral and demand outruns your free evenings, $4-5 per minute is fair — a 15-minute birthday roast at $5 is a $75 gift, squarely in party-splurge territory. Booked party appearances can be priced as fixed blocks at a premium. General pricing logic is in how to price your 1:1 calls.
The math on a real roast
Take a 20-minute birthday roast at $3 per minute. The buyer pays $60, plus roughly 3% card processing added on their side. Cheddify keeps 20% plus $2 per call: 80% of $60 is $48, minus $2 leaves $46 to you, paid out via Stripe. Stack a written roast DM at $25 — you keep about 77% of face price, roughly $19.25 — and a night of five calls and a few DMs clears a couple hundred dollars for doing the exact thing you already do in the comments for free.
The honest part
Cheddify brings you zero customers. There is no marketplace, no browse page, no algorithm putting your face in front of strangers — which, given your line of work, is probably for the best. Your clips are the demand engine: every viral roast video is an ad for the live version, and your link in the bio is the box office. If you have an audience that begs to be roasted, you can be charging admission this week. If you do not yet, go make the clips first — then come claim your link.