Geier Roast a Slow Burn

}Dubbed “Geier on the Fire,” last week’s roast of longtime IPG boss Phil Geier featured a string of witty-yet-soft gibes, cigar-chomping impressions and embarrassing anecdotes. The guest of honor, looking unusually comfortable in front of a microphone, even managed to get in a few choice retorts himself. Still, the comments turned out to be so tame that Geier was busy softening his own rebuttal while others spoke.

Held at Cipriani’s 42nd Street, a cavernous former bank, the event attracted an estimated crowd of 500 that included former and current IPG players, such as Frank Lowe, Lee Garfinkel and Stone Roberts as well as Donny Deutsch, Allen Rosenshine and Phil Joanou.