Roasting is all about who can get the most rise out of the other person. You deal with getting roasted by laughing along with it( making fun of it yourself) and then quickly snapping a joke onto them. The person who wins the roast is the person who reacts the least to the other person. When a person reacts they tense up, get angry, get sad but don't show it and this reduces ones ability for a witty comeback. Rap battles are very similar to roasts. The one who reacts and loses their wittiness loses the roast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onWuYbml6Z8 Men bond with one another by joking about each other. Women bond with each other by complementing one another. So if you want guy friends get used to making fun of each other. They don't mean it in a bad way they just want you to roast them back and slowly bond with you over time.