Somehow, we’re still talking about the Tom Brady roast fallout
Nikki Glaser says Tom Brady had to know what he was getting into when he signed up for his Netflix roast
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Tom Brady’s Netflix roast had some mildly remarkable aspects—it was live-streamed and three hours long, Kim Kardashian got booed, Brady objected to a Robert Kraft joke—but overall, it was not so interesting that we should still be talking about it almost two weeks later. Yet here we are, for some reason, unpacking this roast like it was the first in history. Which it obviously was not, as participant Nikki Glaser pointed out.
Glaser was asked to react to Brady’s reaction to the roast, which is that he “loved” the jokes about himself and “thought they were so fun,” but he “didn’t like the way that it affected my kids,” he admitted on The Pivot Podcast. He ultimately realized he “wouldn’t do that again because of the way that affected actually the people that I care about the most in the world.” During an appearance on Today With Hoda And Jenna (via Deadline), Glaser agreed he must regret doing The Greatest Roast Of All Time and that he “maybe he didn’t consider the backlash from his family and how it would affect them.”
Except, “Tom Brady does not do anything without doing his research and knowing exactly what he’s getting into. I think it’s kind of a thing you say after the fact, but it’s impossible to me that he didn’t consider what could’ve happened,” she added. “There’s roast footage out there that you can watch.” Duh! The most famous roasts are vicious, no-holds-barred, no-subject-off-the-table affairs. As a guy who (seemingly!) dumped his pregnant partner for a supermodel and then got dumped by the supermodel for refusing to retire, Brady had to have some expectation that his family life was going to get dragged into the roast.
Glaser’s theory is that Brady had such a golden career and was so beloved that “nobody has ever said a bad thing to him in the past 30 years. So he didn’t know that anyone was capable of going there.” The theory doesn’t exactly hold water when Brady is incredibly reviled by football fans outside of New England, endured a pretty public cheating scandal while still in the NFL, and is constantly getting dunked on for kissing his kids on the lips. Nevertheless, she “got a sense that maybe it was a little more than he had planned for”: “I think that midway through [the roast] he had decided kind on like the laughter he was going to do,” she said. “But I think at first it kind of jarred him ’cause I really don’t think he thought they were going to go there.”
That extends to Jeff Ross’ Kraft joke, which touched upon the billionaire Patriots owner’s sex trafficking scandal. When Brady got up to tell Ross to cut it out, “I thought it was maybe a joke or part of a bit that they choreographed before, but it certainly wasn’t,” Glaser shared. Another roast participant, Andrew Schulz, also confirmed the moment was unplanned “because they told us no jokes about happy endings with Bob Kraft,” Schulz said on his podcast Flagrant. (Schulz also claimed jokes about Brady’s kids were deemed off-limits leading up to the roast, per The Hollywood Reporter.) For his part, Ross has claimed Brady was “just having fun” and that Kraft loved the jab. Maybe we can stop relitigating it now?
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What I’m getting from the news lately is that somehow very good football quarterbacks all turn out to be pea-brained morons
Your comment is pea-brained and moronic.
My mom, who was in the museum biz, once gave John Elway a tour (after hours) of an exhibit, and she reported back that he was surprisingly knowledgeable. Plus, he actually wanted a tour of an exhibit!
The exhibit in question? “John Elway: A Celebration”
I hate to break it to you but I think you mom might have hooked up with John Elway
Glaser killed it.
I think we are as much talking about this still because she killed it so hard and these are her further comments on her triumph…like it’s possible this just made her a huge star (and she happens to have a special out recently)My side literally cramped I was laughing so hard
Yeah, she was the only thing worth seeing there, but she absolutely killed by any metric.
She was good, but not really a standout for me
she definitely killed it! Sam Jay as well but Glaser’s bit were fire!
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From what I can tell, too, this roast was pretty fucking tame. I want shit to get TERRIBLE out there. I want comedians to be able to say stuff that makes us wonder what the very nature of humor really is.
I followed it up by watching a supercut of Gilbert Gottfried’s most rancid roast insults, and it ain’t even the same galaxy.
I wouldn’t fuck Tom Brady with Bea Arthur’s dick
Too soon!
Who is the “we” in this headline?
Gibbering idiots.
– The A.V. Club
You know ….morons.
Where’s the Moron of Nazareth, I have an order for his release?I’m a moronI’m a moronI’m a moron and so’s my wife.
“Why are we still talking about the Tom Brady roast?” followed by a 500+ word article about the Tom Brady roast… something something Tim Robinson in a banana suit something something…
Hot dog suit
Fuck! This is why I shouldn’t spend an entire Friday morning sniffing glue. (I even had the hot dog suit in my mind while typing that. Seppuku for me I guess. Again.)
don’t use a hotdog or a banana this time?
Pretending to be too enlightened for bullshit clickbait in the midst of vomiting out precisely said form of bullshit clickbait is, sadly, the entire operating procedure of this witless contemporary version of AVClub.
Now do the commenters.
Nice one!
“Pretending to be too enlightened for bullshit clickbait in the midst of vomiting out precisely said form of bullshit clickbait is,”
While having a career that is seems to be exclusively/entirely vomited bullshit clickbait. That’s the MK Carr special.
“Maybe we can stop relitigating it now?”If only people would stop forcing them at gunpoint to keep litigating!
He sure has no sense of humor for a guy who hands out 90 calorie packs of unsalted almonds at Halloween.
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Speaking of roasting, she does not have the cleavage to pull that off.
Nothing you say or do adds value, here or IRL. Time to end it all.
I’m not done pooping yet. I’ll be done when I’m done.
I’m feeling the ex-wives gave him shit and dragged the kids as reasons. Really, there should’ve been some roast zingers prepared, for Brady as a crap husband, that the exes could put on social.
You. You are still talking about the Tom Brady roast. I am doing no such thing. One plus zero equals one. There is no “we” here.
Honey… you’re the we they’re talking about.
Just because the chip implanted in my brain forced me to click on this article does not mean I care!!
Just because the chip implanted in my brain forced me to click on this article does not mean I care!!
The genuinely creepy thing about Tom Brady is his devotion to his health guru, and AFAIK, the only person to go there in the roast was Belichick.
Okay, yesterday it was a movie review that refused to review the movie that it was a review for. Now it’s an article bemoaning articles like itself. The AV Club skinsuit y’all have been shambling around in has begun rotting, and it’s really stinking the place up.
Whatever. keep hate-reading then
That’s the plan, Mikey.
If you’re talking about the Megalopolis review that was probably the only actual film criticism this site has engaged in in years.
Turning Red was yesterday?
let’s watch the video of this crazy Baby Reindeer lady! also, it’s problematic for you to watch this video
“We’re” not. You are.
You’re here and commenting. You’re we.
Tom Brady is such a candyass.
Says the keyboard warrior who hasn’t done anything more physical than furiously click on keys whilst tears of pathetic rage and self-loathing pool and then flow profusely down they/them’s cheek.
Lol he’s a rich conservative middle aged yt dude, so yeah. Softer than cotton candy
“Tom Brady does not do anything without doing his research and knowing exactly what he’s getting into. I think it’s kind of a thing you say after the fact, but it’s impossible to me that he didn’t consider what could’ve happened,” she added.Please let’s not give Tom Brady too much credit here. Doing his research? Yeah right. The man follows around a snake oil salesman health guru. He’s a football savant and everyone thinks that translates into other aspects of life. But if you listen to him talk…there’s not much going on upstairs. I’m afraid of what’s going to happen when he gets in the broadcast booth, because he was generally the worst interview ever as a player. Basically, Brady is that toxic combination of rich, self-centered, and stupid. So I 100% believe that he gave zero thoughts at all about the content of the roast or how it would affect other people. The only question he seriously considered was how much money he was going to make. Because that’s what he cared about.
Maybe Nikki Glaser has been in a cave the last 20 years, but “no one has ever said anything bad about Tom Brady”?? JFC Nikki. Unless you never talk to anyone outside Boston and the New England area, you might have been right. The rest of NFL fans hate that idiot. I still can’t figure out how he got so good, considering he was what 199th in the draft. Oh that’s right. He cheats.
Not a Patriots fan, eh?
Aaron Rodgers “does his own research,” too.
He’s asking questions.
According to Jeff Ross, the idea of roasting Brady started with Ross noticing that Brady was viewing roast clips pre-game day. Ross was astonished that this was something Brady wanted to view pre-game, and that started the conversation. Brady was supposedly very excited to do it, and even embraced the live concept. I take this to mean that Brady just really wanted to be the center of attention again now that he isn’t on camera at least once a week for about 5 months.
Let’s keep talking about how Glaser DESTROYED his ass.
“Glaser’s theory is that Brady had such a golden career …” Yeah, the story check out.“ … and was so beloved …”(spits out drink) Wait, what?!?
Is “we” in the room with us now?
“We” is always with us.
Personally don’t understand what the appeal of being roasted by a bunch of random comedians is to begin with.I also feel like a lot of the roasters rely on the most obvious jokes. Like Giselle dating her fitness trainer was joked about by just about every one of the comedians and it felt so lazy and uninspired.
Has Tom Brady had some work done? His face has that sorta shellacked look.
He, ah, just let some of the air out…