The Roast of Tom Brady on Netflix didn’t hold back much in the way of jokes, with ribald ridicule of everything from Gronk’s perceived puerility to Kim Kardashian and her relationship with Kanye West to Tom’s public divorce with his ex-wife Gisele Bundchen. Though the Roast pulled in massive ratings, being the most watched show on the streaming service on the week it aired (May 6th) and pulling in 18.6 million views overall, Tom Brady regrets the direction in which some of the jokes went, particularly the ones which ripped into his family.
“I liked when the jokes were about me,” Brady told The Pivot Podcast shortly after The Greatest Roast of All Time aired. “I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way they affected my kids. It’s the hardest part about … like the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and then all of a sudden you realize I wouldn’t do that again because of the way that it affected actually the people that I care about the most in the world.”
Comedian Kevin hart, who hosted the event, sympathizes with Tom Brady’s Roast regrets, but also believes that some of the jokes which offended Tom, namely the ones about he and his ex-wife Gisele’s divorce, were necessary evils.
“When he says he regretted doing it … I think what he’s referring to is saying, ‘I could have tapered it a little differently, having a conversation pre-, of like, ‘Guys, let’s go and do this, but let’s not touch this,” Hart told Taylor Rooks of The Bleacher Report on the Taylor Rooks X podcast.
“The idea of going all in and just saying, ‘I don’t care, because I know the world would love to see me being on the receiving end of s—,’ … I think it was that. But what it did for comedy and our climate of sensitivity, I think was necessary and valuable.”
Hart added that he can “see where [Brady’s] coming from” and “just him wanting to protect, the idea of family and the conversation attached to that” but that overall the “[special] made people comfortable with a joke being a joke,” something which Hart believes is lacking in today’s social climate.
What do you think of the fact that Kevin Hart sides with Tom Brady’s Roast regrets but thinks divorce and family jokes were ‘necessary’ evils? Do you think the jokes on the Tom Brady Roast pertaining to his family and ex-wife Gisele Bundchen crossed the line or that all’s fair in joking on Roasts? Let us know in the comments.
