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Tom Brady took issue with a joke about Robert Kraft during Netflix’s | |
‘The Greatest Roast of All Time’ | |
By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN | |
Updated: | |
9:33 AM EDT, Mon May 6, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
took some major hits by his former teammates, comedians and even Kim | |
Kardashian during Netflix’s “The Greatest Roast of All Time” on | |
Sunday. | |
The “GROAT” special was hosted by Kevin Hart and livestreamed on | |
Netflix. The former NFL quarterback was roasted about his divorce from | |
Gisele Bündchen, his appearance, his two retirements, and his , among | |
many other sore topics. | |
Comedian and notorious “Roastmaster General” Jeff Ross served as a | |
producer and kicked off the event, quipping Brady is an example to | |
future generations that “if you work hard, eat right, film the other | |
team’s practices, deflate the balls and have the NFL make new rules | |
just for you, then you, too, can be the third most famous guy in a .” | |
At one point, Ross joked that as a rookie with the Patriots, Brady said | |
to team owner Robert Kraft, “‘I’m the best decision your | |
organization has ever made. Would you like a massage?’” It was an | |
apparent reference to Kraft’s arrest on charges of solicitation of | |
prostitution at a in 2019. The charges were later . | |
Brady, who took most of the joking in stride, took issue with that one. | |
He got up from his seat and told Ross, “Don’t say that s— | |
again,” in a comment picked up by the microphone. | |
Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Randy Moss and Drew Bledsoe, who all | |
played with Brady throughout his career, and former New England | |
Patriots coach Bill Belichick took turns roasting the MVP. Peyton | |
Manning also appeared. | |
Gronkowski talked about how “psyched” he was to have both Brady and | |
Belichick together, saying, “everyone thinks you guys hate each other | |
but I saw it firsthand, you two are exactly alike. You’re both | |
hardasses that hate fun.” | |
Brady’s rebuttal | |
In a surprise appearance, Kardashian took to the dais to tease Brady | |
about the two briefly dated last year. | |
“I’d never say if we did or not, I’d just release the tape,” | |
she said, referring to many inspired by scenes in her life. | |
Boston-native and Brady fan Ben Affleck revealed that while the two | |
were filming a Super Bowl spot, Brady asked the actor and director to | |
look at his social media comments. | |
“It was the most toxic thing that I have ever experienced – and | |
that’s saying something,” Affleck joked. | |
“That doesn’t make you a fan,” he said to Brady’s trolls. | |
“That makes you a b—.” | |
Will Ferrell appeared as his “Anchorman” character Ron Burgundy, | |
calling Brady a “true Patriot until he was not, of course,” and | |
joking it took Bündchen “13 years to learn what we all know: Tom is | |
boring.” | |
Brady and Bündchen’s divorce was fodder for many bits throughout the | |
night, with Brady frequently shown sipping his beverage whenever it was | |
mentioned. The former couple jointly in October 2022 they were parting | |
ways. | |
Comedians Bert Kreischer, Tom Segura, Nikki Glaser, Andrew Schulz, Tony | |
Hinchcliffe and Sam Jay had fun taking their shots, with Glaser joking | |
that Brady was “the best to ever play for too long.” | |
Brady may have seen certain defeat on Sunday but his decadeslong NFL | |
career is nothing short of remarkable. | |
Over the course of his 23 years as the league’s leading quarterback, | |
Brady won seven Super Rings – six with the Patriots and one with the | |
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He is also a five-time Super Bowl MVP and won | |
three NFL MVP awards. | |
He first announced his retirement in February 2022. He ended up | |
reversing his decision and returned to the field for one more season | |
with the Bucs before officially retiring last year. | |
At the end of the roast, Brady finally had the chance to defend | |
himself, saying people had asked him why he agreed to do the event. | |
“It’s simple,” Brady said. “I can take all the hits. I would | |
have done this earlier but I’ve been too busy winning | |
championships.” | |
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