Tom Brady agreed to be the subject of a celebrity roast in a Netflix special earlier this month. And while Brady was glad to be on the receiving end of the jokes personally, it sounds like he didn’t consider how the roast would impact his family, especially his children.
During a recent episode of The Pivot podcast, Tom Brady admitted that while he was able to take the jokes like a champ during the roast, he certainly was not a fan of the way that it impacted his kids.
“I loved when the jokes were about me, I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way it affected my kids,” Brady told hosts Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and Channing Crowder. “It’s the hardest part about — 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. It makes you in some ways a better parent, going through it, because sometimes you’re naive, you don’t know, or you get a little like, oh [shoot].”
Brady seemed to conclude that he made a mistake by agreeing to participate in the roast.
“Like I said, when I signed up for that, I love when people are making fun of me,” Brady added. “I wanted to do the roast because the guy (legendary roast comic) Jeff Ross became someone that I knew, you don’t see the full picture all the time. I think it’s a good lesson for me as a parent. I’m going to be a better parent as I go forward because of it, and at the same time I’m happy everyone who was there had a lot of fun.”
Obviously, it’s pretty awful news that the roast impacted his family this way, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media.
Dear Tom
Did you not watch any of the others that preceded you? What did you think was going to happen? If you feel that bad about, donate your producer fees to someone like the @SophiaAcademyRI https://t.co/hKRxgG36wa
— Kevin Hively (@kdhively) May 15, 2024
Hey Tom: you seriously didn’t think about how a roast would affect your kids? Hmmm. https://t.co/PFzgJyFVZk
— Joe Yasharoff (@JYash) May 15, 2024
Local man upset after learning what happens at a roast. https://t.co/IibvpEyyfD
— 🦉⚽️Mike Vamosi⚾️👑 🏳️🌈 (@MikeVmos) May 15, 2024
Can we all just agree Tom Brady clearly didn’t know what a roast was when he signed up for it?
Michael Scott energy here. https://t.co/jfkXvM7QHy
— Adam Spencer (@AdamSpencer4) May 15, 2024
So tell them to pull it and give back the money.. the only joke he was uncomfortable with was Kraft getting a massage.. https://t.co/EYtr9BVAUV
— Lawdog Sports (@lawdogsports) May 15, 2024
Brady’s kids were off limits but that clearly didn’t extend to the mothers of his kids. Probably should’ve game-planned for that.
“We only roast the ones we love.” @realjeffreyross https://t.co/xX1xPxM61l
— Marc Isenberg (@marcisenberg) May 15, 2024
He should have thought about this before he agreed to do the roast. https://t.co/ikjRSrim05
— Nate Weiser (@nweiser09) May 15, 2024
It’s clear that if he could do it all over again, he would choose not to do the roast.
[The Pivot Podcast on YouTube]
