Somehow, we’re still talking about the Tom Brady roast fallout

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?