Tom Brady had particular motivation for agreeing to take part in final yr’s bawdy Netflix dwell roast, in keeping with one of many roast’s hosts.
Comic Jeff Ross, who cohosted Might 2024’s Roast of Tom Brady alongside Kevin Hart, opened up throughout a Wednesday, June 26, look on The Howard Stern Show about how the entire thing got here to be.
“I had seen him taking a look at my Instagram on Tremendous Bowl Sunday a couple of years in the past,” Ross, 59, defined. “I used to be like, ‘Why the f*** is Tom Brady on my Instagram?’ I’m going, ‘Oh, I had some jokes up. Perhaps that’s how he unwinds earlier than a giant sport.’ And he f***ing wins!”
Primarily based on the timeline, Brady, 47, was taking a look at Ross’ social media hours earlier than profitable Tremendous Bowl LV in 2021 as quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“I hit him the following day on Instagram going, ‘Dude, it’s time for a roast. You clearly love this s***,’” Ross continued. “He writes me again and we begin speaking and it seems my agent and his agent, they work collectively. And we put a deal collectively to do a roast. Netflix is like, ‘Certain!’”
Issues have been all set, in keeping with Ross, however then Brady had a change of coronary heart professionally.
“He agreed and he retired and we have been like, ‘Let’s go! Now’s our likelihood.’ Then he unretired,” Ross stated. “I used to be like, ‘No, we received to attend till he’s finished enjoying. It’s a bit of extra enjoyable.’”
Brady introduced his retirement from the NFL in February 2022 however walked again his choice and returned for yet another season with the Buccaneers. He formally introduced he was retiring for good in February 2023.
Jeff Ross attends the Netflix dwell comedy occasion “The Biggest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady” on the Kia Discussion board in Inglewood, California, on Might 5, 2024. Michael Tran / AFP
Based on Ross, Brady’s private life additionally received in the way in which of the roast getting off the bottom.
“Then he was going by a divorce and I’m like, ‘Let’s await that,’” Ross stated.
Brady and his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen, confirmed their cut up in October 2022 after 13 years of marriage.
When the day of the roast lastly got here in Might 2024, Ross recalled asking Brady, “Why are you doing this?”
“He goes, ‘I like this sort of humor. Persons are too snowflaky proper now,’” Brady responded, in keeping with Ross.
Ross additionally recalled getting a textual content from Brady on the day of the roast studying: “No concern. That is what we do.”
Netflix’s first dwell roast featured Brady getting raked over the coals by comedians like Nikki Glaser and Andrew Schulz, celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Ben Affleck and former New England Patriots teammates Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman.
“He ought to get a Nobel Peace Prize for saying sure to that,” Ross stated of Brady. “He took the hit so we may all overlook our issues for 3 hours.”