Tom Brady was roasted live in front of a packed Los Angeles Forum and millions more watching on Netflix. ‘The Roast of Tom Brady’ featured many of Brady’s former teammates as well as nationally known comedians and was hosted by Kevin Hart.
Drew Bledsoe, Julian Edleman, Rob Gronkowski and Randy Moss were some of the former teammates who appeared on the show. Brady’s longtime head coach Bill Belichick was there as well as Patriots owner Robert Kraft who sat in the crowd.
The Roastmaster General himself, Jeff Ross, was on hand along with professional comedians Nikki Glaser, Tony Hinchcliffe, Andrew Schulz, Sam Jay and others. While Brady received rave reviews for his set and being willing to do this in the first place, Glaser and Hinchcliffe are receiving many of the compliments following what was a hilarious, true roast, complete with divorce jokes and plenty of topics one would expect such as ‘Deflategate’ and who was most responsible for the Patriots dynasty.
Many in sports media weighed in on the happenings:
