Last week, we raised this question: Why did Tom Brady agree to be roasted?
It turns out Brady is asking himself the same thing.
The roast was intended to be the first in a series called The Greatest Roast of All Time, with Brady as an executive producer for each installment. However, based on Brady’s recent comments, it seems unlikely that anyone else will agree to participate.
Appearing on The Pivot podcast, Brady admitted that he regrets doing the roast because of the impact it had on his children.
“I liked when the jokes were about me,” Brady said, via Zack Sharf of Variety.com. “I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way they affected my kids. It’s the hardest part about . . . like 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.”
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Although Brady’s kids were off-limits during the supposedly no-holds-barred event, Brady’s ex-wife reportedly was upset about some of the jokes, which affected their shared children. Additionally, Brady was teased about leaving Bridget Moynihan while she was pregnant with his oldest child.
“It makes you in some ways a better parent going through it,” Brady said. “Sometimes you’re naive. You don’t know. When I signed up for that — I love when people are making fun of me. I always said when I was going through the Deflategate stuff that I watched three things on TV: Premier League soccer, golf, and comedy shows. Every time I turned on SportsCenter it was like, are you kidding me? I just want to laugh. I wanted to do the roast because Jeff Ross became somebody I knew. But you don’t see the full picture all the time.”
Brady’s candid reflections likely deter others in his league, such as Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, or LeBron James, from participating in a similar roast. While it’s one thing for the roast’s subject to take the heat, involving current or former family members makes it uncomfortable.
Even before Brady’s recent comments, I would have bet against a second Greatest Roast of All Time. Now, it seems even more unlikely — unless the ground rules specify that only a limited range of jokes will be made at the subject’s expense.
