Tom Brady Roast on Netflix
The Brady roast was hilarious broadcast live over the weekend. Harbaugh and Woodson were in the audience for those with eagle eyes. Kevin Hart hosted and was at his best. Also appearances by Will Ferrell, Peyton Manning and Ben Affleck.
Those with virgin ears may want to skip it since no protected group is left unscathed...gays, obese, blacks, mentally challenged etc. Gronk was the butt of many jokes and Kim Kardashian makes a cameo to dispel the Brady dating rumors. Three hour running time so I watched in pieces.
Are we getting a new post about this every time someone watches it?
With all of the edits, it's a new version with every watch!
I call dibs on the weekend post. planning on watching Saturday
I have not watched yet. Was anything else edited out besides Kim Kardashian getting booed by audience as soon as she was introduced? What was she doing there if she was that thin skinned?
They kept in jokes about former teammate convicted of murder who committed suicide (?), one that Tom Brady thought went too far (?), and more but a Bronx cheer for Kim is too much?
Shameful that some went after poor Aaron Hernandez.
One for every one of Tom’s Super Bowl rings, baaaabbyyyyyy!
He's missing the 8th ring! From all the media reports of her whining about this event, TB is thanking his lucky stars that he's moved on from Gisele. If she's like this in the media, imagine how she was at home??? Don't care how hot she is....
How many have been posted? The only one I saw was "OTish - Sickest Burn of All Time?" about Eli's tweet the day after.
Surprisingly little discussion on the board about the roast IMO.
That was post #2.
But it was the first post-event post.
GroastPosts?
I'm only an hour in, and will take a few days to finish, so I'll post my thoughts about it in a new thread in a few days. Maybe a diary if I want to say it was REALLY funny.
Keith Jackson just died
Who has 3 hours to watch washed up celebs recite terrible jokes?
My thoughts too. I just don't care what celebrities have to say.
The Overton Window is shifting on celeb worship. They're rightfully getting viewed as more hunger games and less role models.
Which is very welcome news. Most celebs seem like turds. Shaq is cool, though.
Most are and even Shaq was a total turd early in his pro career..
Yeah, and I'm afraid that the modest Tom Brady--who was so appealing because of it--has given way to a somewhat feckless something. But I did enjoy the joke from the person who said give up your wife and family so that you could go back to football and have a 7-9 season? Who wouldn't jump at that opportunity? (I mean, Robert Kraft was off limits?)
I think you've probably jumped more than one shark by the time you're getting roasted by some of these people, but you gotta fill the days, too.
By who exactly? I'd wager there's still a very large portion of America and the world who follow celebrities closely, if not fully "worshipping" them. Kim Kardashian, People Magazine, TMZ, a thousand gossip blogs and websites, celebs having 100's of millions of social media followers, 100 different reality shows that follow quasi-celebs, etc. all wouldn't be a thing if there wasn't still huge celebrity worship going on.
This website/forum probably skews heavily toward older males, which is a demo you won't find too much celebrity worship in. Instead, we worship 20-year-olds who can throw footballs good, and religiously follow the whims of 16-year-olds who are trying to decide which school they want to attend.
So there.
Exactly, pointing the finger with disdain at those who 'worship celebrities' while we're all literally members of a blog devoted to following what are effectively Michigan sports celebrities seems a little awkward.
Eh, I think it is a little more nuanced than that, I may follow UM fanatically but that does not mean I worship any individual players or see them as role models because I have no idea what they are actually like off the field as human beings. Celebrities should not be role models unless you know them personally and actually know they are a good person, otherwise it is just silly in all cases.
Over half the board members in here probably have Michigan "shrines" with various players and memorabilia in them, or a basement or room completely dedicated to it. I doubt half the people who follow celebrities do the same with those celebrities.
So, if anything, our fandom is even weirder and more obsessive than the "celebrity worship" some on this thread are looking down on.
I mean following a team with great interest is still different than literally worshiping an individual or thinking of them as a role model. People's role models should be people in their actual life who are worthy of admiration, not people that you don't even know.
Meh, there's not enough comedy around these days and you can watch it in segments. The highlights are probably enough for most people. Nikki Glaser had the best set. Bledsoe probably did the best amongst the non-comedians.
Ditto.
It was comedians and football players making the jokes. Kim Kardashian did get a couple minutes, but I think she was the only "celebrity."
Hear, hear. Nothing against TB12 but these roasts, and their popularity, makes me worried for this country. We are just so dumb at this point.
Roasts have been going on for 70 years, dude. Why are you just NOW worried about how they're ruining our country? This is such a boomer comment, lol.
I guess I did. I thought it was pretty good overall but I would take issue with the word "celebs".
IMHO I thought Hart was the worst part of the night. Maybe because it's the NFL but every time a roaster was done he got up to the mic and did a slo-mo recap of what we all just heard. Yeah dude we all saw and heard what just happened.
And by celebs - I'm familiar enough with Jeff Ross and Nikki Glaser, but there were 4 other "comedians/roasters" who I have never seen or heard of before. But I'm gettin a little old and still watch SNL and most of the musical acts are people I've never heard of either.
Nobody bombed and it was a fun thing and I'll admit I get a kick out of the roasts. They seem to be a no holds barred event.
Perhaps people who have time to post on a Michigan sports blog?
I've watched about 70% of it, and it's effing hilarious. As often is the case with roasts the by far funniest sets come from the professional comedians and not the celebrity friends of the roastee. Jeff Ross was great, even Nikki Glazer killed, but my personal fav was Tony Hinchcliffe for sure. Insult comedy at its finest.
I think there were some very funny people and it was good overall, but it severely needed to be edited to cut down on run time and all the unfunny BS. Over 3 hours when most Comedy Central roasts are 1:15 or so is ridiculous. The constant 10-15 second audience applause and standing ovations would have cut maybe 30 minutes out of the broadcast. It was annoying.
The three comedians you mentioned absolutely killed it. Edelman, Schulz, and Brady were very good. Gronk and Belichick were mediocre. Randy Moss was awkward and unfunny, which is weird because he's a funny dude. Tom Segura/Bert Kreischer were painfully unfunny. Them tag-teaming a corny power-point presentation was an odd choice. Ben Affleck was terrible. Kim K and Sam Jay were meh.
Kevin Hart as a host was incredibly disappointing. Started out very funny, but after every presenter, he would just laugh and rehash their jokes and tell them how amazing and funny they were. It's a roast, the host is supposed to roast each person who presents. Instead he just kinda awkwardly retold and explained the jokes they made. Not funny, just a waste of time. He seemed like the kid who had to give a book report in class and only read the first two chapters-prepared for the beginning and then was just winging it through most of the presentation.
Well yeah that's why I've watched 70% of it, not all of it at this point. I sat down to watch it, expecting it to be a nice tight hour or so and then I had to turn it off at 11 o'clock to go to bed. I'll watch the rest of it tonight. It definitely could use an editor.
That's a good observation on Kevin Hart, but it also wasn't that surprising given he's one of those dudes who's known to crack up all the time. He can't play it straight, and it was live so there's no way to rein it in.
I think a lot of the football dudes struggled with the nature of this type of show. I'm sure all of them had had stuff written for them, but the delivery differed significantly. Edelman leaned in on it and you could tell he might have a future in entertainment (I also thought it's funny that he was the only one to make a joke about plastic surgery given that the Tom Brady that sat there looked at best like a distant cousin of the Tom Brady that was at Michigan). Gronk was all over the place. Guys like Belichick, Moss and Bledsoe were just extremely nervous about it and you could tell it didn't come easy to them.
I don't know why Kim Kardashian was there and what the point of her little bit was. Everyone else on the dais was either a football associate of Tom or a known comedian. I mean I'll be honest her being there makes me think it's more likely Tom's banging her.
As a defense to Kevin Hart, he is an extremely busy dude (as they all mentioned a bunch of times during the roast). Maybe he wasn't the best choice as host if he was going to need to prepare to roast all ~20 of the presenters. At least get him some writers to make his job easier, maybe? Or pick someone who has more time on their hands.
Edelman definitely has a future in entertainment,I'm not sure doing what, but he has the charisma. The Kim K thing was certainly weird. My guess is that the family is super powerful in Hollywood and bullied Netflix to get her on the roast, similar to how they bullied Netflix to remove the boos from her performance a few days after it aired.
Creepy Robby Craft being off limits was a big disappointment.
Tom made it so
Yeah there was a lot of stuff off limits. No jokes about any of the surprise guests, no jokes about anyone not on the dais (with a few exceptions for people who got a chance to fire back), no jokes about anyone's kids. No one joked about Jeff Ross dating an underage girl, no one joked about Kevin Hart and the Oscars.
On the other hand, too many gay jokes, a few jew jokes, too many Hernandez jokes, and I cringed a bit at the 9/11 joke, but it was fine.
The only joke that made me cringe was when the two guys (never heard of them before) compared Brady to Hitler, complete with a picture. Hitler is still too soon, and the audience thought so, too.
You’ve never heard of Bert kraisher or Tom segura? I think they have ten Netflix specials between them. Search “comedy” in Netflix and they will pop up.
I actually envy him for having never heard of Bert. He is the hackest of hack comedians. I think Segura just keeps him around since you can endlessly make fun of him and he doesnt really get it.
Best line I've heard so far (maybe 90 minutes in) was Nikki... "Bert, I really enjoy your... Joke".
No one joked about Jeff Ross dating an underage girl
Closest anyone came was "You remind me of the patient from Operation. You light up whenever you get touched by kids."
My ears are far removed from virginity and any semblance of political correctness. Even so, I found myself cringing so many times during this roast. But there were a bunch of laugh out loud moments.
I felt the same. I laughed a lot, but so much of it was really low brow, obvious, crude jokes. The whole thing felt off brand for Brady. At least based on what I've thought of as his public image so far, since I obviously don't know the guy personally.
Rollercoaster effect for me.
Best roasters were Gronk and Edelman since they ripped on his actual personality quirks instead of everyone else recycling basically the same three jokes about his public persona.
Watched the first two hours, not really my thing. Felt like everyone was just going for shock value with how offensive they could make their jokes. I suppose if I was still a kid I might find that kind of thing funny.
I get what you're saying. The only comedian that's really pulled off the overt offensiveness to me is Anthony Jeselnik.