Democracy Dies in Darkness

All the best burns from Netflix’s Tom Brady roast

The former quarterback took the best shots Bill Belichick, Peyton Manning and his former teammates had to offer.

A toast to Bill Belichick interrupted the roast of Tom Brady ever so briefly. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Netflix)
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Comedians, former teammates, rivals and a Kardashian took their best shots at Tom Brady on Sunday night in Netflix’s “The Roast of Tom Brady,” spewing f-bombs and zingers over more than three hours at Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.

In the end, Brady proved to be “unroastable,” as he had promised during a promo for the show, but it wasn’t for a lack of trying by, among others, host Kevin Hart, Nikki Glaser, Kim Kardashian for some reason, Ben Affleck for obvious reasons, former coach Bill Belichick and former teammates Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and Randy Moss. Brady’s long NFL career offered a rich tableau of roastable nuggets — his divorce from Gisele Bündchen (and her jujitsu instructor), Spygate, Deflategate, his TB12 diet and his relationship with his friend/“body coach” Alex Guerrero (“the snake oil salesman that turned Tom into a complete weirdo,” as Edelman put it).