New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce (Presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment)
The Roast of Tom Brady was one of the NFL’s biggest off-field cultural events so far this year. Nikki Glaser stole the show by taking a flamethrower to everyone on stage.
Gronk was a target. Tom Brady’s exes were targets. Nobody was spared and aside from Tom Brady briefly threatening Roast Master Jeffrey Ross over a Robert Kraft joke, everyone seemed to take the roast in stride and days later it is still being talked about.
The Kelce brothers discussed the Roast of Tom Brady on the latest episode of New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce (Presented by Wave Sports + Entertainment) and Jason Kelce simply does not understand why anyone would ever subject themselves to such brutal treatment. Jason’s hot take is basically that roasts are pointless and making jokes about families being destroyed is ridiculous… He’s not wrong, or is he?
A shorter clip was shared to TikTok as well with just the portion on the Roast of Tom Brady:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLX3BDRA/
Jason Kelce’s stance on the Tom Brady Roast is both (1) valid and (2) pretty hilarious. The man who went shirtless in a suite during the NFL Playoffs, is nicknamed ‘Big Yeti’, and passed out on the bar the night he met his wife says he ‘might take himself too seriously’ to understand the appeal of a roast.
Do you get brutally exposed at a roast? Sure. Does Jason Kelce have skeletons in his closet that would come out in a roast? Honestly, it doesn’t seem that way. He is a very public figure and we already seem to know everything there is to know about him because he lives his life pretty openly to the public so it would be lots of ‘guys being dudes’ jokes about overeating and drinking and going too hard.
The flip side of the roast experience I think Jason Kelce is missing in this Tom Brady discussion is the roasters have to actually be funny. I was at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump back in 2011 when it was filmed at Hammerstein Ballroom. I dug deep and these are the only pics I could still find from that night:
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Something that I’ll never forget about that night is Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino getting mercilessly booed off stage by the people sitting in the upper levels. He got absolutely DESTROYED by the crowd because his jokes were weak and unfunny.
Roasts work when the roasters are hilarious and I think Jason Kelce’s stance of not wanting to get up in front a crowd and destroyed is perfectly valid but I have a feeling the collection of roasters that would be assembled to roast him would be incredible even if it was behind closed doors and not for a Netflix special.