Nikki Glaser Recounts Being Called "Some Pretty Awful Things" During Netflix's Tom Brady Roast
Nikki Glaser Recounts Being Called “Some Pretty Awful Things” During Netflix’s Tom Brady Roast
Nikki Glaser has been praised for her set during Netflix’s Tom Brady roast, but it wasn’t all smiles for her.
The comedian stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to promote her upcoming special, Someday You’ll Die. Before chatting about the HBO project, the late night host added to the compliments for Glaser, noting that she was “fantastic.”
“The rest of the roast I got called some pretty awful things,” she said. “It makes you question your life and your looks and all that stuff.” “Does it, though? Does it really?” Jimmy Kimmel asked, to which she responded, “It does sink in.”
The two went back and forth discussing if the host and comedian is also affected by some of the comments said during a roast, and he said he is a little bit sometimes. But he pointed out that Glaser gets the “dumbest” jokes about her, primarily focusing on her sex life, which seems “very outdated.”
“Yes, it does. It’s nice though because you go, ‘Oh, they’re not coming after anything else, and it’s just I’m one of the only women on here.’ In fact, I was one of two women on the day. Backstage, our room – literally everyone’s rooms have their names on them – ours just said ‘female’ on it. I literally think it was just the bathroom. Like they were just like, ‘Fine. Women.’ So, yeah, it was an intimidating thing to walk into.”
Glaser admitted she may have fed into the sex life comments a bit by “throwing myself” at Brady during the roast. Kimmel joked it’s hard not to do that with the football star, adding that he did it too when the former Patriots quarterback went on his show.
“It’s insane to look at,” she said of Brady. “He’s unreal. One of my jokes, I was gonna say he’s like AI but without the intelligence. I do think he’s smart though, so I pulled it at the last minute.”
She told the late-night host there were a few things she felt were off-limits for her coverage, like Kim Kardashian, who was also on hand to roast the athlete, and how he often kissed his children on the lips.
During an appearance on The Howard Stern Show earlier this week, Glaser also revealed some jokes she cut from her set, including jabs at his alleged plastic surgery and CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy), a degenerative disease affecting many NFL players who have experienced repeated concussions.
The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady is now streaming on Netflix.
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