Kim Kardashian’s Unexpected Booing at Tom Brady’s Roast Was Partly Debunked By This Comedian
Though everyone knows that emotions run high in a roast, with some people getting offended while others revel in laughter, there was one thing we surely weren’t expecting from Tom Brady‘s Netflix roast earlier this month: Kim Kardashian getting booed. And sure, many viewers weren’t exactly sure why she attended, after all she’s far from being a comedian, but booing? Talk about unexpected.
At the time, the internet speculated why Kardashian had such an unfriendly welcome. Of course, the one prevailing theory was that several Swifties might’ve been in the crowd. A few weeks earlier, in April, Taylor Swift released her new album The Tortured Poets Department, and one song, “thanK you aIMee,” was widely believed to be about Kardashian.
But, according to one of the biggest comedians that night Nikki Glaser, fans are making it all up.
“It wasn’t Swiftie-meditated,” Glaser said in a recent episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, per Page Six. “I do have that on good information that it was not based on that. Because I was like, this doesn’t feel like a huge Swiftie crowd, but it didn’t feel like that was the vibe in the room.”
Instead, Glaser said the booing began with a “wild guy who’s a comedian” with a “reputation for just starting s–.”
“Apparently, he started the boo as just, like, a joke,” Glaser explained. “He just had too many drinks or something, and he’s not affiliated with Swifties or anything [and] just felt like saying a boo into the air, and apparently everyone was so riled up,”
“I was so glad to learn it was not Swiftie-meditated,” Glaser added.
In another post-roast confession, Brady himself recently opened up about not being fully aware of the repercussions of the Netflix special. “I didn’t like the way they affected my kids,” the former NFL star said on The Pivot Podcast. “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.”
For Glaser, that reaction might’ve been a tad too naïve. “It’s impossible to me that he didn’t consider what could have happened because there’s roast footage out there that you can watch and go, ‘They’re gonna go this hard,’” she told the Today Show, per Us Weekly.
“But then, there’s a part of me that thinks that Tom Brady, especially given his career and how much people love him, no one’s ever said a bad thing to him in the past 30 years, so he doesn’t know what anyone’s capable of going there,” she added.
Looks like Glaser’s giving a masterclass is setting the record straight.
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