The jokes and insults were flying Sunday during Netflix’s live stream of “The Roast of Tom Brady,” but one comedian got a warning from the former NFL quarterback.
Jeff Ross, known as the “Roastmaster, delivered a massage joke about New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
Brady reacted by walking to the podium and telling Ross, “Don’t say that (expletive) again.”
He was the target of a verbal assault, which included jokes about his ex-wife Gisele, Deflategate, Aaron Hernandez and more. While there were times where the quarterback looked uncomfortable, it was the joke about Kraft that forced him to say something.
What did Kraft do?
In 2020, Florida prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor charge against Kraft after courts blocked their use of video that allegedly shows him paying for massage parlor sex.
The Florida 4th District Court of Appeal found last month that Jupiter police violated the rights of Kraft and the other customers when they secretly installed video cameras inside massage rooms at the spa in early 2019. The court then blocked use of the video footage at trial.
The recordings, which have not been made public, are the only known evidence the men paid for sex. It could not be immediately determined if the charges against the other men have also been dropped, but that is likely.
Kraft was charged in February 2019 in a multicounty investigation of massage parlors that included the secret installation of video cameras in the spas’ lobbies and rooms. Police said the recordings show Kraft and other men engaging in sex acts with women and paying them.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.