Two years after Kevin Hart delivered a savage set of jokes at Tom Brady’s expense in a no-limits comedy roast, the seven-time Super Bowl winner made it clear on Sunday night that he hadn’t let it slide, firing back with a blistering roast of his own.
Brady arrived at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles for Netflix’s Roast of Kevin Hart and immediately signaled he wasn’t there to play nice, using the moment to settle the score after the shots taken at him back in 2024.
Within moments of the show getting underway, Brady crept up behind Hart on stage and cut across the host’s opening, turning the introduction into a surprise confrontation that had the crowd roaring.
“Have you even left the Forum? Or have you just been here screaming into that mic the last two years, waiting for daddy to come home? Well, unlike your real dad, I actually showed up,” Brady quipped.
He then leaned into jokes about Hart’s height, pulling out a child-sized New York Knicks jersey and handing it over—an extra twist after Hart’s Philadelphia 76ers were swept by the Knicks just hours before the roast.
“That’s newborn size,” Brady explained. “Alright, sit down. Hobbit.”
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Brady kept piling it on, boasting, “I won five Super Bowl MVP awards. Kevin, you’re the third most famous person in Jumanji,” as the arena erupted.
Still, the pushback wasn’t exactly unexpected. Hart’s 2024 takedown of Brady had been widely labeled “really mean,” even drawing that description from Roastmaster General Jeff Ross.
That earlier event pulled in nearly two million viewers on opening night and included Hart dropping “f**k you” at Brady no fewer than seven times.
And Hart hadn’t kept it gentle. He went after everything from Brady’s divorce from Gisele Bündchen to the tension surrounding his relationship with Bill Belichick, treating nothing as off-limits.
The jokes landed so heavily that Brady later said he’d never volunteer for another roast, explaining that some of the material hit home in a way that affected his kids.
“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,” he said.
Before Sunday’s show, Ross suggested the night would deliver payback, telling the star, “The swords are out. This is gonna be no holds barred.”