The Roast of Tom Brady on Netflix saw some big names. Comedy vets Kevin Hart, Jeff Ross and Andrew Schulz were among those who cracked jokes about the NFL star, but for Nikki Glaser, the exposure was life-changing.
The comedian, who hosts the Golden Globes on Jan. 5, visited Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week and detailed how her stellar performance on the special impacted her career.
"It was a life-changing performance. One of those things that you’re sort of like, you just never think it’s gonna happen but everything changes after," Glaser said around the 1-minute mark.
She continued, "The next day, I was in line places and seeing my face on people’s phones. I felt like Taylor Swift for a couple of days. I felt that level [of visibility]."
Since the roast, Glaser claimed that people want her to be "mean all the time and just savage and roast them."
"It's just people coming up to me, like, 'Roast me, please.' ... They're into some weird stuff."
But Glaser called the skill an "art" doesn't come "naturally" to her since she's had to "lock into that."
"So it's usually just me being like, 'You don't want it,' and they go 'Please?' And I go, 'You're ugly' or just something just really blunt or like, 'Your wife is cheating on you,' or 'I hope you die in a fire.’ I don't know is this what you wanted?”
Now, the comedians "go-to line" is "I'm sorry, I don't roast people with special needs."
Around the 9-minute mark, Glaser shared that she's since been on a theater tour with "numerable dates." But Brady had an opposite effect post-roast and on The Pivot Podcast in May, explained why he somewhat regretted the special.
"I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun," he said around the 50-minute mark of the video below. “I didn't like the way that affected my kids, so it's the hardest part–the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and then all a sudden you realize, I wouldn't do that again because of the way that affected the people that I care about the most in the world."
