Comedic legend Jay Leno praises former NFL star Tom Brady for handling the jokes thrown his way during his Netflix roast, highlighting a standout performance by Nikki Glaser. Despite the backlash faced by Kim Kardashian, Leno defends her as a nice person.
Legendary comedian Jay Leno has lauded NFL great Tom Brady for his sportsmanship, not on the football field but during his Netflix roast. In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Leno shared his candid impressions on "GROAT: The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady."
"I thought Tom Brady was a good sport, considering how people just roasted him," Leno remarked. "He's not a comic. Look, it's a jock event. It's all jocks. I mean, usually that's done in the back room of a big restaurant, and it gets really bawdy, and the fact that it's on TV, it's probably not to everybody's taste, but you're going to their space. They're not coming into ours. But I thought it was fun."
Despite big names like Kevin Hart and Jeff Ross taking the stage, Leno singled out Nikki Glaser as a standout comedian who left him in stitches. "As long as it's funny, it's good," Leno said of the public's perception of comedy today. "Nikki Glaser killed me. She was really funny. A lot of people might say it's inappropriate, but if it's really funny, it makes it OK."
Leno defended Kim Kardashian, who faced boos during her turn at roasting Brady. "I like Kim," Leno said. "She's a nice person. She's a lawyer. How many people have that much money and go to law school, really? I give her a lot of — I'm the one that named her [daughter] North. I did. Did you know that? Yeah, on 'The Tonight Show.' She was like, 'Ooh, I like that.'"
Netflix reportedly edited out the boos heard in the livestream during Kardashian's performance. "They do sometimes edit things, so it wasn't unheard of. Kim was happy to be there and was a really good sport about it all," a source told Fox News Digital.
While Leno admits to not being a fan of roasts, he understands why Brady agreed to participate. "It's not something I do, but it's a different kind of comedy and it's fine!" Leno said.
Leno was joined by his wife, Mavis Leno, for his red carpet appearance. The couple presented the inaugural Mavis Leno Award for Global Women's Rights at the Feminist Majority Foundation's 16th Annual Global Women's Rights Awards & Gala.
Despite the controversy surrounding certain performances, Leno believes that comedy should be judged solely on its humor. "As long as it's funny, it's good," he reiterated. "If it's not funny, then it's not good, no matter how much money you make."
