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Then why divulge that Brady's kids were declared off limits?None of the roast comedians are going to admit that there was an agreement not to go after Kraft. They would lose face.
I’ll have to watch the interview again. I don’t recall her saying they were officially declared off limits. I thought she said she had a conscience and thus didn’t go after his kids.
Just watched the clip. She did say they collectively agreed not to go after the kids. I think as a roast comedian, you can defend that position and not lose cred because, hey, they are kids. But if they admitted that they agreed to make the old, pervy white guy (who committed a crime) off limits in exchange for a paycheck and massive exposure, yeah, they’d lose face.
Well, I have to amend the above. In that interview Nikki explains that she consciously decided not to go after Kraft because Tom views him as a father figure, and that Ross was concerned afterwards that he went too far with it. That seems super lame to me coming from a bombastic roast comic. I still think she’s trying to cover for an arranged agreement, but she’s apparently acknowledging that Kraft was off limits for her. An admittedly weird take given the Aaron Hernandez jokes, a point that Neslon made previously.
Yes, there were off-limits topics in the supposedly no-holds-barred Tom Brady roast
If the goal was to generate maximum attention, the Tom Brady roast has been a success.

One of the big questions relates to the topics that weren’t included. Brady shut down jokes from Jeff Ross about Patriots owner Robert Kraft and the massage incident from five years ago. Appearing Monday on Howard Stern’s show, Nikki Glaser said she believes Brady’s reaction was real — and that she was surprised Ross made the joke, because Brady views Kraft as a “dad figure.”
She said that, after the event, Ross was concerned that he went too far with the joke.
“We have consciences about these things,” Glaser said. "[Brady] had to do it performatively for Robert, I’m sure. But I’m sure it’s not an issue that Jeff is gonna hear about today or anything like that.”
Glaser also confirmed that kids were off limits during the supposedly no-holds-barred event.
“We all collectively just decided not to involve his kids too much in anything, because they didn’t ask for that,” Glaser said. “So any kind of reference to anything with that, we left off the table. So I couldn’t say, you know, ‘Tom, hopefully we make out at the after party. You can pretend I’m your son.’ . . . I even was thinking about making a joke referencing the massage parlor thing, and then even when it was floated that he might be there I was like, I couldn’t possibly do that with that man in the room. Like, I just feel like he’s so powerful and such like a grandpa.”