Kevin Hart Sympathizes with Tom Brady's Roast Regrets but Feels the Divorce Jokes Were 'Necessary'

The comedian and actor spoke about Brady's bashing over his divorce on the comedy special in a new interview

Kevin Hart wouldn’t change his approach to Tom Brady's recent Roast special — despite how the former football star feels about it.

The comedian and actor, 45, shared his sympathies with Brady, 46, over his regret in taking part in Netflix's The Greatest Roast of All Time and how it impacted his family in a new interview, while insisting that Brady star's treatment on the special was “necessary.”

Hart — who was the first to take aim at Brady in the May special, including joking about his divorce from Gisele Bündchen — told Bleacher Report: “When he says he regretted doing it … I think what he’s referring to is saying, ‘I could have tapered it a little differently, having a conversation pre-, of like, ‘Guys, let’s go and do this, but let’s not touch this."

“The idea of going all in and just saying, ‘I don’t care, because I know the world would love to see me being on the receiving end of s—,’ … I think it was that,” he explained of Brady's attitude afterward. “But what it did for comedy and our climate of sensitivity, I think was necessary and valuable.”

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Hart said that he can “see where [Brady’s] coming from” considering the current social climate “and just him wanting to protect, the idea of family and the conversation attached to that.”

“... I know his response and saying something about it was a result of possibly that," guessed Hart. "But that [special] made people comfortable with a joke being a joke.”

He concluded that the experience was a “learning lesson” for Brady.

Brady appeared as the guest of honor in Netflix’s hit live special The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady on May 5. For the majority of the special, he happily took insults from his friends and former teammates, including Julian Edelman, Rob Gronkowski, Nikki Glaser and Kim Kardashian.

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When it came to Hart, who kicked off the show, the actor received shocked reactions from the crowd as he roasted Brady over his divorce from ex-wife Bündchen, 44, while also poking fun at Bündchen's new boyfriend, her karate coach Joaquim Valente.

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Shortly after the special, Brady came out and said he regretted the special, telling The Pivot podcast, “I loved when the jokes were about me. I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way that it affected my kids,” referring to his two children Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 11, shared with Bündchen.

“I wouldn’t do that again because of the way it affected actually the people I care about the most in the world,” he added.

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