Netflix Should Roast These Celebs & Athletes Next | Mike Gunzelman
Who's next?
With pundits declaring "The Roast of Tom Brady" a huge success, the question becomes which pop culture will step up next to get destroyed in front of a live audience for a Netflix special.
The Brady roast – it had two million views within the first few hours of availability to Netflix subscribers – worked because it was allowed to work. The pendulum, which had been completely in favor of cancel culture, is swinging back towards sanity. Comedians aren't the least bit worried about dork cancel culture nerds. Kevin Hart, who had to step down as the host of the 2019 Oscars over tweets and comedy bits, was on stage Sunday night as comedians unleashed a wild barrage of jokes that would've been red meat for the cancel vultures back in 2019.
Tom Brady having the balls to be ripped Sunday should have a roast ripple effect. Which public relation teams are reaching out to Netflix?Which athletes should step up next?
Here are my top picks for Netflix's next roast:
Tiger Woods could let comedians rip on his hairline. (Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images)
TIGER WOODS
Based on his full body of work, Tiger "Plugs" Woods would be the perfect person to get roasted next.
Tiger, much like Brady, let his greatness show on the playing field and golf course. The two GOATs had plenty of fun but in a more subdued manner. They weren't Joe DiMaggio at the Copacabana.
That is, of course, until that one night when Tiger's ex-wife Elin Nordegren found out Tiger had been cheating on her with multiple women.
Imagine if Elin went up to roast him carrying a golf club? It'd be absolutely hilarious. The two are actually much more cordial these days as they continue to co-parent their children.
Never say never. Tiger has been much more visible and accessible since his $500 million Nike partnership ended, and he's been doing media runs to hawk his new ‘Sun Day Red’ brand. No better way to get attention for it than getting roasted, Tiger!
Kim Kardashian has to be one of the top roast targets for Netflix executives. (Photo by Christian Charisius/picture alliance via Getty Images)
KIM KARDASHIAN
Kim Kardashian was actually one of the roasters of Brady on Sunday night, although it didn't go too great for her as she was booed so much by the crowd that host Kevin Hart had to tell them to calm down. As far as grades went, people overwhelmingly believed that Ben Affleck was the worst, followed by Kim.
But as far as the person being roasted? Kim would be great. God knows there's plenty of roast content and one thing's for certain, everybody has something to say about the socialite who is worth over $1.5 billion.
Even Tom Brady got in some digs when it was time for his roast rebuttal at the end of the night.
KANYE WEST
Speaking of Kanye, imagine if he was roasted?
He's a bit insecure (no, really?) so they'd need plenty of distance between him and the roaster because we don't need another Will Smith vs Chris Rock situation.
But this is KANYE we're talking about.
Whether it's his unhinged rants in recent years to his relationship with Kim Kardashian to the fact that the guy literally was living out of the Atlanta Falcons Mercedes-Benz Stadium during that mess of a ‘Donda’ livestream concert, there would be plenty to rip Kanye on.
What happens if Taylor Swift showed up and got her revenge from when Kanye interrupted her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV VMAs?
Speaking of MTV, let me throw it back to 2004 and an episode of Ashton Kutcher's MTV's Punk'd where Kanye was the target of the joke and hilariously went full child-mode and started flipping out, even going as far as hopping in a getaway van. Kutcher had to chase him down saying it was a joke.
BIG TECH BROS: MARK ZUCKERBERG / ELON MUSK
Tech bros are always fun to rift on and God knows Mark Zuckerberg, who may or may not be a robot, would be an easy target.
People love seeing the ridiculously wealthy ripped like the rest of us, so Netflix wouldn't have that hard of a time convincing liberals to tune in.
Honestly, Zuck deserves to get roasted simply for going out in public and surfing while looking like THIS. One of the wealthiest people in the world with apparently no self-awareness.
Which brings in Zuckerberg's arch-nemesis and one-time cage match opponent, Elon Musk.
Some people HATE Elon Musk right now, which is EXACTLY why Netflix should have him on.
As we all know, Elon Musk (much like Donald Trump) loves to troll the unhinged parts of society, and he is due for an updated meme.
MICHAEL JORDAN
The main reason why I would want Michael Jordan to be at a roast would be out of sheer curiosity about who would show up. It would only be worth watching if Scottie Pippen was one of the roasters as there's no love lost between these two. Pippen doesn't seem like that much of a fun guy these days, and it has the possibility to turn ugly VERY quickly, which is all the more reason why we should want it to happen.
Imagine Dennis Rodman getting in on the action? Charles Barkley? It has great potential to be pretty historic, so long as it's not sponsored by a sports betting company.
And in true GOAT fashion, MJ would actually have fun with it, unlike the king of insecurity, LeBron James.
Would Michael Jordan allow Scottie Pippen at his roast? (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
WHO'S NEXT?
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