Drew Bledsoe, Julian Edelman Throw Light on ‘Ultra Dark’ Jokes That Didn’t Make the Cut; “They Wanted to Do Lots of September 2001 Stuff”

It’s fair to say the ‘Greatest Roast of All Time,’ crossed some lines. But that’s typical of such roasts. However, it could’ve been much worse. According to insights from Drew Bledsoe and Julian Edelman after the roast, there were some distasteful jokes that didn’t see the light of day.

Joining Edelman on his podcast, ‘Games with Names,’ Bledsoe revealed that there were jokes that were suggested by the writer’s room that he just didn’t want to do, and others that were shot down by his family. Giving an inside look into what the writers’ room looked like when they were all discussing the jokes and throwing ideas at the wall, Bledsoe revealed,

“There were a couple of things that I just didn’t like. They wanted to do a lot of September 2001 stuff. And they gave Tom the Jets crashing into me joke, but they wanted me to do that. But I was like ‘yeah, I don’t really know.'”

Then, there was one joke that the former quarterback had pitched to his family but was immediately shot down by the women of his house. According to Drew Bledsoe, he had a Gisele joke in mind, but it didn’t go down extremely well with his wife and daughter, both of whom explicitly told him not to do it.

So it seems the joke that had most of America’s jaws on the floor was initially meant to be delivered by Bledsoe. While he passed on it, Brady had no problem taking it up and making it his own.

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