“Ooh, spicy,” his co-hosts concurred.
Meyers continued: “He was like, ‘Do you think I should do this?
I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’
Peyton Manning hosting ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 2007.Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty
It was really, I was like, ‘I don’t process ideas this fast!'”
“It was a soft burn that would have been the 200th-hottest burn at the Brady roast.
Whatever it was, my memory is that it seems very quaint now.”
The rivalry between the two legendary quarterbacks has always been affable.
It’s always a bit odd when a non-comedian is chosen as the subject of a celebrity roast.
But, ever the gracious Southerner, the joke was at his own expense, not his rival’s.
“He said to me, ‘Peyton, what do Tom Brady and the circus have in common?’
I said, ‘What’s that Joe?’
He said, ‘They have two more rings than you do.'”
The crowd’s knee-jerk laughter quickly fizzled into a shocked “ooooh.”
“You know, I said thanks,” Manning quickly recovered.
