Jeff Ross says Tom Brady ‘lost half’ his humor in divorce

Tom Brady has said taking part in his infamous roast was a mistake — but famed “roast master” Jeff Ross tells Page Six he has “mixed feelings” about the QB’s regrets.

Ross said he admired Brady for toughing it out on the fateful comedic night, but he quipped to us: “I didn’t realize you could lose half your sense of humor in a divorce.”

“I want everyone to love the roast,” explains Ross, whose Broadway debut, “Take A Banana For The Ride,” opens on Aug. 18. “To leave there feeling like it was the greatest night of their life.”

Ross, who has roasted everyone from Donald Trump to Charlie Sheen, told us that after Bruce Willis’ roast, the “Die Hard” actor sent him a thank you note. Pamela Anderson sent him flowers after hers.

“After the Bieber roast, Martha Stewart [who famously cracked jokes at Bieber’s event] sent everybody sheets,” he said, “So that’s my goal. Anything short of that is, ‘eh, OK.’”

He said of Brady’s response: “I didn’t realize you could lose half your sense of humor in a divorce. That’s what I would say.”

But, he added, “Above that, beyond that, the guy deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for taking the hits for three hours so the rest of us can forget our problems.”

“I loved when the jokes were about me,” Brady said on “The Pivot” podcast in the days after the May 2024 Netflix broadcast. “I thought they were so fun. I didn’t like the way it affected my kids.”

He added: “So it’s the hardest part; the bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is one way and all of a sudden, you realize ‘I wouldn’t do that again’ because of the way it affected, actually, the people I care about the most in the world.”

Many of the jabs from comics including Kevin Hart, Nikki Glazer, Andrew Schultz and others were about Brady’s high-profile split from his exes, Gisele Bundchen and Bridget Moynahan.

Meanwhile, Ross told us of “Take A Banana for the Ride“: “It’s my origin story. But there’s more to it. It’s about resilience and getting through life.”

Ross, who lost both his parents before he turned 20, says that he “learned a lot about resilience and mourning and how human beings are made to mourn but not forever.

“You need to mourn and move on, or a part of you dies.”

The show also honors two of Ross’ close friends who have passed away, Bob Saget and Gilbert Gottfried.

“Losing those guys,” he shares. “It was devastating. I invested all my secrets in these guys, and then they’re gone. And they inspired me.

“Their demise — I hate saying ‘their death’ because I feel like their name lives on — but they inspired me to revive a show I had been working on 30 years ago, because I wanted to honor them and keep their names alive. And that’s what I’m doing,” he said.