Stand-up comic Kevin Hart came to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s defense this week, saying a joke he told regarding George Floyd was on-brand for the type of racial humor expected at roast events.
Speaking to The Breakfast Club on Tuesday about backlash over Hinchcliffe’s performance during Netflix’s “Roast of Kevin Hart,” the height-challenged Jumanji actor argued that while the Floyd joke “wasn’t tasteful,” it was par for the course.
“It wasn’t a tasteful joke to our culture, to our audience, but our audience that’s watching the roast. If you’re watching the roast, you get why they’re doing it,” Hart told podcast host Charlamagne tha God, aka Lenard McKelvey.
“You get why the racial humor is on the table. Like, I wasn’t shocked,” he said. “That’s what they do. Go and look at the Tom Brady one….It happens every year when they do a roast. It’s not new. This isn’t a new agenda. It’s not a new approach to comedy.”
Asked if he thought Hinchcliffe’s joke went too far, Hart replied, “It’s Tony Hinchcliffe. Yeah. Like, I don’t expect less. I don’t expect more.”
Hart went on to say people should consider Hinchcliffe’s set as a whole, saying it was arguably one of the best sets of the night.
“Tony told a joke,” he said. “It wasn’t a tasteful joke to us. We didn’t like it. OK. … We move on. I don’t understand why we stand on a hill, and it becomes this big thing … It doesn’t have to be that. It literally is, either you’re a fan of this level of content or you’re not. And if you’re not a fan, then you don’t watch it.”
Hart’s defense of the joke came one day after the sixth anniversary of George Floyd’s death.
During the roast, Hinchcliffe joked, “You’ve done good, though, Kevin. The black community is so proud of you. Right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can’t breathe,” a reference to the deceased man’s repeated pleas for police to release him as he suffered a fatal fentanyl overdose.
Throughout the roast, multiple comedians took shots at Hinchcliffe calling him a gay racist nazi white supremacist due to his perception as a MAGA supporter after he performed at then-candidate Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in 2024, with fellow roaster liberal comedian Chelsea Handler majorly taking umbrage to Hinchcliffe’s presence and racial humor.
Hinchcliffe shot back at Handler during an episode of his Kill Tony podcast uploaded Monday, adding that the teleprompter mysteriously went haywire amid his routine but not during others’ sets.
Watch a longer segment of Hart’s interview below:
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5 Responses
“Thats raciiissst!”
Moving on….
THAT was funny! You go Tony Hinchcliffe!
American Blacks are some of the most thin skinned emotionally weak people on Earth
He’s just another useless untalented comedian.
And you’re just another fat woman on the Internet