Pete Davidson used fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe to take photos of Charlie Kirk and Kanye West during a Netflix show Roast Kevin Hart Sunday night.
“Tony Hinchcliffe here looks like a child molester and the doll they give the child to show where he touched them,” Davidson said as he put his fellow comedian in the hot seat during the three-hour special. “Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, because he was definitely on camera letting a guy empty his load down his throat,” Davidson continued, as the audience reaction suggested it was too early to make jokes about the late Turning Point USA leader, who was fatally shot during a speech at Utah Valley University in September. The bullet appears to have hit Kirk in the neck.
“Oh, you don’t know me? Yes. Yes. Kill Tony! Please. Someone kill Tony!” Davidson added in reference to kill tony, The popular weekly podcast co-hosted by Hinchcliffe. Davidson was making jokes about Hinchcliffe and others on the panel, including Lizzo, Chelsea Handler and Jeff Ross.
“Tony, nothing you say tonight is going to hurt my feelings. I had a falling out with Kanye, so I took pictures of better gay Nazis,” Davidson joked. the SNL The star also took aim at Hart, joking at one point: “What can you say about Kevin that hasn’t actually been yelled at by a man with Tourette’s at the BAFTAs?”
Davidson then thanked Hart as he concluded his part in the roast: “I love you so much. You’ve always been so good to me. … You’re a very hard-working person, and when all is said and done, in the world of comedy, that’s important to remember.”
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel saw his eponymous late-night talk show briefly suspended from the network in the fall after comments he made about Kirk’s murder, prompting threats from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who has since launched an early review of the broadcast licenses of Disney parent ABC. As a streaming outlet, Netflix doesn’t face the same FCC restrictions.
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