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Pete Davidson Torched After Sick Charlie Kirk Assassination Joke

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Pete Davidson is facing furious backlash after joking about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk during Netflix’s live Roast of Kevin Hart.

The 32-year-old comedian made the remark Sunday night at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California while roasting fellow comic Tony Hinchcliffe during the livestreamed event.

Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed Sept. 10, 2025 during an event at Utah Valley University. He was 31.

Davidson referenced the killing while mocking Hinchcliffe on stage.

“Tony Hinchcliffe is here, looking like both a child molester, and the doll they give the child to show where he touched them,” Davidson said.

He then pivoted to Kirk, who was shot in the neck. “Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat,” Davidson added.

The joke immediately drew outrage online, with critics blasting Davidson for making light of the conservative commentator’s murder.

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Kirk is survived by his wife, Erika Kirk, and the couple’s two young children, who were born in 2022 and 2024.

“What makes this even worse is that he lost his father on 9/11,” one X user wrote Monday.

“He understands the pain of growing up without a dad, but he’s joking about a man whose children will now grow up without theirs.”

Another critic wrote, “Roasts are supposed to be shocking but also funny. Not just shockingly deranged.”

“He failed to make it funny. Just seemed gratuitous and cheap. He needs to work more on his jokes and their construction,” the user added.

A separate X user called Davidson “a worthless piece of s—” and argued his joke bombing with the crowd reflected how “unfunny he actually is.”

Others pointed to the uncomfortable reaction inside the arena itself.

Blake Neff, producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show,” acknowledged the joke Monday while noting the audience response.

“I didn’t like it, and I’m glad the audience wasn’t into it,” Neff wrote on X.

“But there are other ‘jokes’ we’ve seen that are clearly a lot more hateful in intent than Pete’s, and a few bad-taste jokes about Charlie are the price we have to pay for how iconic he has become in American culture.”

Davidson’s Kirk remark came during a larger attack on Hinchcliffe before the comedian shifted into another target, rapper Kanye West.

“Kill Tony, please. Someone f—ing kill Tony,” Davidson said.

“Tony, nothing you say tonight will hurt my feelings. I was in a beef with Kanye, so I’ve taken shots from better gay Nazis.”

The comment reopened one of the nastiest celebrity feuds in recent years.

Davidson and West spent months publicly attacking each other in 2022 while Davidson was dating Kim Kardashian following her split from the rapper.

The conflict escalated repeatedly across social media, music videos, leaked text messages, and stand-up routines.

In January 2022, West previewed lyrics from the song “Eazy” in which he rapped, “God saved me from the crash / Just so I can beat Pete Davidson’s a**.”

West later released a music video featuring a claymation figure resembling Davidson being kidnapped, decapitated, and buried.

The rapper also repeatedly mocked Davidson online using the nickname “Skete.”

The feud reached another level in March 2022 when leaked text messages showed Davidson taunting West while lying in bed.

“In bed with your wife,” Davidson wrote alongside a selfie showing him sticking out his tongue and flashing a peace sign.

Davidson continued joking publicly about West during a Netflix stand-up special and later during his final appearance on “Saturday Night Live” in May 2022.

After Davidson and Kardashian broke up later that year following a roughly 10-month relationship, West appeared to celebrate the split online.

The rapper shared a fake newspaper headline that read, “Skete Davidson Dead At Age 28.”

West has also faced repeated backlash in recent years over antisemitic remarks and other controversies.

Davidson’s comments about both Kirk and West were only part of the chaos surrounding the roast.

Another exchange that quickly spread online involved comedians Shane Gillis and Chelsea Handler.

Gillis took aim at Handler during his set, calling her “a Zionist” while referencing her past comments about attending a dinner party at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse years ago.

“Not saying that’s a good or bad thing,” Gillis joked. “Speaking of dead kids, she’s a big fan of abortions.”

He continued by mocking Handler over her dating history, joking that she has “been scraped more times than the grill at Benihana,” and then returned to the Epstein controversy.

“Speaking of tossing tiny shrimp into a child’s mouth, Chelsea Handler went to dinner at Jeffrey Epstein’s house in 2010,” Gillis teed up.

Gillis referenced Handler’s previous public comments about attending a dinner at Epstein’s townhouse with figures including Katie Couric, Charlie Rose, Woody Allen, Soon-Yi Previn, and Prince Andrew.

“Look it up, there’s articles. It wasn’t like a big party, there were like seven people there. It was like Prince Andrew and Woody Allen were there,’ Gillis delivered.

Handler later fired back from the stage. “Shane, just so you know, Judaism and Zionism are two different things,” she said.

“Just like how Chinatown and Koreatown are two different things, but your favorite slur works in both places.”

The jab referenced Gillis’ own controversy from 2019, when he was fired from “Saturday Night Live” shortly after being announced as a cast member.

Old podcast clips resurfaced showing Gillis using racist language toward Asians and making homophobic remarks during conversations with fellow comic Matt McCusker.

In one clip, Gillis referred to Chinatown using an anti-Asian slur.

“An Asian trying to learn English bothers me more than someone listening to Lil Uzi Vert while I’m trying to eat f—ing dinner,” he said in another clip.

The clips went viral within hours of NBC announcing Gillis as a new “SNL” cast member.

He later apologized on X to “anyone actually offended” before being removed from the show.

Handler has separately faced criticism from pro-Palestinian activists over remarks defending Israel following the war against Hamas.

“I want to be clear that we are pro-Palestinian and anti-Hamas,” Handler said in a February 2024 video alongside Israeli actress Noa Tishby.

“Progressives must love Israel. Israel is our greatest defense in the Middle East for all of Western democracy and Western values.”

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