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Tony Hinchcliffe used a vulgar slur against Chelsea Handler on his Kill Tony podcast Monday, after she called his Kevin Hart roast jokes racist and bigoted.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe retaliated against Chelsea Handler on Monday’s episode of his Kill Tony podcast, using a vulgar gendered slur to describe her and announcing he intended to f–k this bitch up after her criticism of his material at the Kevin Hart Netflix roast.
The feud is about jokes that have not been quiet. At the roast, Hinchcliffe made remarks about George Floyd and about the suicide death in 1990 of comedian Sheryl Underwood‘s late husband. Roast MC Shane Gillis made a separate joke about lynching that referenced Hart’s height.
Handler took the first public swing. Page Six’s running coverage of the feud and the full Kill Tony quotes documents Handler’s May 20 appearance on Deon Cole’s Funny Knowing You podcast, where she called both comedians racists and bigots and said the Floyd and lynching jokes were not acceptable comedy.
“Lynching black people is not a joke,” Handler said on the podcast. “It’s worse than rape.” She added that she had known enough about Hinchcliffe and Gillis beforehand and had expected the roast to have what she called a gross vibe.
Hinchcliffe’s response five days later was confrontational. On Kill Tony, he denied Handler had lit him up during the roast itself and accused her writers of failing her. He said the teleprompter going down during his set gave him a lot of opportunity to remind Chelsea Handler what she looks like and where her life is because she had it coming.
Gillis answered through a representative. His statement, also routed to Page Six, was structured as a deadpan joke at Handler’s expense: “This is a big moment for Chelsea. I am glad she’s capitalizing. Good for her. We’re all rooting for her. Anyway come see me July 17th at the football stadium in Philly.”
Sheryl Underwood went on Entertainment Tonight separately. Although she had been shown on the broadcast laughing at the jokes about her late husband, she said in the post-roast interview that those particular bits were in poor taste.
Underwood’s larger concern was the George Floyd and lynching material. “I told Tony Hinchcliffe personally, you gotta deal with the Floyd family, and they got hands,” she said. She separately asked, “What is in your brain that makes you think this is OK?”
Kevin Hart, the roast’s subject, joined the conversation on The Breakfast Club Tuesday. He told the show the George Floyd joke wasn’t tasteful to our culture, to our audience, but that the audience watching the roast format understood the territory the comedians were operating in.
The Page Six tweet thread, the outlet’s social broadcast of the Hinchcliffe-Handler back-and-forth, circulated heavily on Tuesday across comedy and entertainment-media feeds. The post drew significant engagement from both Kill Tony’s fan base and Handler’s late-night audience.
The roast itself remains streaming on Netflix. The platform has not commented on the post-broadcast feud. The Kevin Hart roast has become one of the streamer’s most-watched comedy specials of the year.
NY Post’s Facebook coverage of the Hinchcliffe-Handler feud tracked the rapid spread of the Kill Tony clip across social.
The next Kill Tony episode tapes later this week. Handler’s response, if any, will likely come on her own show or podcast cycle.
Comedy has not finished arguing about itself yet.
