Black comedian Kevin Hart has come to the defense of white comedian Tony Hinchcliffe and the crude jokes he told during a recent Netflix appearance.
Hinchcliffe, an actual comedian who isn’t afraid to, you know, be funny, used the roast to mock some of the left’s heroes, including deceased criminal convict and fentanyl addict George Floyd.
Listen:
Tony Hinchcliffe made a WILD George Floyd joke while roasting Kevin Hart 💀
“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.” pic.twitter.com/33T2anzhja
— Killa 🌺 (@KillaKreww) May 11, 2026
This decision prompted a flurry of backlash and criticism from thin-skinned leftists like actress and supposed comedian Chelsea Handler, who outright called Hinchcliffe “racist.”
But appearing this Tuesday on “The Breakfast Club” radio program, Hart lightly defended Hinchcliffe and the joke.
“Yeah, the George Floyd joke, it wasn’t a tasteful joke to our culture, to our audience, but our audience that’s watching the roasts, if you’re watching the roasts, you get why they’re doing it,” he began. “You get why the racial humor is on the table. Like it’s not… I wasn’t shocked.”
“Like, that’s what they do. Go look at the Tom Brady one. Like, that’s what they do. It happens every year when they do a roast. It’s not new. This isn’t a new… It’s not a new agenda. It’s not a new approach to comedy,” he added.
Correct. So-called racial jokes have been a staple of roasts for decades.
Listen to Hart below:
Kevin Hart speaks out for the first time about all the BACKLASH over the George Floyd and slavery jokes from his ROAST and says they weren’t “tasteful” jokes but were done in the spirit of roasting 😳👀
He also responds to people saying he should’ve “defended the culture” and… pic.twitter.com/hx5KZGDD3k
— Killa 🌺 (@KillaKreww) May 26, 2026
Hart was then asked by host Charlamagne tha God whether Hinchcliffe’s joke had gone “too far.”
“It’s Tony Hinchcliffe,” the comedian replied. “Like, I don’t expect less. I don’t expect more.”
“I feel like you’re saying going too far is the point,” an oblivious Charlamagne pushed back. “I don’t want to put words in your mouth.”
FYI, going too far is the exact point of a celebrity roast.
(Video Credit: Comedy Central UK)
“Yes, I mean, that’s why you’re there,” Hart accurately noted.
He continued by praising Hinchcliffe for his whole “set” of jokes.
“I hate to say this, but I’m going to because we’re being honest. People are talking about that joke. Talk about a set!” he said. “Tony Hinchcliffe arguably had the best set or one of the best sets between Tony and Sheryl [Underwood], and I would say Na’im [Lynn] had a really strong set.”
Later during the “Breakfast Club” discussion, fellow host Loren Loroso brought up a recent interview she’d conducted with Floyd’s brother, Terrence, in which he’d complained about Hart not standing up for his dead criminal sibling.
“He’s a fan of you,” Loroso told Hart. “He saw the [Floyd] joke, and it picked up pretty big. So I didn’t know if you saw it, but he basically said, like, as a fan of you and knowing that you came to the [Floyd] funeral to support his family, even though it’s a roast and Tony, that’s what he does, they expected you to kind of be the person that would like stop it right in the moment or just not allow for certain things to happen.”
“And he also said he wanted you to come harder,” Charlamagne further noted. “He said, if they’re going to joke, why you ain’t come harder with your own jokes?”
That’s when Hart dropped the mic.
“They talked about my dead mom and my dead dad!” he said, referencing jokes from the roast that were about him. “Said that they were running a train on my mom. … The jokes about Kevin was on a slave ship in a bottle with like the ship in the bottle. Like, I’m going to appreciate humor. I don’t get affected by the attempt of humor. I get it. Right? In this case, like, do more.”
“It’s my production. We’re live. The more is what? Like, what is it that you expect me? You want me to take a live production and stand up and fight Tony, or have a reaction? Like, Tony told a joke. It wasn’t a tasteful joke to us. We didn’t like it. Okay. Hey, man, fuck that joke. We move on. I don’t understand why we stand on a hill, and it becomes like this big thing,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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