Chelsea Handler is not censoring her thoughts about some of the comedians who appeared on Kevin Hart's Netflix roast this May.
During an interview on Deon Cole's podcast, Funny Knowing You, Chelsea spoke her mind when it came to her opinions on Shane Gillis' and Tony Hinchcliffe's sets during the roast, which included other comedians like Pete Davidson, Katt Williams, and Sheryl Underwood.
"It was ick. It was gross,” she told Deon about the "jokes" Shane and Tony delivered in their sets. She called out Shane's lynching joke in particular, when he said during the broadcast: "Kevin is so short, you’d have to lynch him from a bonsai tree."
“I don’t find those jokes to be funny,” Chelsea said. “Jokes about lynching Black people, lynching is not a joke. That’s worse than rape. You’re not joking about rape, are you? … You know you can’t do that, but you can say ‘lynching’?”
Chelsea also shared with Deon that she had received messages from people who claim to have been former partners of Shane and Tony. When Deon asked Chelsea what they had told her, Chelsea responded, "It’s just everything we know, that they’re racist, that they’re bigots, they’re sexist."
On top of the lynching joke, people were also disturbed about Tony's George Floyd dig. "Right now, George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can’t breathe," Tony said. Disgustingly disrespectful, full stop.
"People are like, it’s a roast," Chelsea continued. "You go for it. I’m like, you can go for it without being gross. I find that to be gross. I found them making fun of Sheryl Underwood’s dead husband, who committed suicide… I wasn’t fine with that.”
"There was so much disgustingness that I knew it was going to be such a gross vibe,” she said. But Chelsea said that since she could almost predict the material the MAGA-friendly comedians would go for, she knew how to play it when it was her turn at the mic. “Then I would be able to elevate it, no problem," she said. "And that’s what I went to do."
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