On the heels of yet another assassination attempt on Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner on April 26 by another radicalized liberal filled with TDS hatred, the left continues to ignore how their hateful, dehumanizing rhetoric fuels political violence. A prime example happened on Netflix Sunday evening during The Roast of Kevin Hart when actor/comedian Pete Davidson made a shockingly horrific “joke” at the expense of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
It’s only been 8 months since Kirk was murdered on camera for the whole world to see while trying to encourage dialogue among those with differing political views. He believed violence occurs when people stop talking to, and recognizing the humanity of, those they disagree with politically.
So, it was ironic to hear Davidson dehumanize Kirk with a highly offensive and lewd sexual “joke” as he roasted fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who is a heterosexual conservative:
Pete Davidson makes horrific "joke" mocking the cold-blooded murder of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk. #NotFunny #TheRoastofKevinHart @charliekirk11 @BlakeSNeff pic.twitter.com/sotKueWx77
— Dawn Slusher (@BlondeBlogger) May 12, 2026
Davidson: Tony Hinchcliffe is here, looking like both a child molester, and the doll they give the child to show where he touched them. Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat. Oh, you don’t know me? Yeah.
Kill Tony, please. Someone f***ing kill Tony. 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. Thank you. Yeah.
In a climate soaked with political hatred, this isn't harmless humor. It's pouring gasoline on an already out-of-control fire. When celebrities casually desecrate murdered conservatives, it tells unhinged leftists their political opponents are subhuman. Jokes like this normalize the idea that conservative corpses are punchlines, not tragedies.
The producer for The Charlie Kirk Show, Blake Neff, responded to Davidson’s joke on X:
On today's show we discussed Pete Davidson's joke about Charlie's death while roasting Tony Hinchcliffe. My take: I didn't like it, and I'm glad the audience wasn't into it, but there are other "jokes" we've seen that are clearly a lot more hateful in intent than Pete's, and a… pic.twitter.com/NFH8CM69sU
— Blake Neff (@BlakeSNeff) May 11, 2026
Neff: I didn't like it, and I'm glad the audience wasn't into it, 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.
This isn’t Davidson’s first controversial joke. In 2018, he apologized for mocking then-Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s war injury. He later took back his apology, obviously failing to learn anything from the experience.
Given the loss of his father in the 9/11 attacks, Davidson should know better than most that grief is not a punchline. Ironically, Davidson knows exactly what it feels like when a father’s death becomes material for public ridicule. When comedian Jimmy Carr joked, “This is not the roast of Pete Davidson’s father. That was in 2001,” Davidson must have felt the brutality of being reminded of his father’s death so cruelly. He knows what it's like for the world to joke about your irreplaceable loss.
Even more striking, Davidson reportedly approved Carr’s joke in advance and called it “dope,” right after it was said, suggesting he has learned to mask the pain with bravado. If so, that only makes his joke about Charlie Kirk more troubling, not less. Someone who has lived with that kind of loss should understand better than most that grief is not raw material for cheap laughs, especially when the cruelty lands on a grieving widow and two young children already carrying an unbearable burden.
If Davidson was truly funny, he wouldn’t need cheap, rage-bait jokes to stay relevant. It appears he might be buying his own pain behind cruelty, refusing to consider the harm his words inflict. As the saying goes, hurt people hurt people. Whatever his motives, it doesn’t excuse the damage his “humor” causes, both directly to those who knew and loved Charlie the most, and to the security of our nation as a whole in a time when political hate and violence are rampant.
