Overview
- During Sunday’s Netflix Roast of Kevin Hart, Pete Davidson delivered a crude line that referenced Charlie Kirk’s on-camera assassination while roasting comic Tony Hinchcliffe.
- Audience groans followed the remark, and Davidson leaned into the discomfort with more edgy asides aimed at Hinchcliffe.
- Ben Shapiro, reacting on his Monday podcast, called the bit a “new low,” while Charlie Kirk Show producers Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet labeled it distasteful and noted the crowd’s cool response.
- Kirk, the Turning Point USA founder, was shot in September 2025 at a Utah event, with graphic video spreading online; suspect Tyler Robinson surrendered about 30 hours later and now awaits a July preliminary hearing.
- Erika Kirk now leads Turning Point USA and has described a stream of hostile messages since the murder, as right-leaning commentators frame Davidson’s joke as dehumanizing rhetoric that risks normalizing political violence.