After calling out comics Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe for some of their jokes at Kevin Hart’s Netflix roast, Chelsea Handler is now facing her own backlash for clutching her pearls over the offensive humor.
On Wednesday, during an appearance on Deon Cole’s Funny Knowing You podcast, Handler called Gillis’ lynching joke (“Kevin is so short, you’d have to lynch him from a bonsai tree”) “worse than rape.” The comic, who has been known for getting personal with her comedy targets throughout her career, also told Cole that she’d received messages on social media about Gillis and Hinchcliffe from their alleged former partners.
When asked what they told her, Handler said, “It’s just everything we know, that they’re racist, that they’re bigots, they’re sexist.”
And wasn’t just these few gags, apparently. Handler said she did not enjoy any of the two men’s jokes during the roast in honor of Hart, with whom she has been friends for years.
“It was ick. It was gross,” Handler said.
