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Tony Hinchcliffe is firing back at Chelsea Handler and everyone else who called him out over his jokes at the Kevin Hart roast.
Last week, Handler went viral when she called Hinchcliffe and Shane Gillis racists over their jokes at the Kevin Hart roast.
“It’s just everything we know, that they’re racist, that they’re bigots, they’re sexist,” Handler said during an interview on the Funny Knowing You podcast.
“No. I mean, it was ick. It was gross.” She specifically called out a few jokes that Gillis and Hinchcliffe made during the Netflix special, with the first being Gillis’ joke about lynching. (“Kevin is so short, you’d have to lynch him from a bonsai tree,” he said during the episode.
“I don’t find those jokes to be funny,” Handler said. “Jokes about lynching Black people, lynching is not a joke. That’s worse than rape.”
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During a recent Kill Tony set, Hinchcliffe fired back at comedians who have called him a racist and a Nazi in recent weeks.
“Kevin Hart was something else, huh? It’s the first time I’ve been called a Nazi multiple times in just a few hours. I guess that’s what LA writers’ rooms are. All these mentally ill liberals out there that somehow the guy who pulls names out of a bucket, giving everybody an opportunity, is a Nazi. Isn’t that something?”
“I was called that by a bunch of people who have never written anything in their lives, who literally have just been reading cue cards and teleprompters, every project they’ve ever done, with the inability to improvise whatsoever, no opportunity to have their own thoughts. They just read what the writers wrote for them without any originality whatsoever.”
“I got called a Nazi, gay, a racist, over and over again. I’m none of those three things. A little fun fact, but they are fat, ugly, black, and Jewish. Everything I said about them was real. ”
Hinchcliffe also went at Chandler over her comments and her performance at the roast.
“There’s news articles that say that I got lit up by Chelsea Handler, which is very, very funny, because that’s not what happened at all. You can’t believe anything you see or read on the news anymore. You have actually to watch the thing for yourself. She was a bit of a c-nt, I’ll tell you that.”
“The writers just didn’t do her any justice. But then the teleprompter, fun fact, the teleprompter only went down during my set. And it gave me a lot of opportunity to remind Chelsea Handler what she looks like and where her life is, because she had it coming.”
“Everybody wants to go up early in those things and so what they don’t realize is that I’m sitting there watching what they’re doing. So when Chelsea kept coming at me, I’m like, oh, I’m gonna f-ck this b-tch up.”
“It was so rough. I looked like I woke up looking like Chelsea Handler. That’s how rough my night was. I just had, like, that Botox swollen, inflamed face that just, you know, seems like you used to be successful 15 years ago and you’re not anymore. You know what I mean? Felt like that worst feeling. Then I just took a two hour nap and I was back to being one of the best in the world.”
Tony Hinchcliffe speaks out about all the backlash he’s been getting over his George Floyd joke at the Kevin Hart roast and people calling him a Nazi while continuing to throw shots at Chelsea Handler 😳👀
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