{"id":2948,"date":"2026-05-21T02:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/chelsea-handler-blasts-shane-gillis-and-tony-hinchcliffe-after-kevin-hart-roast\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:24:22","slug":"chelsea-handler-blasts-shane-gillis-and-tony-hinchcliffe-after-kevin-hart-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/chelsea-handler-blasts-shane-gillis-and-tony-hinchcliffe-after-kevin-hart-roast\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Handler blasts Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe after Kevin Hart roast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/05\/128352530.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chelsea Handler made withering comments about fellow comedians Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe after their <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/video\/most-savage-roast-of-kevin-hart-moments-tom-brady-chelsea-handler-more\/\">polarizing comments at Kevin Hart\u2019s recent roast<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew enough about Tony and Shane \u2014\u00a0 they\u2019re racists, they\u2019re bigots, they\u2019re sexist,\u201d the \u201cChelsea Handler Show\u201d star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mB_IMMzDL7M\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said during Wednesday\u2019s episode <\/a>of \u201cDen Cole\u2019s Funny Knowing You\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t find those jokes funny,\u201d she went on, referencing Gillis poking fun at Hart\u2019s height during the roast earlier this month, saying Hart, 46, is so short \u201cthey\u2019re gonna have to lynch him from a bonsai tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cLynching Black people is not a joke,\u201d Handler asserted. \u201cIt\u2019s worse than rape.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Chelsea Handler shaded Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane Gillis\u2019 controversial jokes at the Kevin Hart roast earlier this month. She\u2019s seen above on the \u201cDen Cole\u2019s Funny Knowing You\u201d podcast. <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Deon Cole\u0092s Funny Knowing You<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>She called the comedians, seen above in January 2025, \u201cbigots.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The author, 51, also touched on Hinchcliffe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/11\/celebrity-news\/tony-hinchcliffe-mocks-sheryl-underwoods-late-husbands-suicide-at-kevin-hart-roast\/\">joke about the death of Sheryl Underwood\u2019s late husband<\/a>, Michael Sparkman, who died by suicide back in 1990 \u2014 though Underwood herself recently appeared on Gillis\u2019 \u201cMatt and Shane\u2019s Secret Podcast\u201d the same day, defending the jokes and saying that,\u00a0\u201cSometimes humor is the thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Handler insisted that Hart \u201cdeserved\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/11\/celebrity-news\/best-jokes-cut-from-kevin-harts-netflix-roast-special\/\">an \u201celevated roast,\u201d <\/a>and that at a roast, comedians can \u201cgo for it without being gross.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was so much disgustingness, I knew it was gonna be a gross vibe,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>\u201cLynching Black people is not a joke,\u201d Handler said during the podcast, referencing a joke by Gillis.  <span class=\"credit\">YouTube\/Deon Cole\u0092s Funny Knowing You<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Handler, pictured with Hart at the event, \u201cknew it was gonna be a gross vibe,\u201d she said.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Handler, who was a roaster at the event, was introduced by Gillis with equally blistering comments referencing her appearance at a 2010 event hosted by late convicted sex offender\u00a0Jeffrey Epstein and taking aim at her liberal views. <\/p>\n<p>Gillis later defended the coarse comments as \u201cfun\u201d \u2014 Handler, meanwhile, addressed her attendance at Epstein\u2019s event in a 2021 interview with Rob Lowe, insisting the dinner party was \u201cawkward\u201d and that she \u201cdidn\u2019t know who\u201d the disgraced financier was at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Handler isn\u2019t the only one who had views on Hart\u2019s roast, which is currently streaming on Netflix. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Michael Che was originally scheduled to appear at the event, but sources\u00a0told Variety\u00a0that he had to ditch the roast due to scheduling conflicts with NBC\u2019s sketch comedy show. <\/p>\n<p>Che, 43, took to Instagram two days after the roast in a since-deleted upload to <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/13\/celebrity-news\/michael-che-pulled-out-of-kevin-hart-roast-before-shading-white-writers-for-racist-jokes\/\">criticize the jokes delivered by Hinchcliffe and Gillis<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Handler, pictured above at the roast next to Hart and Gillis, said Hart \u201cdeserved\u201d an \u201celevated roast.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>Gillis also lashed out with controversial jokes aimed at Handler when introducing the author at the event.  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images for Netflix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhite guys and black people joke different,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBlack guys roast like, \u2018look at this n\u2013a shoes!\u2019 white roasts are like, \u2018slavery, math, slain teens, sex crimes, slurs, family secrets.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Che added, \u201cwhite guys dont give a f\u2013k about they shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another since-deleted post, the Emmy-nominated writer took aim at white writers\u00a0hired to write jokes for comedians at the controversial live event. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Lets do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last 10 years,\u2019\u201d he\u00a0wrote. \u201c\u2018I love that! who should we get to write it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another slide, he shared a pic of five members of Gillis\u2019 writing team \u2014 all white men. \u201cCmonnnnnnnnn\u2026 thats not funny?\u201d the comedic actor captioned the snapshot.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/05\/20\/celebrity-news\/chelsea-handler-blasts-shane-gillis-and-tony-hinchcliffe-after-kevin-hart-roast\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Handler made withering comments about fellow comedians Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe after their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/128352530.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}