Comedian Pete Davidson Faces Backlash After Making Joke About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

Comedian Pete Davidson is receiving some backlash after making a distasteful joke about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

On Sunday night, Pete Davidson was one of the many comedians in attendance at the Roast of Kevin Hart.

The event, which was aired on Netflix, brought together dozens of comedians and celebrities to roast (make fun of) comedian and actor Kevin Hart.

However, during one part of the roast, Pete Davidson used his microphone time to make light of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Fox News provided full quotes from Davidson’s “joke”:

Comedian Pete Davidson faced backlash after an explicit rant on Sunday during Netflix’s “The Roast of Kevin Hart” at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

“Tony Hinchcliffe is here, looking like both a child molester, and the doll they give the child to show where he touched them,” Davidson said of the fellow comedian.

He continued, saying, “Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat.”

“Kill Tony, please. Someone f—ing kill Tony,” Davidson continued. “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.”

Kirk, the 31-year-old co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed on Sept. 10 while he was speaking at an event at Utah Valley University for TPUSA’s American Comeback Tour.

In a Monday post on Instagram, Us Weekly reported: “Pete Davidson made a brutal joke about the late Charlie Kirk while taking a shot at fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during last night’s #KevinHartRoast on Netflix.”

Watch the moment he said it here:

‘Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat’ — Pete Davidson about Tony Hinchcliffe

‘Kill Tony, please, someone’ pic.twitter.com/8p38EUS2BO

— RT (@RT_com) May 11, 2026

Here’s how users on X reacted:

Disgusting! All common decency is lost when Pete Davidson thinks it’s ok, in any context, to joke about an assassination. https://t.co/prtQ041e5N

— The Great Gats🐝 (@Gardyloo_Alert) May 11, 2026

Pete Davidson is one huge dumbass.

This didn’t make my laugh once. pic.twitter.com/KlFwwkCJX2

— Lancevideos (@lancevideos) May 11, 2026

Netflix doing Netflix things, with Pete Davidson making fun of Charlie Kirk, is what's expected from a company that's losing money every day. The Roast of Kevin Hart sucks, and Shane Gillis can carry it on his own. pic.twitter.com/pw61miTfZv

— Cielo 🇺🇸🇵🇷 (@CieloBonit) May 11, 2026

TPUSA representatives responded to the joke during a recent airing of the Charlie Kirk Show.

Watch here:

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

Did you know President Trump once participated in a roast before he ran for office?

Check out some of the harshest jokes from the roast here: