Chelsea Handler Torches Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe at Kevin Hart Roast as Politics Dominate
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Updated · Vulture · May 11
Chelsea Handler Torches Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe at Kevin Hart Roast as Politics Dominate
8 articles · Updated · Vulture · May 11
Chelsea Handler sharpened the Netflix roast’s biggest clash by firing back at host Shane Gillis and then unloading on Tony Hinchcliffe with abortion, racism and Joe Rogan jokes.
Gillis set off the exchange by introducing Handler with lines about Zionism, abortion and her 2010 dinner at Jeffrey Epstein’s house, prompting her to answer with jabs about his anti-Asian-slur scandal and canceled SNL stint.
Handler then cast Gillis and Hinchcliffe as Trump-aligned “manosphere” comics, telling Hinchcliffe he was “what happens when women don’t have safe access to abortion care” and accusing both men of cross-burning-style racism.
The set widened into a broader political swipe at male comics who played the Riyadh Comedy Festival, with Handler mocking support for a possible Iran war even though Gillis and Hinchcliffe have said they turned that festival down.
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