Pete Davidson savaged Kanye West and Charlie Kirk in one shocking punchline during a Sunday night roast of comedian Kevin Hart. The "Saturday Night Live" alum held nothing back while going after West, the ex-husband of his former girlfriend Kim Kardashian, and the late conservative influencer Kirk, who was killed while speaking at a Utah college last September.
The Roast Begins with Tony Hinchcliffe
The bit began with a takedown of Tony Hinchcliffe, a podcaster and insult comic who unapologetically made an offensive joke aimed at Puerto Ricans during a 2016 Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. "Tony Hinchcliffe's here looking like both a child molester and the doll they give the child to show where he touched them," Davidson riffed about the mustachioed comic.
"Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, in that he's definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat," Davidson went on, referencing where the fatal shot appeared to hit Kirk in graphic footage of the incident that was circulated online. Pete Davidson skewered late right-wing activist Charlie Kirk before taking a stab at rapper and rival Kanye West during a roast of Kevin Hart on Sunday night.
Davidson Targets Kanye West
Taking down as many people as possible, Davidson then cracked, "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." West, who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021, openly proclaimed himself a Nazi after he had multiple brand partnerships canceled following a spree of antisemitic tweets in 2022.
Doubling down shortly after, West went on noted conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' "InfoWars" series to say he saw "good things about Hitler," and to dispute the Holocaust's death toll while also declaring, "I am a Nazi." Come 2025, he used an expensive Super Bowl commercial spot to advertise shirts bearing a swastika for $25, and not long after, released a song titled "HEIL HITLER."
West's Attempted Apology
This past January, the "I Am A God" rapper tried to absolve himself for his yearslong history of antisemitism in the form of a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal, titled "To Those I've Hurt." In it, he said a traumatic brain injury he sustained in a 2002 car crash led to a later diagnosis with bipolar disorder, which he said eventually caused him to have "lost touch with reality," exercise "poor judgment" and engage in "reckless behavior." Despite the apology, the United Kingdom refused to issue him a visa for an April music festival while shows in France and Poland were also canceled, citing his history of antisemitic comments.
