A Netflix roast included jokes described as vile, including references to lynching and claims about George Floyd being in Hell. Chelsea Handler said the event went better than expected but criticized specific comedians’ material as lazy and offensive. She said Gillis and Hinchcliffe’s jokes about her were unfunny and that information from Gillis’ ex-girlfriends suggested patterns of racism, bigotry, and sexism. Handler characterized some white comedians as using racist material to attract certain audiences. She said jokes about lynching Black people were not comparable to acceptable roast humor and also criticized jokes about Sheryl Underwood’s dead husband, calling them disgusting.
"“I knew they would be lazy, because they do that for a living,” Handler said of Gillis' and Hinchcliffe's jokes about her. (Gillis called her a Zionist and referenced her meeting Jeffrey Epstein in 2010.) Handler went on to say that ahead of the roast, some of Gillis' ex-girlfriends had DM'd her and shared information about him."
"When pressed, Handler said, “It's just everything we know: That they're racist, that they're bigots, that they're sexist, that they think that they're invincible, that they've been cancelled for being... you know, Shane got fired from , but then was on years later... So what happened between those two events? So he believes-this is per one of his exes-that he's invincible. It's like, 'Doesn't matter. I can say anything I want.'”"
"“It was ick. It was gross,” Handler said of the material at the roast. “I don't find those jokes to be funny. Jokes about lynching Black people or... lynching is not a joke. That's worse than rape. You're not joking about rape, are you? Are you saying, 'I'm gonna go rape you?' You know you can't do that, but you can say lynching? I find that to be... I don't know. People are like 'it's a roast, you can go for it.' I'm like, you can go for it without being gross.”"
"“I find that to be gross, I found them making fun of Sheryl Underwood's dead husband who committed suicide... if she says she's fine with that, she's fine with that. I wasn't fine with that. I thought that was disgusting, too.”"
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