Charlie Kirk Show Producer Addresses Pete Davidson’s Joke

One of the producers of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast is speaking out after Pete Davidson made a brutal joke about the late political commentator.

“On today’s show, we discussed Pete Davidson’s joke about Charlie’s death while roasting Tony Hinchcliffe,” Blake Neff wrote via X on Monday, May 11, with a clip of the podcast. “My take: I didn’t like it, and I’m glad the audience wasn’t into it.”

During Kevin Hart‘s Sunday, May 10, Netflix roast, Davidson, 32, made headlines for his controversial joke about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“Tony is here looking like both a child molester and the doll they give the child to show where he touched them,” Davidson said, poking fun at fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. “Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat.”

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The former Saturday Night Live star kept the digs coming despite a seemingly surprised reaction from the audience.

“Oh, you don’t know me? Kill Tony. Please someone f***ing kill Tony,” he added. “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.”

When discussing the roast, Neff pointed out that he’s heard much worse jokes about his longtime friend and colleague.

“There are other ‘jokes’ we’ve seen that are clearly a lot more hateful in intent than Pete’s,” he explained, “and a few bad-taste jokes about Charlie are the price we have to pay for how iconic he has become in American culture.”

Kirk was fatally shot in September 2025 while speaking at Utah Valley University. The conservative commentator — survived by his wife, Erika Kirk, and their two young children — was 31.

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Since his death, Erika, 37, has taken on the role of chairwoman and CEO of Turning Point USA.

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“Every morning, I wake up to a new headline written about me. I have comedians dressing up in whiteface [and] I have people saying I’m not fit to be CEO and I have Candace Owens claiming I murdered my husband, and the list goes on and on and on,” she said in a video posted via X on April 29. “I am choosing to fight for America for my children, your children and our humanity. We all need to do our part, and by the grace of God, we will succeed and America will remain what she was always called to be: A shining city on a hill, a light to the world.”