Kimmel's Benoit Burn Too Hot for TV

There is a line you can cross when roasting Flavor Flav -- and Jimmy Kimmel was the one who crossed it.
Jimmy Kimmel, Chris Benoit, Flavor Flav
During last night's four-letter fest in honor of the "Flavor of Love" star, Kimmel was poking fun at the fact that Flav has several children with several different women, when he said that "Chris Benoit is a better father than you." What, too soon?

A TMZ staffer who was at the roast (airing August 12 on Comedy Central) just happened to be sitting next to two censors for the network. When Kimmel made the crack, the censors looked at each other and laughed while shaking their heads "no." One immediately put down "Chris Benoit" on a list of jokes to cut. Another joke to make the list came at the end, when the Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, called the "Flavor of Love" girls sprinkled throughout the audience "nappy headed bitches."

C**t, c**ksucker and ni**a were fine -- but current events, ixnay?

Tags: Chris Benoit, ChrisBenoit, Flavor Flav, FlavorFlav, Jimmy Kimmel, JimmyKimmel

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76. those of you saying making a joke about a tragedy one week old are being stupid with that statement, people are still gonna be upset/offended whether the joke was 30 minutes after 30 days after or 30 years after, time has nothing to do with risque jokes. Also why is it that the joke is "too far" bcoz a child is involved, a woman was also involved , and a man was involved, a fan of benoit's an independent wrestler hung himself cuz he idolized benoit, age and gender duz NOT make this joke more/less offensive...equality remember! The incident was a tragedy but that duznt mean jokes about it shudnt happen, if people want to make those jokes then they shud feel free too, a sense of humour no matter how extreme is always a good thing, if u make a line here that benoit tragedy jokes rnt allowed then where duz that stop, no Nazi jokes?

Posted at 8:10PM on Sep 2nd 2007 by Glenn Turner

77. A pretty tastless comment. Actually I thought the entire show was tastless and not a bit funny, but I won't cry that I was offended. I got me this remote thing that changes the channel, and I'm not ascared to use it.

Posted at 1:36AM on Sep 16th 2007 by brokendown

78. Everyone needs to lighten up. In comedy, there is no limits..... especially at a roast.

This one cracked me up

Posted at 10:19AM on Oct 15th 2007 by Sean Steffen

79. It was at a roast, most jokes are tasteless. Who cares what he said?

Posted at 12:39PM on Oct 20th 2007 by TDawg

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