Kevin Hart Roast

Na'im Lynn is sticking up for Kevin Hart amid the fallout from Tony Hinchcliffe's controversial roast jokes ... saying people are coming after the wrong guy.

We caught up with Na'im at LAX Thursday, and he told us critics upset that Kevin didn't publicly reprimand Tony during the roast should be directing that energy at Tony himself ... adding if you're gonna make a racial joke, it better be funny -- and Tony's joke absolutely wasn't.

As we reported, Hinchcliffe faced major backlash from fellow comics and George Floyd's family after making a joke about Floyd, along with cracks about lynching and the late husband of comedian Sheryl Underwood.

Tony Hinchcliffe is firing back at Chelsea Handler after she ripped him as a racist hack for telling a George Floyd joke at the Kevin Hart roast ... and he's calling her the c-word.

The comedian sounded off on Chelsea on his live podcast, "Kill Tony," saying Chelsea kept coming at him at the roast and "was a bit of a c***."

Tony says Chelsea got a lot of her facts wrong when trying to make jokes at his expense, and he says she didn't even write the material she read off a teleprompter at the roast.

Nikki Glaser had a problem with the George Floyd joke at the Kevin Hart roast, and it's got nothing to do with race ... she says it just wasn't funny.

The comedian shared her critique of some of her fellow roast masters during an interview at the American Music Awards ... saying Tony Hinchcliffe's joke felt forced and didn't land because it didn't make sense.

Nikki says comedians shouldn't steer clear of race ... but that doesn't mean they should just say controversial things simply for the sake of it.

Kevin Hart is in Tony Hinchcliffe's corner after the controversial comic was blasted for a George Floyd "joke" many believe to be racist during Kevin's roast ... and he wants people to quit beating him up for Tony's punchline.

As you know ... Hinchcliffe was torn apart by some comics and the family of George Floyd after he made a tasteless joke about Floyd, as well as quips about lynching and the suicide of comedian Sheryl Underwood's late husband.

Kevin disagrees with the haters, telling "The Breakfast Club" ... Tony is not a racist, and he was fine with the Floyd line in the context of a roast.

The only sick burns on Kevin Hart's mind now are sunburns ... because the comedian hit Las Vegas for a fun Memorial Day Weekend getaway with wife Eniko Hart just a couple weeks after getting torched during his Netflix roast special.

TMZ obtained video of Kevin and Eniko living it up Sunday at the Omnia Dayclub Las Vegas. The couple was first spotted leaving the Wynn before making their way over to Caesars Palace for a full on daytime bash.

DJ FISHER had the place going nuts with booming party tracks, drinks flowing nonstop, and crowds packed shoulder to shoulder under the scorching Vegas sun.

Chelsea Handler is going scorched earth on Shane Gillis and Tony Hinchcliffe ... saying their “racist” hackery was exactly what she expected at the recent roast of Kevin Hart.

CH unloaded on the comics when she dropped by Deon Cole’s "Funny Knowing You" podcast ... saying she was disgusted by their remarks, especially quips about lynching and Sheryl Underwood’s dead husband, who died by suicide.

Roast viewers could tell Chelsea was not a fan of either during the show ... and she came out guns blazing for both when it was her turn at the mic.

The "Love on the Spectrum" cast trolls Kevin Hart ... after they caught a stray during his Netflix roast last week.

After Kevin took a swipe at the Netflix hit show during a recent comedy bit, the cast decided they weren’t about to sit quietly ... instead, they lined up one-by-one to absolutely roast the comedian right back.

In the clip, the fan-favorite stars take turns clowning Kevin over everything from his height to his very public marriage drama, with one cast member jokingly asking Kevin what the secret is to "ruining a marriage."

Dani Bowman -- a star on the hit show "Love on the Spectrum" -- is calling out Dwayne Johnson and the TV show "Euphoria" for using the r-word liberally ... saying she feels disrespected.

We caught up with the reality TV personality at Gus & Andy's -- a popular bar & grill in the L.A. suburb Montrose Friday afternoon -- and we asked her about the ableist slur seemingly making a comeback in pop culture.

Bowman expresses her frustration with "Euphoria" first ... saying it's been disheartening to hear the word used so liberally in the first few episodes -- and arguing it's neither funny nor edgy.

Kevin Hart should've slammed the brakes on the roast -- like Will Smith did at the Oscars in 2022 -- after hearing Tony Hinchcliffe crack a George Floyd joke ... so says Floyd's brother.

Terrence Floyd sat down for an interview on "The Latest with Loren LoRosa"... and he was asked who should've stepped in to stop Hinchcliffe from mocking Floyd's murder by saying he was "looking up at us all, laughing so hard he can't breathe."

Floyd says his family was especially hurt by the joke because Hart attended Floyd's funeral in Minnesota back in the day ... and he feels Hart should've stepped up in the moment and cut Hinchcliffe off.

Tiffany Haddish had "so much fun" at the Kevin Hart roast on Sunday ... but we wanted to know how she felt about that controversial George Floyd joke.

Tiffany told us she was preoccupied, having to pee, and didn't catch it when Tony Hinchcliffe made a crack about Floyd -- who was killed in 2020 when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck until he couldn't breathe.

TH claims she didn't hear the joke, so she didn't comment on the controversial quip itself. But she did note that people who seem to be complaining are comedians who weren't invited to the show.

The fallout continues over a controversial George Floyd joke made by Tony Hinchcliffe at "The Roast of Kevin Hart" ... with fellow stand-up comic and actor Lil Rel calling the moment gross ... and shaming the crowd for not booing.

Lil Rel posted his thoughts to Instagram on Tuesday morning ... saying he found the moment so "disgusting," he wondered what he would have done had he been there ... but he's pretty sure he already knew.

If you didn't watch Sunday's live roast on Netflix ... Hinchcliffe proclaimed to Hart ... "The Black community is so proud of you… right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can't breathe."

'That-that don't kill him' can only make him stronger, it seems ... Kanye West sat stone-faced through Pete Davidson's set at the Kevin Hart roast on Sunday ... even when he was the butt of the joke.

ICYMI, Kim Kardashian's comedian ex took the stage at the Kia Forum in L.A. and fired a shot at Kim's other ex during a bit about Tony Hinchcliffe.

Pete said ... "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."

Well, TMZ obtained video of Ye's reaction to getting called out -- it happens right before Pete quips about Lizzo's weight loss -- and, as you can see, he looks pretty unbothered.

George Floyd's family and friends are appalled Tony Hinchcliffe was invited back for a Netflix roast and they're blaming Kevin Hart for allegedly giving Tony the green light to do another joke about George ... a joke they didn't find funny in the slightest.

Travis Cains, a spokesman for The Gianna and George Floyd Foundation, tells TMZ … Kevin condoning Tony's joke is "sad for the culture."

Tony was among the comedians roasting Kevin, and during his set he proclaimed ... "The Black community is so proud of you… right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can't breathe."

Pete Davidson is catching heat over a controversial joke aimed at slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk during "The Roast of Kevin Hart" ... and now one of Charlie's close friends says the whole thing left him seriously disgusted.

Andrew Kolvet -- a Turning Point USA producer -- said Monday he thought the joke was wildly distasteful considering Charlie was murdered in such a brutal and public way ... adding he physically cringed hearing it land during the Netflix special -- much like the audience's reaction inside the room.

During the roast, Pete was talking about fellow comic Tony Hinchcliffe when he dropped the line, "Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat," ... before adding, "Please somebody f***ing kill Tony" ... a reference to Hinchcliffe's own podcast, "Kill Tony."

Comedy veteran Sheryl Underwood says the surprise "r-word" joke from Dwayne Johnson during Netflix’s "The Roast of Kevin Hart" worked because roast comedy plays by a different set of rules ... and she says audiences understood the context.

Underwood stopped by "TMZ Live" on Monday and told us she thought The Rock’s appearance ultimately brought the room together ... especially after years of discourse surrounding his identity and public image.

Watch the video ... she tells us true roast comedy is not for the mainstream -- acknowledging that some viewers may bristle at moments, but roasts have always been built around pushing boundaries.