Host Shane Gillis speaks onstage during Netflix Is A Joke Festival Presents: The Roast of Kevin Hart at The Kia Forum on May 10, 2026 in Inglewood, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/ for Netflix) Shane Gillis recently was recently part of the Netflix Roast of Kevin Hart.

Chelsea Handler and Shane Gillis sparked backlash after controversial Epstein and Zionism jokes during Kevin Hart's Netflix roast.

The insults were flying at Netflix's star-studded The Roast of Kevin Hart on Sunday night, and things really went up a level when Shane Gillis introduced Chelsea Handler ahead of her set. Gillis said that Handler is a "Zionist,

The pair sparred with some deeply personal jabs during Netflix’s Roast of Kevin Hart on Sunday night. The post ‘Speaking of Dead Kids’: Shane Gillis and Chelsea Handler Clash on Israel and Epstein at Netflix Roast of Kevin Hart first appeared on Mediaite.

Roast turns personal: Shane Gillis targeted Chelsea Handler’s politics, abortion stance, and past Epstein dinner, sparking a fiery onstage exchange. Handler’s sharp rebuttal: Handler hit back by correcting Gillis on Zionism and mocking the racist slurs ...

Hosted by Shane Gillis, Sunday night’s (May 10) roast welcomed a slew of comedians, athletes, and A-listers to rag on Kevin Hart —and each other— including Underwood, Tony Hinchcliffe, Chelsea Handler, and Katt Williams. Among those targeted by Gillis during his time at the mic was Underwood, whose husband died by suicide in 1990.

In 2017, Hart became embroiled in a public cheating scandal after footage of him with model Montia Sabbag in Las Vegas was allegedly used in an extortion attempt. The comedian later issued a public apology to his wife, Eniko Hart — who was pregnant at the time of the affair — admitting he had made a “bad error in judgment.”

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