{"id":663568,"date":"2026-05-12T02:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663568\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:55:10","slug":"george-floyds-family-rips-tony-hinchcliffe-kevin-hart-over-roast-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663568\/","title":{"rendered":"George Floyd&#8217;s Family Rips Tony Hinchcliffe, Kevin Hart Over &#8216;Roast&#8217; Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          George Floyd<br \/>\n                          Fam Rips Tony, Kevin Over Yet Another &#8216;Roast&#8217; Joke<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              May 11, 2026<br \/>\n                            5:57 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260511_4aa9b693e1af414da2c12fdd9d92a5d7\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e068cb00-27fe-4893-beff-033b757e0746\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4aa9b693e1af414da2c12fdd9d92a5d7_md.jpg\" alt=\"kevin hart george floyd getty comp\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Floyd&#8217;s family and friends are appalled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tony-hinchcliffe\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hinchcliffe<\/a> was invited back for a Netflix roast and they&#8217;re blaming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/kevin-hart\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Hart<\/a> for allegedly giving Tony the green light to do another joke about George &#8230; a joke they didn&#8217;t find funny in the slightest.<\/p>\n<p>Travis Cains, a spokesman for The Gianna and\u00a0George Floyd Foundation, tells TMZ \u2026 Kevin condoning Tony&#8217;s joke is &#8220;sad for the culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      Tony Hinchcliffe made a WILD George Floyd joke while roasting Kevin Hart \ud83d\udc80<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Black community is so proud of you\u2026 right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can\u2019t breathe.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/33T2anzhja\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/33T2anzhja<\/a><br \/>\n              <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KillaKreww\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@KillaKreww<\/a>\n          <\/p>\n<p>Tony was among the comedians roasting Kevin, and during his set he proclaimed &#8230; &#8220;The Black community is so proud of you\u2026 right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can&#8217;t breathe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told George&#8217;s family and friends feels like Kevin should&#8217;ve told Tony to stay off that topic if nothing else &#8230; and they&#8217;re baffled and disgusted by Tony&#8217;s apparent obsession with telling George Floyd jokes.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260510_52da4a2bdc684e7482672b0527122483\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e068cb00-27fe-4893-beff-033b757e0746\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/52da4a2bdc684e7482672b0527122483_md.jpg\" alt=\"kevin hart getty 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/rob-gronkowski\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brady<\/a> roast, Tony joked that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/rob-gronkowski\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Gronkowski<\/a> &#8220;looked like the final boss in George Floyd the video game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>George&#8217;s daughter, Gianna, is 12 years old now &#8212; she was only 6 when he died &#8212; and the foundation says she&#8217;s being bullied in school &#8230; so it sounds like the jokes aren&#8217;t helping.<\/p>\n<p>      <a id=\"gallery-link-cd933f99-5e41-4fee-9f24-57466141bbc2\" class=\"media-link gallery-block__link js-track-link js-click-gallery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/photos\/2020\/05\/27\/remembering-george-floyd\/\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:gallery:cd933f99-5e41-4fee-9f24-57466141bbc2\" data-context=\"{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;gallery-block&quot;,&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;}\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:e068cb00-27fe-4893-beff-033b757e0746\" data-gallery-layout=\"carousel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9b94e88f791841aaab251482f95ec986_md.png\" alt=\"Remembering George Floyd\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid gallery-block__img-fluid img-aspect-4by3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re told George&#8217;s family and friends feel Tony is a &#8220;racist comedian&#8221; &#8230; and they&#8217;re wondering how Kevin would feel about these jokes if &#8220;one of his friends&#8221; died instead of George.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line from the foundation &#8230; &#8220;We are trying to rebuild things for our community and make things better in our community. Let&#8217;s try to be a little bit more positive and not sit up there doing colon inspections by white comedians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Floyd Fam Rips Tony, Kevin Over Yet Another &#8216;Roast&#8217; Joke Published May 11, 2026 5:57 PM PDT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-663568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}