Chelsea Handler is finally offering up her opinion on the months-old controversy surrounding Kevin Hart and–surprise!–she’s totally on his side.
During last night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, a caller asked the 44-year-old comedian about the whole Hart “debacle” and whether she thinks comedians should be held accountable for their past material.
“I don’t think so,” Handler replied, to the surprise of no one. “I mean, I honestly respect what Kevin Hart did. I love Kevin. I know him personally, and I think he’s a great guy. And I honestly think we’ve all made mistakes.”
Keep in mind, this is coming from a woman who herself has made a number of homophobic and transphobic wisecracks and slurs, including just last October.
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Acknowledging some of her past material, Handler admitted that she’s “said things that are deplorable that I would never say again.”
But that’s just “comedy,” right? Right?!
“You can’t just hold people to the fire for things that went on–we all evolve, we all grow up, we get it now, we understand, this isn’t allowed,” she added.
Hmmm.
Watch. Or don’t.
DCguy
Celebrity or wealth is it’s own community. That’s why you had people like Jodie Foster rabidly defending people like Mel Gibson or Whoopie Goldberg defending Roman Polanski.
Once you’re in that celebrity club, to them it seems that is more important that race, gender, or sexuality.
youarederanged
Yes, all celebrities are evil and anti-gay. Who else should we hate?
Black Pegasus
So I guess we’re not gonna talk about how Andy Cohen just gave Chelsea a pass while lowkey defending Kevin Hart himself.
All of these people disgusts me.
Aztec Warrior DNA
Same, brother.
DCguy
Remember, Docle and Gabbana were boycotted because of multiple homophobic comments by one of the owners. Andy Cohen not only didn’t boycott, but he wore an entire D&G outfit to the Met Gala and when asked about it refused to answer only saying he had come to his own decision.
Cohen is fine using his being gay as a marketing tool, but is in no way loyal to the LGBT community.
youarederanged
@DCguy
You literally won’t be satisfied until you’ve turned everyone into an enemy. Andy Cohen is not loyal to the gay community? You are insane. Truly. Andy Cohen has done more for the gay community than you could ever dream of doing. Countless Americans have learned to accept gays because of his example and charisma. He is adored by many gays, but more importantly, he’s adored by many straights, which only helps our community. Your hatred for anyone and everyone who doesn’t follow your narrow path is psychotic. Thankfully your only platform is the comments section. Your hate, rigid mind, and complete lack of humor would make more people hate gays if you had a public platform. Keep hating, hater.
Kieran
What a despicable dipshit Chelsea Handler is.
iamru2
That hag is bat chit crazy and in the words of the great Lana Del Rey “I f*ched my way to the top”!
tuckerj574
First, the headline is very misleading. She didn’t say she respected him making homophobic jokes, she respected his apology, I think that’s pretty clear. If you are going to report stories then make an effort to do it respectfully instead of in a way that incites outrage. Secondly, he apologized, in a very respectful way. Allow him the opportunity to show prove that. He isn’t a bad guy, he made some bad decisions. And last, Chelsea is a big ally for our community as well as many others. I think it should be abundantly clear that the jokes she makes are in jest. It’s the jobs of comedians to make us laugh. Different things are funny to different people. Just because you don’t find it funny doesn’t mean she should be raked across the coals. Use that energy to fight the people fighting us. Not the ones helping us.
youarederanged
How dare you be reasonable! Don’t you know? We are here to hate everyone, even famous gays. Hatred is the new comedy.
funpitt412
Here we go again. If you are a crazy liberal you can pick and choose who should be forgiven. Forgive Kevin Hart and not Forgive Roseanne Barr. So many Hypocrites! Chelsea Handler please go away you are not funny anymore.
Chrisk
What the hell are you talkin about. Roseanne Barr never apologized. She blamed hey stupid tweet on Ambien as I recall. Plus it’s something she did recently.
DCguy
Oh look, the anti-LGBT account wants to deflect from the actual topic so it cam pretend bigots are victims.
truthseeker
@DCguy
He’s not wrong though. You’ve defended Joy Reid’s homophobia by deflecting from the actual topic in the past
DCguy
@truthseeker
What a shock, ANOTHER one of the anti-LGBT accounts tries to back up the first one deflecting topics.
And by the way sweetie, if you’re going to make a claim of anything I’ve done, feel free to put up a link. Oh wait, that’s right, you can’t, it’s a lie.
truthseeker
DCguy (formerly known as Cam when having multiple accounts on here) knows that the Queerty comment section doesn’t allow you to post links but it’s not hard to search for since there is only 1 Joy Reid story on here.
@DCguy
Are you saying that you are against the homophobic slurs and jokes Joy Reid posted on her former blog?
youarederanged
@truthseeker
He has accused me of supporting people I never have, attacking people I never have, and many other completely made up attacks. He’s not looking for proof. He’s just here to spew hate.
Wicked Dickie
So has Sarah Silverman. So has Amy Schumer. So has Kathy Griffin. So has Roseanne Barr. So has George Carlin. So has Andrew Dice Clay. So has Jerry Lewis.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Once again Andy Cohen proves beyond a doubt he is a doucheflag…..
Aztec Warrior DNA
This is still in question?
jorgecruz
Is she didn’t screw the president of the E network, no one would even know her name. She would still be driving away customers at some crappy comedy club in the middle of who-cares.
one more thing
From the photo of her in the sun hat I would guess she is 65….but 44? Who is she kidding?
Dez
No, it IS allowed Chelsea- you’re just going to be called out for the piece of shit that you are.
youarederanged
I can’t stand her, and I don’t think Kevin Hart is funny, but there is nothing more boring than going into a tizzy over straights making gay jokes. Comedians are here to shock, say f’ed up things, and make people uncomfortable. The fact that we take the position that only our kind can make fun of us is weak. We’re great targets for comedy, and being open to it and laughing along with them would do way more for our community than being the victims we currently are. Laugh a little. Or don’t. But don’t take the rest of us down with your intolerance of straight-perspective comedy. We’re so uptight these days!
DCguy
What a shock, the SAME account that attacks LGBTs and claims bigots are victims likes gay jokes.
youarederanged
Not true, and not true. But I do like gay jokes. Ever heard any gay comedians or been to a drag comedy show? Lots of gay jokes there.
DCguy
Aww, sweetie, just like you try to hide anti-LGBT bigotry behind the words “Different Opinion”, you try to pretend Anti-LGBT jokes are cool.
Look, we get it, you are here to defend bigotry and hate against LGBT people, your continual support of Trump and attacks on any victim of bigotry have already shown that.
truthseeker
@DCguy
You said that when Joy Reid would mock men and say they might be secretly gay via homophobic jokes on her website that it’s okay because some, not all, of the people she was mocking had different opinions than you
Why are anti-LGBT jokes okay for you with Joy Reid but not with people you don’t like? Seems hypocritical
youarederanged
So gays making gay jokes are now anti-gay? Or any straight comedian who says a gay joke is anti-gay? Comedians have long been an ally of our community. Your need to turn everyone into an enemy is just weird.
Morrisson
If she lay on her side her mouth wood look like a p*ssy.
wizbang_fl
Handler is the stereotypical straight blond(ish) social climber who says whatever she wants to your face then talks smack about you behind your back. I noticed a number of co-hosts from her time on network tv are no longer with her. I don’t blame them because she always was a buzzkill when it came to most of her interviews. I stopped watching her when she did an interview with Sia where they both had their back to the audience the entire time of the interview talk about stupid.