The Melania Joke Cut From Netflix's Kevin Hart Roast

by Ron DickerHuffPost Writer

A writer for this past Sunday’s Netflix roast of Kevin Hart revealed a joke about first lady Melania Trump that didn’t make the cut. And it might have brought down the house and incurred the wrath of the White House.

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The line’s first target was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, one of the roasters who’s perhaps best known for his “floating island of garbage” insult about Puerto Rico at a Madison Square Garden rally for Donald Trump in 2024.

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The withheld crack goes thusly: “Tony is like Melania: The only thing relevant about him is that he opened for Trump once.” Variety, which shared writer Madison Sinclair’s sidelined zingers, didn’t provide a reason for the omission.

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But the political climate for humor has reached a dark place in the Trump administration. The first lady’s supposed outrage over a joke told by Jimmy Kimmel about her being an “expectant widow” ― days before an alleged assassination attempt ― prompted the president to renew his bid to have Kimmel removed for telling jokes he doesn’t like.

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The Netflix roast did air a shocking jab at Hinchcliffe by Pete Davidson, who quipped: “Tony reminds me of Charlie Kirk, in that he’s definitely been on camera letting a guy unload in his throat.” Kirk, a right-wing activist, was seen bleeding from the neck after being fatally shot in 2025.

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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

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