Stephen Jackson has addressed those defending Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about his childhood friend George Floyd during Netflix’s The Roast of Kevin Hart.
“One thing about it, you can’t tell people what to be offended by and what not to be offended by,” Jackson said in a video shared on Instagram on Wednesday (May 13). “Everybody laughing until it’s their family member that gets murdered, then it ain’t funny.”
Travis Cains, spokesperson for The Gianna & George Floyd Foundation, told TMZ that the joke was “sad for culture.”
“We are trying to rebuild things for our community and make things better in our community,” Cains added. “Let's try to be a little bit more positive and not sit up there doing colon inspections by white comedians.”
Jackson reiterated his point that people will find humor in such a tasteless joke, unless the comedian is talking about someone from their own family. “It’s funny when it’s everybody else’s family member, and it’s cool when it’s everybody else’s family member,” he said. “But when it comes to your doorstep, you want everybody to feel a certain way.”
What may be more baffling about Hinchcliffe unnecessarily bringing up Floyd and the tragic circumstances of his murder during The Roast of Kevin Hart is that the comedian also mentioned him for no reason whatsoever in The Roast of Tom Brady two years ago.
Sources tell TMZ that Floyd’s family and friends were left “baffled and disgusted” by Hinchcliffe, whom they believe to be a “racist comedian” with an apparent obsession with making jokes about Floyd.
