Embarrassing woke comedian and former Daily Show host Trevor Noah sparked major controversy during a Comedy Cellar set by calling Charlie Kirk’s September 2025 assassination “incongruously funny.”
For context, he defended joking about the irony of being shot while speaking about gun rights, and argued that comedians must be allowed to find humor in tragedy. However, conservatives were rightfully enraged by his callous comments and took to social media to express their anger.
In any case, Krik was in fact speaking about guns before he was killed. A member of the crowd asked, “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” Firing back, he replied, “Counting or not counting gang violence?” just moments before he was shot.
Using this tragedy as a senseless opportunity to advance his career. Noah used this moment in a recent comedy set. “The guy was shot while defending guns. Do you understand how — I’m not even writing that as a joke — as a human, you have to admit that is an incongruous funny thing that happens,” the woke comedian claimed.
Still not done, he kept going, saying, “You are there. You’re onstage, like, ‘Let me tell you why people should have guns.’ Wa-pow! Meanwhile, here, comedians are s—-ing themselves. ‘Don’t say anything about Charlie Kirk.’ ‘I wasn’t going say anything about him.’ ‘Yeah, but don’t say anything about Charlie.’ ‘I wasn’t going to say anything about Charlie Kirk.’ ‘But don’t. There’s nothing funny about it.”
Pulling back slightly, he clarified, “To me, it’s like, ‘Someone got shot.’ It’s not great. I didn’t wish for it. But now you can’t, like, terrorize your population if they dare to say something about the thing. Do you know what I mean? This is the same country where people make jokes about Abraham Lincoln being shot.”
When these comments hit social media, conservatives were enraged by the heartless remarks. “What a piece of garbage. Former “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah said he found it “funny” that Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while defending guns at a speaking event at Utah Valley University last month,” one tweet noted.
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Similarly, Royce White, a Republican running for senator in Minnesota, said, “Trevor Noah has always been a woke little fruitcake. More Charlie Kirk assassination jokes… And to claim ‘it’s just a joke’, but if you made a joke about the LGBTQ you got canceled. Let alone Covid or anything else… GTFOH, Democrats should be offended their political interlocutors think they’re that stupid. ”
One popular female conservative echoed these points. “Trevor Noah says it’s ‘funny’ that Charlie Kirk got shot while defending guns Former ‘Daily Show’ host argued telling jokes in incongruous situations is ‘literally what comedians do’ despite controversy. No, Trevor, that’s NOT what comedians do, only DEMONIC ONES! You’re just NOT FUNNY,” the powerful message declared.
Rounding out the condemnations, another conservative posted, “Trevor Noah is scum. He thinks it’s funny that Charlie Kirk was assassinated while defending the Second Amendment. He has never been funny. He was the Daily Show’s DEI hire and ran it into the ground.”