Hannah Berner In Hot Water Over Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce Joke

Comic Hannah Berner is dealing with intense backlash after making an “extraordinarily sexist” joke about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce throughout a current stand-up set.

Berner started her bit with a reference to Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with the homicide of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, poking enjoyable at how he’s “so scorching proper now.”

Nonetheless, Hannah Berner rapidly pivoted, drawing an surprising comparability between Luigi Mangione and Travis Kelce.

The footage, taken from Netflix’s “Torching 2024: A Roast of the 12 months,” reveals Berner making a joke about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce that many followers discovered offensive.

Berner quipped, “Who knew apart from Travis Kelce that you might develop into so widespread with ladies by capturing hundreds right into a billionaire?”

Swifties took to X, the social media platform previously generally known as Twitter, to precise their outrage after the “wildly inappropriate” clip of comic Hannah Berner went viral.

One Taylor Swift known as Berner’s joke “outright vile” for “objectifying” the pop icon.

One other claimed it was “degrading to Taylor.”

“The variety of folks defending this as a result of they really feel prefer it’s high-quality to say something you need a few wealthy movie star even when you would not dare say it about somebody you truly know. It is giving ‘there is a Taylor-shaped gap in folks’s ethics,'” one X consumer stated in response to the feedback from different social media customers.

“Oof. That’s such a nasty style joke,” one other famous.

“I actually favored her, however that is simply disappointing and never humorous in any respect,” a 3rd particular person admitted.

This is not the primary time Hannah Berner has confronted backlash for her jokes. Simply final week, the comic stirred controversy with one other comment from the identical Netflix roast, the place she referred to Blake Energetic as a “c-nt” within the midst of the actress’s ongoing drama with Justin Baldoni surrounding their movie adaptation of “It Ends With Us.”

On December 27, Berner addressed the backlash, clarifying that her set was filmed earlier than Energetic’s accusations in opposition to Baldoni made headlines.

“To be one hundred pc clear, I assist Blake xoxo,” the previous actuality TV star wrote on her Instagram Tales on the time.

As The Blast reported, Blake Lively has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit in opposition to Justin Baldoni, accusing him of fostering a “hostile work surroundings” on the set of their upcoming movie, “It Ends With Us.” Within the lawsuit, filed with the California Civil Rights Division, Energetic claims that Baldoni “ignored well-established business protocols in filming intimate scenes and exploited the dearth of controls on set to behave inappropriately.”

The 37-year-old actress alleges that Baldoni engaged in sexual misconduct throughout manufacturing, prompting a proper assembly to deal with her issues. Throughout this assembly, Baldoni and his manufacturing firm reportedly agreed to a number of of her calls for, together with:

• “No extra exhibiting nude movies or photos of ladies to Blake.”
• “No extra point out of Baldoni’s alleged earlier pornography habit.”
• “No extra discussions about sexual conquests in entrance of Blake and others.”

Moreover, Lively’s lawsuit claims that Baldoni employed disaster PR professional Melissa Nathan, recognized for her earlier work with Johnny Depp throughout his high-profile defamation trial in opposition to Amber Heard.

The lawsuit additionally accuses Baldoni of making an attempt to break Energetic’s popularity by a focused social media marketing campaign. The allegations have added important stress to the movie’s manufacturing and raised broader questions on on-set accountability and office security in Hollywood.

In August, a supply informed the Daily Mail that Blake Energetic had expressed issues in regards to the potential affect of the continued controversies surrounding “It Ends With Us” on her profession and popularity.

In keeping with the insider, Energetic had initially seen her function within the movie as “her second to shine,” a major alternative to showcase her expertise on a bigger scale. Nonetheless, she now fears that the unfavorable publicity surrounding the manufacturing might jeopardize her standing within the business and overshadow the movie’s success.

“Blake is certainly saddened by the hate she is getting and is attempting to not let it have an effect on her, however it’s,” the supply stated on the time. “She thought this was her second to shine, however is now it like the top of her profession. She’s fearing nobody will wish to work along with her after this.”

They added, “She actually desires to proceed producing and directing and appearing, however she is aware of she must take a step again for a minute to reassess the long run.”