Comedian slammed for crass joke comparing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to Luigi Mangione
Comedian Hannah Brenner has sparked outrage online for a crude joke that compared Travis Kelce’s relationship with Taylor Swift to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Luigi Mangione is behind bars in Brooklyn after being charged with Thompson’s murder, but the 26-year-old has amassed an unlikely online fanbase through his actions.
Brenner, who appeared in the Netflix special “Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year,” joked that she is one of Mangione’s admirers, saying, “Luigi is so hot right now.
“Who would have thought, besides Travis Kelce, that you could become so popular with women by shooting loads at a billionaire?”
The live audience in the clip can be heard both groaning and laughing, and there were plenty of fans online who didn’t appreciate the joke.
“Not to be too woke, but that was super inappropriate,” one fan wrote while sharing the clip.
Travis Kelce was compared to Luigi Mangione by a comedian for dating Taylor Swift
Mangione is in jail, charged with the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
“I really liked her but this is just disappointing and not funny at all,” said another.
Another response to the joke read, “I also just feel like in order for an inappropriate joke to land, it has to be actually funny.”
Another response read: “People love to reduce Taylor to the men in her life, but it’s so disgusting to make this about her as a sexual object.”
Kelce and Swift began their relationship in September 2023, when she saw him play for the Kansas City Chiefs against the Chicago Bears at Arrowhead Stadium with his mother Donna.
Most recently, they were photographed together in New York after Kelce played for the Chiefs against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Christmas Day.
Swift will likely spend much of January in Kansas City as Kelce and the Chiefs increase their bid for the Super Bowl title in the NFL playoffs. Their first match is the weekend of January 18-19.
Mangione, meanwhile, pleaded not guilty to murder and terror charges in a New York City court in December.
He was arrested in early December in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after Thompson was shot while walking to a Manhattan hotel for an investor conference.