“Toxic As Sh*t”: Meek Mill Said It Best As The Backlash To Kevin Hart’s Netflix Roast Takes Over The Internet

If you needed one tweet to summarize The Roast of Kevin Hart, the man who closed the show gave it to you. Meek Mill walked off the Kia Forum stage Sunday night after performing “Dreams and Nightmares” as the final moment of the broadcast, and within hours he posted on X to give Kevin and Netflix their flowers and a warning in the same breath.

“S/o to Kevin hart and Netflix that roast was toxic as shit,” he wrote, followed by a tower of laughing emojis. The tweet went viral immediately. Black Twitter ran with it. It is now the unofficial title of the entire three hour broadcast.

S/o to Kevin hart and Netflix that roast was toxic as shit 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

— MeekMill (@MeekMill) May 11, 2026

The toxicity charge did not come from nowhere. Multiple separate flashpoints are still being argued across timelines as of Tuesday afternoon. Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about George Floyd has drawn a direct response from the Gianna and George Floyd Foundation, with spokesman Travis Cains telling TMZ that Kevin condoning the joke is sad for the culture. The Foundation specifically called out the fact that 12 year old Gianna Floyd is being bullied at school in part because of the way her father’s death has become a recurring punchline in white comedy circles.
Tony Hinchcliffe and host Shane Gillis also leaned into jokes about the suicide of Sheryl Underwood’s late husband, who died in 1990 after a battle with depression. Sheryl handled the jokes with grace from her seat and then walked on stage and out worked the entire dais, but viewers at home have been less forgiving. The clips are circulating with captions like “this was unnecessary” and “Sheryl deserved better.”

Pete Davidson is also taking heat from a different direction. His joke comparing Tony Hinchcliffe to the late Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in September 2025, drew immediate backlash online. Critics pointed out that comparing a comedian you do not like to a man who was murdered eight months ago is not actually a punchline. The bigger cultural argument is the one Black media has been making since the credits rolled. Shane Gillis, who was hired to host an event marketed as a celebration of Kevin Hart, opened by joking that Netflix had chosen him to host a “celebration of Black excellence” and proceeded to deliver jokes built on a slave ship in a bottle, a bonsai tree lynching reference, and several other lines that several Black writers covering the night described as edging up to the line and then jumping over it. He flirted with the n word multiple times. Sheryl Underwood reportedly warned him from her seat that finishing that word out loud would not end well for him.

This is the part Meek’s tweet captures so cleanly. The toxicity was not just the body shaming of Lizzo, the height jokes for Kevin, the absentee father bars, or the Diddy material. It was the structural choice to put Tony Hinchcliffe and Shane Gillis at the center of a roast for one of the biggest Black comedians of his generation, in a room full of Black women working three times as hard to handle the energy, while the cameras kept cutting to Kevin laughing along. The X reactions have been blunt. One user wrote “Katt left that building hating him even more.” Another wrote “I could never be a part of a roast. I’d be ready to fight 2 minutes in.” The vibe across the platform is somewhere between entertained and exhausted.

Defenders of the roast, including Sheryl Underwood herself in a TMZ interview the next day, have argued that roast comedy plays by a different set of rules and that audiences understand the context. That is a fair read for what happens inside the format. The Floyd Foundation, the Underwood discourse, and Meek Mill’s own tweet from a man who was inside the room as a performer suggest that the room understood it and the rest of us did too. Just because the rules of the genre allow something does not mean the genre needed to allow this much of it on a single night.

Kevin Hart has not commented yet on the specific controversies. Netflix has not commented on whether they would book Tony Hinchcliffe or Shane Gillis again. The Roast of Kevin Hart is now the most discussed live event of the Netflix is a Joke Fest, which is exactly what the streamer wanted. Meek’s tweet is the receipt the next time Netflix tries to book a roast like this without thinking about who is in the room.