Charlamagne tha God slams Dave Chappelle for saying he felt "better" after Charlie Kirk's assassination

On November 9, 2026, Charlamagne tha God played a short audio clip of Dave Chappelle on The Breakfast Club and responded to it directly. As reported by Fox News, the recording came from Dave Chappelle's performances at Madison Square Garden on November 6 and 7. Those dates closed the Karmageddon tour and opened the New York Comedy Festival. The venue had required phones to be locked away, yet the clip still surfaced online.

Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on September 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Tyler Robinson faces charges in the case, and a judge set the trial for June 21, 2028, according to HuffPost.

As reported by Fox News, Dave Chappelle told the crowd,

"I feel f----- up saying this. It's scary being a public speaker. And I mean, look, ever since that guy, Charlie Kirk, got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, but, I feel better."

He also described catching himself in a good mood while driving and then remembering why, as reported by the New York Post. After the clip finished on the radio show, Charlamagne the God spoke. As reported by Fox News, he said,

"I don't find the humor in people getting clapped, okay? Any of us can be shot, and I don't want anybody getting shot because somebody disagrees with their opinion. So yeah, you have the freedom to, you know, joke and talk about whatever you want to joke and talk about, but personally I don't want to deal with the energy of that. Like I don't wish stuff like that on my worst enemy."

As the outlet reported, he added that the portion of the set available in the clip sounded to him like a plain observation that Chappelle felt better after the killing rather than a finished joke. Erika Kirk posted on X on November 8 that treating political assassination as entertainment is "beyond disgusting," as HuffPost reported.

Dave Chappelle's remarks at Madison Square Garden

In the December 2025 Netflix special The Unstoppable, Dave Chappelle had already spoken about the assassination. He said seeing another public speaker killed left him shaken, and he rejected comparisons between Kirk and Martin Luther King Jr. as limited mostly to how each man died, as reported by Entertainment Weekly.

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As reported by AllHipHop, a separate moment in the recent Madison Square Garden set used phrasing close to an earlier Tony Hinchcliffe line about George Floyd. Chappelle suggested Kirk was looking upward and laughing so hard he could not breathe.

The Karmageddon tour ran from October 20 in Nashville through the two New York dates, with phones secured in pouches at every stop, according to Pollstar. As reported by the New York Post, no further dates or new special announcements tied to these comments have been released.

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