Joe Concha bashes Dave Chappelle and liberal podcasters over Charlie Kirk comments: ‘Where’s the joke?’

Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha slammed comedian Dave Chappelle and the I’ve Had It podcast for using violent rhetoric when discussing Charlie Kirk’s death.“We are more embracing of, it seems on the Left anyway, assassination culture in this country,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends on Wednesday.Concha reacted to a clip of Chappelle’s Saturday performance in New York City, where the comedian faced backlash for his remarks about Kirk’s death. “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,” Chappelle said. Kirk, 31, was shot and killed while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University in Sept. 2025. Tyler Robinson, 22, was charged with murder.“Where’s the joke? Where’s the comedy here?” Concha said.“How do you root for a guy like this?” he continued.Radio host Charlamagne tha God also weighed in on Chappelle’s remarks, saying he did not support anyone being shot over their political opinions.“I don’t want anybody getting shot just because somebody disagrees with their opinion,” Charlamagne said Monday on The Breakfast Club podcast.Concha called out Chappelle, noting that he has two daughters and a son, and contrasting that with the devastating loss Kirk’s young children suffered when their father was taken from them.“How does that make you feel better, that this person was taken from this Earth in a brutal way?” Concha said.Concha also criticized I’ve Had It podcast hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan after they laughed while reading a joke about Kirk.“We’re digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again,” they read on Thursday while laughing.The segment in which they read the comment and laughed about it, however, seems to have been removed from the YouTube clip, as the video seems to jump between two clips as if it had been edited.“They are laughing uncontrollably to the point of tears for 25 seconds at the prospect of digging up Charlie Kirk and remurdering him again,” Concha said.The podcast has since lost several sponsors, including Cash App, according to Fox News.Welch and Sullivan issued an apology condemning gun violence.“Whatever our political differences, there is nothing funny about gun violence,” the statement on Instagram read.AGGRESSIVE RHETORIC AROUND ELON MUSK COULD LEAD TO ANOTHER ‘CHARLIE KIRK SITUATION’: JOE CONCHAConcha argued that civil discussion over political differences has been left behind.“If you disagree with someone, it’s no longer about debate, the things that Charlie embraced. It’s now, ‘Take them out in any way possible,’ including assassination,” Concha said.