Michael Che blasts Roast of Kevin Hart's white writers

Michael Che has called out The Roast of Kevin Hart for jokes about "slavery", "sex crimes" and "slurs".

The 42-year-old Saturday Night Live star didn't appear at the live Netflix event over the weekend, but he has noted a difference in style between the subject matter for white and black people.

Taking to Instagram, he wrote: "White guys and Black people joke different.

"Black guy roast like, ‘look at this n**** shoes!’

"White roasts are like, ‘Slavery, math, slain teens, sex crimes, slurs, family secrets.’ White guys don’t give a f*** about they shoes.”

In a later post, he highlighted the number of white writers involved with Sunday's (11.05.26) roast.

He quipped: "Lets do a roast celebrating the career of the most successful black comic in the last 10 year.

"I love that! who should we get to write it?"

The next slide of his post was a photo of some of the white writers involved, including Nick Mullen, J.P. McDade, Mike Lawrence, Dan St. Germain, and Zac Amico.

The telecast did feature 17 credited writers, several of whom are black.

While he didn't name any comics, there were a number of edgy jokes made during the roast.

Shane Gillis referenced slavery and lynching in jokes about Kevin Hart's height, while Tony Hinchcliffe was criticised online for a joke about George Floyd.

Meanwhile, Variety has responded that Michael was actually set to appear on the roast himself, but scheduling conflicts with SNL meant he wasn't available.

Comedian Jeff Ross, who was part of the lineup, has insisted nothing was "off limits" for the performance on the night.

He told the same outlet: "People always ask what’s off limits, what’s not off limits. Kevin never once said to me, 'Please don’t do this, please don’t do that.'

"For me, there’s a sportsmanship to it — I want to scratch the skin, but I don’t want to break it. Nothing was off limits. I don’t think there was a single topic from Kevin’s life that didn’t get brought up.

"It’s really just a question of how overt you want to be. Do you want to be subtle, or do you want to smash them over the head with a dollhouse? I don’t know how anyone could look at the roast and call it watered down."