Sick Charlie Kirk Joke Blew Up on Two Liberal Podcasters and What They Said Next Is Worse
Charlie Kirk was murdered on a Utah college campus 14 months ago, and his widow is raising their two little kids without him.
Last week two left-wing podcasters thought a joke about his death was hilarious.
And that sick Charlie Kirk joke blew up in their faces before they found a way to make it worse.
The Post That Had Two Grown Women in Tears
Jennifer Welch co-hosts the left-wing podcast I've Had It with Angie Sullivan.
On a November 5 episode titled "Drinking MAGA Tears," the pair were celebrating Democrat election wins by reading posts from their side of the internet.
Then Welch read this one: "We're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again."
Both women cracked up and kept laughing for more than 20 seconds.
A producer chimed in, "I'm zooming in for Fox."
Welch's response was "No comment. No comment on that," and the laughing kept going.
For good measure, the hosts called Kirk's accused killer, Tyler Robinson, "a MAGA person" from a "white MAGA family."
Robinson wasn't even registered with a political party.
Cash App and Chewy Pulled the Plug First
The clip hit the internet, and corporate America did something it rarely does to the left.
It walked away.
Cash App posted on X: "We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast."
Chewy announced it does "not sponsor or support the 'I've Had It' podcast."
Boll & Branch said it would not advertise with Welch in the future.
Life insurer Ethos said what was said on the show "doesn't reflect our values, and we don't condone violence in any form."
Lola Blankets, Zenni, NOBL Travel, Jones Road Beauty, and apparel brand PAKA were also reported to be out.
By Sunday, Turning Point USA spokesman Andrew Kolvet put the count at 16 brands.
The Apology Lasted About a Day
On Saturday, Welch and Sullivan posted an apology on Instagram.
"On Thursday's show, we laughed at a joke about Charlie Kirk," they wrote. "It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed."
They said they donated to Everytown for Gun Safety – a gun-control group – to make amends for laughing about a man who spent his life defending the Second Amendment.
RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan wasn't buying it, saying he didn't believe the hosts were sorry.
He was right.
Welch Told Turning Point to Get Lost on Sunday
By Sunday afternoon, the sorry act was over.
Welch claimed Turning Point was picking a fight "because they want to prove to their donors, 'We can cancel libs.'"
Then she went after Kolvet by name: "Andrew, we're never ever going to sit down and listen to you."
Her parting message to Kirk's organization, cleaned up for a family audience, was "F*** off. F*** all the way off."
Sullivan piled on: "We're toxic, Andrew? I don't think so. That's the difference between us and you."
And Welch delivered the line of the week: "At Turning Point, you all laugh at violence all the time."
She said that three days after cackling at a joke about digging up a murdered man.
Welch Has Been Swinging at the Kirk Family for Months
None of this came out of nowhere.
In an October profile in The Atlantic promoting her book, Welch called Kirk's widow, Erika, an "absolute grifter."
In the same piece, she described the MAGA movement as an "anti-family, pro-pedophilia death cult."
Welch Wrote the Boycott Playbook Herself
The part that should make every conservative grin is this.
Last Christmas Eve, Welch was caught on video calling for boycotts of Paramount, its sponsors, Bank of America, and journalist Bari Weiss.
Boycotts were fine when she was the one organizing them.
Now the brands are leaving her, and suddenly it's a donor-funded plot to "cancel libs."
Free speech means Welch can laugh at whatever she wants on her own microphone.
It also means Cash App, Chewy, and every mom shopping for dog food get to decide they don't want any part of it.
That's not cancel culture.
That's a free market doing exactly what it's supposed to do.
Charlie Kirk built Turning Point on the idea that young Americans should hear both sides and argue it out in the open.
He spent his last afternoon doing exactly that, under a tent on a college campus, taking questions from students who disagreed with him.
When the shot rang out, he was answering a student's question about mass shootings.
The women who laughed about his death think a check to a gun-control group squares the account.
Sixteen brands just told them it doesn't.
Sources:
- Mariane Angela, "Democrat Podcasters Apologize for Charlie Kirk 'Dig Up' Joke, Donate to Gun Control Group," Breitbart, November 7, 2026.
- John Sexton, "Jennifer Welch Finally Goes Too Far for Advertisers," Hot Air, November 7, 2026.
- Rusty Weiss, "Liberal Podcasters Forced to Apologize Over Charlie Kirk Joke – But The Bad News Keeps Coming," RedState, November 8, 2026.
- Jennifer Bowers Bahney, "Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan Have a Message For TPUSA," Mediaite, November 8, 2026.
- Benjamin Lindsay, "'I've Had It' Podcasters Apologize for 'Insensitive' Charlie Kirk Joke as Advertisers Cut Ties," TheWrap, November 7, 2026.
