Comedian Hannah Berner says she supports Blake Lively after calling her c-word in ill-timed Netflix roast
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Stand-up comedian Hannah Berner appeared on Netflix’s ‘Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year’. Stand-up comedian Hannah Berner has clarified that her recent joke about Blake Lively was filmed before the actor started legal proceedings against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni.
![[Comedian Hannah Berner and ‘It Ends With Us’ actor Blake Lively]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/20/MixCollage-27-Dec-2024-11-54-AM-5522.jpg)
Berner, 33, is one of the comedians who appears in Netflix’s new comedy special Torching 2024: A Roast of the Year, which was filmed at The Bellwether in Los Angeles on December 17. It is now available on the streaming service. During her set, Berner jokes: “The word ‘c***’ was trending this year. I don’t think Blake Lively was that bad.”.
![[Hannah Berner’s Instagram story on Friday, December 27]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/27/20/Screenshot-2024-12-27-at-2.47.45%E2%80%AFPM.jpg)
Lively, 37, was the subject of much bad press earlier in the year. This month she brought a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni that also alleged he had been behind a “smear campaign” intended to destroy her reputation. Rumours of an on-set feud had percolated online around the August release of It Ends With Us, an adaptation of the bestselling 2016 novel by Colleen Hoover.
![[Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/24/17/MixCollage-24-Dec-2024-09-58-AM-16.jpg)
Lively and Baldoni appeared to avoid each other during the film’s promotional tour. Lively was also called out for a “tone-deaf” approach to the movie, as some felt she failed to treat its heavy subject matter with the appropriate solemnity. The lawsuit states that after Lively first raised her claims of harassment during production, a meeting was held that was attended by individuals including Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, Baldoni and their lawyers.
