No one was supposed to see the videos of the comedian Dave Chappelle joking about the death of Charlie Kirk.

The comedian has a strict no-phones policy at his shows, but a few blurry clips emerged from his set at Madison Square Garden this weekend. Conservative commentators quickly condemned the bit. The next day, without naming Chappelle, Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, called comedians joking about her husband’s death “beyond disgusting” and decried a culture that uses the “destruction of a human life” as a “punchline.” Elon Musk declared Chappelle “just not funny anymore.”