NEWSTimothée Chalamet Blasted for 'Out of Line' Joke About Late President Jimmy Carter on 'SNL'
Timothee Chalamet was blasted for making a rude joke about late President Jimmy Carter during his time on 'SNL.'
Jan. 26 2025, Published 4:07 p.m. ET
Timothée Chalamet fans were not happy with him for making a rude joke about late President Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29, 2024.
In one sketch, the Wonka star, 29, played bungee instructor Nathaniel Latrine who was in charge of getting Heidi Gardner and her on-screen boyfriend Michael Longfellow into shape.
Timothée Chalamet made a joke about Jimmy Carter on 'SNL.'
While in character, Chalamet told the class to move around, mimicking flying and swimming before yelling: "Jimmy Carter!"
After the actors then appeared to go lifeless while dangling on their bungee cords, the audience appeared to gasp at the joke.
The former president died on December 29, 2024.
“Someone’s going to h--- for that one,” one person wrote about the bit, while another said, “Too soon.”
A third person said: “The Jimmy Carter bit was wild," while a fourth stated: "Out of line."
“Was funny until that Jimmy Carter line. Totally disrespectful and out of line. And yes I have a sense of humor and love the show but that was just horrible and too soon … I hope his family didn’t see that," another fumed.
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Jimmy Carter was 100 years old.
As OK! previously reported, Carter died at 100 years old almost one month ago.
"Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia," The Carter Center wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, at the time.
The actor hosted 'SNL' on January 25.
Carter's funeral was attended by several former presidents, including Barack Obama, George W. Bush, President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
"For decades, you could walk into Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia on some Sunday mornings and see hundreds of tourists from around the world crammed into the pews. And standing in front of them, asking with a wink if there were any visitors that morning, would be President Jimmy Carter — preparing to teach Sunday school, just like he had done for most of his adult life," Obama said about Carter's death.
He added, "Some who came to hear him speak were undoubtedly there because of what President Carter accomplished in his four years in the White House — the Camp David Accords he brokered that reshaped the Middle East; the work he did to diversify the federal judiciary, including nominating a pioneering women’s rights activist and lawyer named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the federal bench; the environmental reforms he put in place, becoming one of the first leaders in the world to recognize the problem of climate change."
He concluded, "Maranatha Baptist Church will be a little quieter on Sundays, but President Carter will never be far away — buried alongside Rosalynn next to a willow tree down the road, his memory calling all of us to heed our better angels. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to the Carter family, and everyone who loved and learned from this remarkable man."
