Ben Stiller pokes fun at RFK Jr. during Anti-Defamation League ‘Concert Against Hate’

Ben Stiller made a jibe at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as he hosted the Anti-Defamation League’s “Concert Against Hate.”

The “Meet the Fockers” star spearheaded the gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC Monday night.

Taking to the stage, Stiller, 58, told the crowd, “Tonight we’re going to battle hate with a healthy dose of hope.

Ben Stiller said he wanted the evening to “battle hate with a healthy dose of hope”. Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League
RFK Jr. joins President-elect Trump for a McDonalds meal on Trump Force One alongside Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and House Speaker Mike Johnson. He’s the pick for Health Secretary. Donald Trump Jr. / X

“This extraordinary organization and the brave people we’re honoring have all taught us that even in the darkest of times there is light.”

He then joked of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, “Tonight we’re going to raise the roof on the Kennedy Center before it’s renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Center for Animal Disposal!”

The joke seemed an apparent reference to how, in September, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it was investigating RFK Jr. after he allegedly cut off the head of a dead whale and took it home two decades ago.

Stiller, who is the producer of the hit Apple TV + show ”Severance,” was joined on stage by honoree, music honcho Scooter Braun, Holocaust survivor Rosette Goldstein alongside survivors of the Oct. 7th Hamas attack on the Nova Festival in Israel: Ofir Amir, Danielle Gelbaum, Tomer Meir and Danielle Dvir.

Grammy-nominated singer SIA told the crowd “We will dance again” before performing her hit, “Titanium.” Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League

The event was all the more pertinent in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, as Stiller noted, saying, “It’s a very tough time in the world right now, so much anxiety, uncertainty, so much hate in the world, anti-semitism is on the rise.

“In fact, I was worried about hosting this show — because people might realize I’m Jewish,” he wise-cracked.

“For 30 years I’ve been pretty discreet about my heritage, disappearing into a diverse array of characters like Chaz Tennenbaum, Ted Stroehmann, Josh Kovaks, Josh Srebnick, Matthew Myerwictz, Roger Greenberg, Ruben Feffer, Gaylord Focker, and Rabbi Jacob Schram.”

Nova festival survivors – from left to right – Tomer Meir, Danielle Gelbaum, and Daniel Dvir speak onstage at the ADL gala. Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League
October 7 survivor Ofir Amir presents music big wig Scooter Braun with an award at the ADL gala. Getty Images for Anti-Defamation League

To applause from the crowd, he added, “Derek Zoolander apparently changed his name.”

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