Ben Shapiro Roasts Candace Owens (And We Are Rolling with Laughter) | WATCH
Ben Shapiro just turned Valentine’s into a bloodbath, roasting Candace Owens alive in his new Ben After Dark promo. The conservative media civil war just got deliciously vicious.
Ben Shapiro just served up a masterclass in conservative media shade, and Candace Owens is the main course.
In a blistering 48-second promo for the Season 2 premiere of his late-night show Ben After Dark, which dropped on Daily Wire+ this past Friday, Shapiro took dead aim at his former Daily Wire colleague with the kind of surgical takedown that’s become his signature. The clip opens with Shapiro doing his best mock-apology bit, circling back to Owens’ legendary pronunciation disasters: “compromentalize,” “architexture,” the whole greatest-hits reel he used to play on The Ben Shapiro Show for laughs.Then he lands the haymaker: “You were right… to use the hard R.
You are rrrrrrretarded.”
Boom. Mic drop.
Crowd goes wild.
It’s a direct callback to the nuclear meltdown of their March 2024 feud, the one where Owens went full conspiracy mode on Israel, “Jewish influence,” and Kanye-level rhetoric, got the boot from The Daily Wire, and spent the next two years painting Shapiro as the villain who ruined her life.
Candace has been radio silent so far. But her army is already mobilizing on X, calling it “pathetic,” “cringe,” and “proof Ben can’t move on.”
The conservative infighting has been ugly for years, Kirk’s assassination last fall only made the trenches deeper. But this is Shapiro reminding everyone why he’s still the king of the quick-draw comeback.
Ben After Dark Season 2 is now streaming on Daily Wire+.
If you’re into zero-chill conservative comedy after 10 p.m., you’re gonna want to watch this one on repeat.The war rages on. Pass the popcorn.
P.S. Shapiro is not the only one who was openly mocked Candace for her many embarassing mispronunciations. Another satirist who did it masterfully is L.E. Staiman. Also known as Lyle Culpepper (the king of savage Candace edits), Staiman dropped a 30-second masterclass in pronunciation torture. He took her real clips, the legendary “compromentalize,” “architexture,” “illegitimate” (she says “de-legitimatize”), and a few more, and “taught” her like a patient kindergarten teacher. The sarcasm was nuclear. It’s the video that basically invented the modern Candace mispronunciation meme.
In fact, this is the clip Ben Shapiro was directly nodding to in his Ben After Dark roast. Lyle’s been milking this vein for months, and this particular upload from late January 2026 went mega-viral (hundreds of thousands of views, still getting stitched daily).