Comedian Jeff Dye fired back after catching fellow performer Laura Kightlinger scrawling an insult across his Tesla, blasting her conduct as "inappropriate for a 60-year-old" woman.Dye took to X Monday, where he posted snapshots from video he said was captured by his Tesla’s security cameras showing a fellow comedian he’d performed with writing an insult in the fog on his windshield."Performed on a show with a comic I’ve never met.Her name is Laura Kightlinger @KingKightlinger.
She seemed nice enough.We didn’t talk and she left before I went up," Dye wrote, adding, "I’m assuming she didn’t know it was my Tesla she wrote ‘Douche’ on my Tesla.
Strange behavior for a 60-year-old adult.Look forward to working with you again."ROGAN TELLS ‘TRAITOR’ COMEDIANS CONDEMNING THE KEVIN HART ROAST TO ‘F--- ALL THE WAY OFF’Comedian Jeff Dye performs at the Stress Factory Comedy Club on June 18, 2026, in New Brunswick, N.J.
(Bobby Bank/Getty Images)The photos gained traction online, with over 440,000 views.Dye posted a follow-up noting that if he’d written something similar on her car, she would’ve spent the next 3 weeks talking about how ‘women are treated differently in Comedy,’ and how even in her own business she ‘doesn’t feel safe.’"Kightlinger is a writer and comedian, known for serving as a consulting producer on "Will & Grace" and for having several half-hour specials on Comedy Central and HBO.
She appeared to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for President in the 2016 U.S.presidential election.Dye is an outspoken conservative, and told Fox News Digital in December that he’s "always been more conservative than my comedic counterparts.
I've always been way more religious as far as like, I'm a Christian, so that's not a huge, popular thing in stand-up comedy.I was on the front lines in that way."Following Dye’s post on X, Kightlinger posted her side of the story and a photo of the word she wrote on the windshield alongside scre...