“Horrible timing.”

That’s how TMZ is explaining the sounds of laughter and cheering from its newsroom during a livestream just as the online tabloid was announcing the shooting death of Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.

TMZ founder Harvey Levin and executive producer Charles Latibeaudiere sheepishly apologized for the moment in a video posted online Thursday, denying that staff were reacting to news of Kirk’s death.

“We were livestreaming all day during this tragedy when something happened in our office,” Levin began.

“As we were reporting the assassination of Charlie Kirk there were some people in the back room away from our news desk here who were watching a car chase and they were laughing and they were clapping and you could hear it out here.

“We want to make a couple of things clear — o

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