Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe speaks during a rally for Republican presidential nominee and former president Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, on Sunday in New York City.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a bad joke about Puerto Rico. Will the Trump campaign pay for it? | CBC Arts LoadedComedy reporter Hershal Pandya and Refinery29 Somos deputy director Raquel Reichard talk about comedy’s role in this year’s U.S. election. Tony Hinchcliffe, the popular comedian best known for his brand of offensive humour, caused a stir after speaking at a Trump rally recently — but not for reasons that the Republican party may have hoped for.
But the thing with a lot of these podcasters is, they tend to liken themselves to, like, nonpartisan freethinker types, right? The types who wouldn't go to a rally and support one political candidate over another because that's something that "sheep" would do, right? But Tony Hinchcliffe isn't so bothered by that idea. He's been vocally supporting Trump for at least as far back as 2017. He's been doing pro-Trump material on stage, and he likes to play the heel.
So, it was infuriating. So was the laughter, right? The joke got a lot of laughs, so it's clear this ideology runs very deep in this party. But the joke itself, I didn't actually think it was that funny. Like, it felt very random to me. It wasn't tied to a particular cultural moment, a news story or anything. It just wasn't good.
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