Two hours before Donald Trump was set to take the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City, right-wing comedian Tony Hinchcliffe warmed up the crowd with a shockingly racist performance.
“Where are my proud Latinos at tonight?” Hinchcliffe asked the packed arena, eliciting scattered loud cheers. “You guys see what I mean? [The border’s] wide open. There’s so many of them.”
“These Latinos, they love making babies, too,” he added. “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside just like they did to our country.”
The crowd groaned and cheered as Hinchcliffe continued, saying, “Republicans are the party with a good sense of humor.”
This guy: “[You] Latinos are invading our country and breeding us white people out of the majority… hahaha, no, no. I kid, I kid! But no really, in all seriousness, you do do that, and it’s a big fucking problem. We need a president who will put a stop to it and kick you all out like the vermin you are. Now laugh you fucking cockroaches. It’s funny because it’s true. We Republicans are truly the masters of comedy. Hurdurdurr.”
Know your audience?
You can’t even say he knows his audience because not that many people were actually laughing. Dude is so unfunny he couldn’t even get a Trump crowd up laugh at racist jokes.
Play to your crowd. It’s not shocking or unexpected for anyone unfortunate enough to know who this goon is. Part of that super unfunny punch down set that followed rogain from liberal California to…checks notes…the most liberal city in Texas, Austin.
I Imagine austinites hate these people lol. I know the conservatives that move to liberal cities in Ohio are very hated.
Yes, but they are rich, they won’t sully themselves living amongst country folk. Everywhere you see rural wealth are just isolated enclaves of rich people from liberal cities.
How did he get a job opening for Trump? I thought they hated the gays.
He’s one of the guys who regularly blows Rogan, so of course he’s a piece of shit, racist trumper. By the way dude, you don’t get say people have no humor. It’s the people you were making jokes about that get to say if those jokes were racist or not, and we say they were.
They’ll take self hating members of any group except trans people
I thought he wasn’t actually gay?
He isn’t? Could have fooled me.
They do it so that they can prove that they “welcome everyone”
Oh hey, a consistently relevant topic:
Why is conservative comedy so weird? (The Schneidecker Paradox) - Maggie Mae Fish
gabi belle also has a video on conservative “comedy”. Love her stuff. Speaks from a pov beyond her years.
Maggie Mae Fish is a treasure. I wish she would make more videos more often.
(If you like her, I also recommend My Friends Call Me Pat.)
I watched the set. Honestly… it was so bad and blatant and distasteful it’s almost like a sabotage job. I’m not saying it’s true, as Hinchcliffe seems like a shitty person in general. BUT. If he was a different comedian, I could almost see this as a really devious way of undermining and exposing the racism of Trump Republicans. Targeting Hispanics multiple times right before an election that’s on a razor’s edge? Specifically targeting Puerto Ricans, who have large representation in Pennsylvania?
It seemed weird that he was specifically unwilling to say he’ll vote for Trump. He implied it and talked around it, but he didn’t say he would. He hid behind the idea that as an entertainer, it would be bad for him. And yet, there’s no way it would be bad for him while literally opening a Trump rally, so it seemed like a weird choice that really stuck out to me.
For anyone else watching it, didn’t it almost seem like satire? Like he was trying to get them to laugh about awful shit in a way that would make them all look bad? I find it highly unlikely that’s what he intended (though it is what he did), but that refusal to actually say he’s voting for Trump really stuck out to me.
I think you’re giving Tony way too much credit. This is exactly the type of shit he says on his show, it just has a much different impact at a political rally
He’s giving strong weird relative at a family dinner table vibes by saying offensive things and then trying to ease the situation by saying “it’s just a joke, relax, you can’t take a joke!?” There’s a big difference between being funny and being an attention seeker.
Omg, the belt buckle alone makes me dislike him.
The 1% don’t want to pay taxes or fair wages, somebody else’s race isn’t what’s causing that.
The culture war is all bullshit and distraction, the only thing that matters is taxing the richest and putting that money towards creating less fragile and sustainable communities and economies.
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Next they’ll start lining them up to shame them…
🎶Are there any queers in the theatre tonight?
Get 'em up against the wall
Now there’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me
Get him up against the wall
And that one looks Jewish and that one’s a coon
Who let all this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint and another with spots
The whole movie and album is becoming increasingly relevant
I made an off-hand comment to someone recently about how they needed to remember that these fascists would make him the first against the wall, and he asked me what that meant… and I became so uncomfortable, realizing how sheltered he was.
I don’t understand how we got here. I don’t understand how people are so… unaware of how easy it is, and how close they are to danger.
We got here because we let billionaires control the flow of information - and by extension, our thought processes. Among the ‘3 kinds of pigs’, remember which is the first kind?
Would you like to see Britannia rule again?
Would you like to send our colored cousins home again?
Isn’t this the same guy that said some off color stuff while roasting Tom Brady? That guy’s name was Tony, and it was pretty heinous at times.
Yeah, he got famous after that roast I think. Now he has a show called Kill Tony that is based at Rogan’s Austin club. People who like that group of comics think he’s good. I haven’t listened to his show myself.
Not that it matters much, but Kill Tony has been around since 2013 according to the asshole’s Wikipedia page.
Oh wow I hadn’t heard of him until a lot more recently than that. Maybe just when he moved his show to Rogan’s club is what I was thinking was the start of Kill Tony.
Some decent comics pop up on Kill Tony on occasion, but, every time I’ve watched it, Tony himself has been deeply unfunny.
I didn’t know much about him beyond that other than the association with Rogan, but this… does not surprise me in the least.
Yeah, I had no idea that he was a right-wing comedian and now I feel weirdly guilty for liking some of the other stuff I have seen from kill Tony clips.
Kill Tony definitely has some conservative undertones. It’s not political, per se, but I’d wager 90% of its audience is conservative dudes.
The show came around way before that. Rogan has been dropping him up for years but it’s taken off the last year or 2 thanks to a couple of comedians he was able to give exposure to.
I started out seeing clips on YouTube shorts and guys like kam Patterson are genuinely funny, but more and more it got weirder and weirder and I don’t want that shit clogging up my algo so I skip it now.
they don’t understand, dark humor it’s funny when the audience knows you don’t believe that way. and they also dont believe that way. but if you all agree in these bigoted shut, yeah, thats racist and repulsive, and not funny
I wouldn’t say it’s good dark humour anyway
Starting a set with “america is garbage” isn’t a good opening. It just insults the audience. There is no story to follow and you can’t follow it up with anything
Jimmy Carr’s holocaust joke worked because it blended with the set. In addition to not believing it
Believe a Republican when he sais he is racist.
“It’s a Joke” is the standard answer when assholes get caught.
In this case, … Latino votes lost…
Exactly! I saw kill tony content through the lense of short form content (which I will be getting away from after this) and thought there was implied sarcasm, but nope just regular chud shit slathered on so thick I didn’t think it could be serious. 😬
Aren’t comedians supposed to be funny?
Tell that to Chappelle.
It’s the kind of laughing that doesn’t reach the eyes… Like mean girls in middle school cackling after torturing some poor kid.
Comedy is woke, their comedians are just racist /s
Have you ever watched Fox’s “late night” show? The guy just sits there, spews the dumbest most hateful things about anyone, and never once smiles or even laughs. He looks like he hates everything about life the entire time.
They don’t understand what being funny is. They think it’s all just insults.
What is the Fox Late Night Show?
Greg Gutfeld. Apparently he gets the highest ratings in all of late night.
For that audience they don’t need to be funny, they have to be racist.
Funny but not so funny story. I was at the Playhouse in Cleveland, Ohio about 15 years back and my stepdad really wanted to take us to Finnegan’s Wake. It was an improv show where the actors would take suggestions from the audience in what would happen next. A few of us were trying to to be playful with the context, but the vast majority of the meatheads in the audience just kept shouting out lewd suggestions like the reverend fucking the widow. Over and over and over again. The lead guy (reverend) got so tired of it that he said “is this all you want to see!” and humped the actress a few times then ended the show. Simultaneously the best and saddest anti joke I’ve ever experienced.
Take it as you will, but these are the kind of people we are now hinging our democracy on.
Ohio’s a great state to leave.
I’d love to find out…
For real though it’ll always be home despite folks like that. I do want to leave and find a job somewhere like New Jersey or Chicago, but we shouldn’t be defined by our assholes any more than New York should be defined by trump
Hinchcliffe is a complete POS. I Voted Blue, fuck MAGA.
