So, Jon Stewart talked about Trump's
German American Bund campaign rally at Madison Square Garden.
I don't have a problem with the people he excoriated. He did a very good job of that.
I do, however have a problem with the one person that he defended, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. (Note that he lacks the cojones to say his name)
He argues that the guy is a comedian, and specifically a roast comedian, and that he is good at this.
That may be true, but this is not a roast, because at a roast,
your target is in the room, and there is a symmetry of power.
He knew that he wasn't a roast, and he workshopped his racist joke the night before at a comedy club, and he bombed, but he wanted to be edgy, or something.
F%$# Hinchcliffe and f%$# Stewart for alibiing for him: (Starts at 3:45)
REPORTER: The opening act grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons-- a comedian who offered unfunny, racist, cringeworthy jokes. --basically calling Puerto Ricans trash. --the most repulsive racial jokes about Latinos. --disgusting and hateful. --so incredibly crude. --frankly, just too X-rated to play here. --extremely vile so-called jokes.Extremely vile so-called jokes—
…Now, obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before Election Day and roasting a key voting demographic-- probably not the best decision by the campaign politically.
But, to be fair, the guy's really just doing what he does. I mean, here he is at the Tom Brady roast a few months ago.The great Jeff Ross, ladies and gentlemen-- Jeff is so Jewish, he only watches football for the coin toss.
Gronk, you look like the Nazi that kept burning himself on the ovens.Kevin is so small that when his ancestors picked cotton, they called it deadlifting.
Yes, yes, of course. Terrible.Boo.Yes.
I-- there's something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny.
So I'm sorry.
I don't know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and have him not do roast jokes-- that'd be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not have-- oh.
Tony Hinchcliffe out a joke, it bombed, but decided that it would be "Edgy" to say it anyway, because it the MSG rally audience had the comic sensibilities a Hitler Youth rally, and Jon Stewart defended it.
F%$# them both.
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