“Even I Have Some Limitations”– Tony Hinchcliffe Reveals The Joke He Cut From His Speech At Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden Rally

He didn't even tell the bad ones. Tony Hinchcliffe is undoubtedly one of the biggest comedians out there right now, and for good reason. His popular Kill Tony podcast gets millions of views on YouTube alone, and he became a household name after his masterful performance at the recent Netflix roast of future NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady. But Tony found himself in the middle of some controversy last month after an appearance at Donald Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden just over a week before the 2024 presidential election. Now, is it risky to trot out a comedian known for offensive jokes a week before the election? Maybe. But was his set hilarious? Definitely. Tony took shots at everybody from Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift to Eminem and Leonardo DiCaprio, joking that the Democrat party is starting to look "more and more like a P. Diddy party." But the most controversial moment came when the comedian made a joke about Puerto Rico: “There’s a lot going on. I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.” Of course Democrats and the media pounced on the joke, citing it as proof that Trump hates Puerto Ricans, predicting that it could costs the Republican nominee support among Hispanic Americans. Well spoiler alert, it didn’t end up costing Trump the election, and the only people actually offended by it were Democrats and the media. Trump actually gained in his support among Hispanics from 2020, and I have a feeling nobody was more thankful for that than Tony Hinchcliffe, who was spared from becoming the subject of incessant think-pieces from the media over whether his joke cost Trump the election. The comedian addressed the controversy during a comedy special filmed 23 days after his joke at the Madison Square Garden rally (and after Trump won the election), appropriately titled "Garbage" in reference to his Puerto Rico joke and released on X last week. Tony joked about Trump actually gaining support among Puerto Ricans - while admitting that it might not have been the best idea to try to put him directly after the invocation and national anthem: "Turns out garbage has a good sense of humor... I was the news for nine and a half days during a fucking huge election. It didn't make any sense. It was never my intention to swing an election. But...right place right time I guess... I've been doing this every fucking night for almost 18 years...I've gone up after Chappelle, Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Chris Rock, Louis, Burr, Rogan, everybody. I ain't never followed prayers and national anthem before. Turns out I met my match." But he also revealed one joke that he wanted to tell that even he thought would be too far - so he decided to cut it. "I didn't even do the joke that I thought was going to get me in trouble. I had options of things I could have done that deserved what my silly Puerto Rico joke got, that I chose not to do because even I have some limitations." Well you know the crowd wanted to hear it, and Tony obliged: "Well there's these hurricanes that have been happening in Florida, and it's just terrible. So what I think we should do is I think we should take all the good taxpaying Americans when a hurricane is coming into their zone, you put 'em on flights and fly them somewhere safe. Like Springfield, Ohio. Take the migrants from Springfield, Ohio and fly them into the path of the hurricane. From what I've heard it's raining cats and dogs there, so that's breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a little something to wash it all down." That's pretty good. But of course Trump received quite a bit of backlash for his comment during the debate against Kamala Harris when he said that Haitian migrants in Springfield were eating dogs and cats, so I can only imagine what the media and Democrats would have had to say about Tony's joke. Regardless, isn't it great to have comedy back? https://twitter.com/TonyHinchcliffe/status/1862668654434746733