Comic Tony Hinchcliffe has locked down a cope with Netflix months after making jarringly racist jokes during an October rally for President Donald Trump at Madison Sq. Backyard.
“Kill Tony is coming to Netflix,” Netflix introduced in a Monday post on X, referring to the comic’s Kill Tony podcast. “We’re teaming up with Tony Hinchcliffe to show the world’s #1 reside podcast into 3 unique comedy specials – with the primary premiering April 7.”
Throughout the Trump rally, Hinchcliffe recited quite a few “jokes” taking purpose at Latinos, the island of Puerto Rico, Black individuals, Haitian individuals and Jewish individuals.
In a single occasion, he drew cheers when he requested the gang, “The place are my proud Latinos at tonight?”
He then adopted up by saying, “You guys see what I imply? [The border’s] huge open. There’s so lots of them.”
“These Latinos, they love making infants, too,” Hinchcliffe added. “There’s no pulling out. They don’t try this. They arrive inside identical to they did to our nation.”
He additionally referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of rubbish,” mentioned Black individuals carve watermelons fairly than pumpkins for Halloween and claimed that Jews are obsessive about cash, amongst different “jokes.” He additionally echoed Trump’s ridiculous declare that Haitian immigrants are “consuming the pets” in Springfield, Ohio.
Expectedly, Hinchcliffe acquired backlash after his racist remarks, together with Puerto Rican music artists Nicky Jam and Bad Bunny, actress Aubrey Plaza, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.
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As a substitute of apologizing, Hinchcliffe doubled down in a November episode of his podcast.
“I apologize to completely no person,” Hinchcliffe mentioned. “To not the Puerto Ricans, to not the whites, to not the Blacks, to not the Palestinians, to not the Jews, and to not my very own mom, who I made enjoyable of throughout the set. No one clipped that.”
“Maybe that venue at the moment wasn’t the very best fucking place to do that set at,” Hinchcliffe added. “However in any matter, to the mainstream media and to anyone attempting to slander me on-line: That’s what I do, and that’s by no means going to alter.”
