Maga comedian and open mic host Tony Hinchcliffe is currently under fire for performing a poorly received stand-up set at last night’s rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, but are we really sure that he wrote the “Puerto Rico is an island of garbage” joke all by himself?
In the Joe-Rogan-centric bro comedy community, the most serious allegation a comedian can face is for another more successful comic to accuse them of joke theft. Famously, Rogan ended Carlos Mencia’s mainstream career with an attack campaign that came loaded with a bibliography and a compilation edit of Mencia telling jokes that were eerily similar to bits that comedians such as George Lopez, Bob Levy, Bobby Lee and Ari Shaffir performed first. However, when the late, great Norm Macdonald accused the Kill Tony host who just made front page news with a boring, hack and racist set at...
In the Joe-Rogan-centric bro comedy community, the most serious allegation a comedian can face is for another more successful comic to accuse them of joke theft. Famously, Rogan ended Carlos Mencia’s mainstream career with an attack campaign that came loaded with a bibliography and a compilation edit of Mencia telling jokes that were eerily similar to bits that comedians such as George Lopez, Bob Levy, Bobby Lee and Ari Shaffir performed first. However, when the late, great Norm Macdonald accused the Kill Tony host who just made front page news with a boring, hack and racist set at...
- 10/28/2024
- Cracked
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