Bill Maher Compares Trump Rally’s Insult Comic To “Bringing Cocaine To A Funeral”

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Following Donald Trump‘s controversial Madison Square Garden rally, Bill Maher had some thought about the choice in entertainment.

On Friday’s episode of Real Time, the host responded commented on roast comedian Tony Hinchcliffe‘s set at the campaign event, in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.” “What the Trump people did at this rally — it’s so Trump — they hired an insult comic,” said Maher. “Really, he went up there and did very insulting things.

I’d never heard of him, but this is his act he does all the time. And he told a really demeaning joke about Puerto Rico. … It didn’t even go over with the Trump crowd.

They said, ‘Look, we didn’t come here to hear vicious remarks from an insult comic. We came here to hear it from the candidate.'” During his roundtable with Tim Miller and Michael Moynihan, Maher worried the backlash made “the Democrats look weak because they can’t take a joke,” as President Joe Biden previously called Trump supporters “garbage” in response (he’s since clarified he was referring to the joke about Puerto Rico). “Well, it was insulting,” he reasoned. “But look, I have to defend my profession.