Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe unapologetic for Puerto Rico ‘garbage’ joke, admits Trump’s MSG rally not best event for that routine

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sparked widespread outrage in the week leading up to the election, opened up about the poorly-received joke on the latest episode of his podcast “Kill Tony” released Monday. “I apologize to absolutely nobody,” Hinchcliffe declared to a cheering audience of the live show. “Not to the Puerto Ricans, not to the whites, not to the Blacks, not to the Palestinians, not to the Jews, and not to my own mother, who I made fun of during the set.

Nobody clipped that. No headlines about me making fun of my own mother.”Hinchcliffe lamented that the true meaning behind his address — namely, the importance of free speech — was ironically lost in the controversy.“Last night I gave a speech, I don’t know if you heard about this,” Hinchcliffe said in the podcast recorded the day after the election. “It was a speech about free speech, believe it or not… I referenced Puerto Rico, which currently has a landfill problem in which all of their landfills are filled to the brim.

I am the only person who knew about this, unfortunately.”The island of Puerto Rico does in fact have a landfill problem — with 29 of the garbage dumps overflowing or not meeting government standards, according to the St.

Kitts and Nevis Observer. The island generates 3.7 million tons of waste annually, according to that report.Hinchcliffe acknowledged that the time and place of the comments were ill-considered when deciding on which set of jokes to perform.“Perhaps that venue at that time wasn’t the best f—king place to do this set at.