Joe Rogan Says He Warned Tony Hinchcliffe About That Puerto Rico Joke: ‘That’s Gonna Get You Stabbed’

variety.com:

Ethan Shanfeld Joe Rogan said he previously warned Tony Hinchcliffe about his Puerto Rico joke, telling him “that’s the one that’s gonna get you stabbed.” Hinchcliffe, an insult comic best known for hosting the live podcast “Kill Tony,” sparked outrage Sunday when he appeared at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally and told a joke that referred to Puerto Rico as “a floating island of garbage.” “I’ve gotta tell you, that joke kills at comedy clubs.

I don’t like the joke, [but] it kills,” Rogan said on Wednesday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “It’s just like, if you’re Puerto Rican and you hear that in the audience, you’re like [groans].

But it’s a funny joke. The joke does well. But I said to him, I go, ‘Dude, that’s the one that’s gonna get you stabbed.’ And he used to talk about it on stage, saying, ‘Joe Rogan always says that’s the one that’s gonna get me stabbed.'” Rogan added that political rallies are “a bad environment for comedy,” and if he had sat down with Hinchcliffe before his appearance, he would have told him, “Don’t you fucking dare do that joke.” “I didn’t know what bits he was going to do, but then I heard he did that joke, and I was like, ‘Oh, Jesus, Tony.

Here it comes,'” Rogan said. Hinchcliffe’s joke was not well-received, and it drove several high-profile Puerto Rican artists, including Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez, to show public support for Kamala Harris.