Anthony Jeselnik Says Tony Hinchcliffe Is ‘A Troll Basking In Joe Rogan’s Shadow’

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Far right open mic host Tony Hinchcliffe has no excuses for the black, Puerto Rican and Latino Americans he insulted on the national stage last month, but at least he can apologize to comedians for pretending to be one of them.

After Hinchcliffe performed an unoriginal, unfunny and racist stand-up set at the Madison Square Garden rally for Donald Trump on October 27, 2024, political commentators on both sides of the aisle protested the Trump campaign’s decision to have a “roast comedian” represent the values ​​of the once and future president. On the other hand, many members of the comedy community were happy to see the controversial Kill Tony host and the worst stand-up ever to record a terrible Netflix special embarrasses himself on such a massive, international stage.

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One such comic who couldn’t wait to see Hinchcliffe eat absolute crap in front of the whole world is Anthony Jeselnikwho recently spoke with Vulture about how his brand of dark comedy is so much smarter, funnier and better than all the Joe Rogan-adjacent edgelord “comedy” trolls like Hinchcliffe trot out on their Patreon podcasts.

“He thought the Brady roast was his big moment, even though I think those jokes cracked,” Jeselnik said of Hinchcliffe‘s budding career goes into the massive bombshell at MSG. “He’s a troll basking in Joe Rogan’s shadow.”

The day after Hinchcliffe‘s disastrous set made front page news across the country, Jeselnik reposted the above clip from his 2023 performance on This last weekend with Theo Von on his popular TikTok account, even though the video had already gone viral on various platforms like Jeselnik‘s fans came out in force to ensure that Hinchcliffe‘s inevitable “triggered libtards can‘t take a little dark humor” apology would‘t stick. As Jeselnik so expertly explained to Von, the reason Jeselnik “gets away” with making jokes far darker than anything Hinchcliffe could write is because, unlike Hinchcliffe, Jeselnik‘s goal ern‘t to be an asshole – that‘is to be funny.

In online comedy discourse, dark humor fans consider Jeselnik the gold standard and consistently use him as a counterpoint when relatively milquetoast comics like Jerry Seinfeld claims that comedy is dead because no one is willing to offend. Jeselnik has fully embraced this role, and in his talk with Vulturehe made sure to call out all the comics hiding behind lame excuses to make even more “dark” jokes. On the subject of TikTok darling Matt Rife‘s infamous pivot to edgy humor, Jeselnik said, “I really think all roads lead to me. I just don’t know why you could eat steak and you’d want to eat cow shit.”

Maybe that‘s because Jordan Peterson asks his followers to eat ko-shit to own libs.