Comic Tony Hinchcliffe refused to apologize for his controversial joke through which he referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” — however he admitted then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally wasn’t the perfect place for that specific routine.
Hinchcliffe, whose “garbage” remark sparked widespread outrage within the week main as much as the election, opened up concerning the poorly-received joke on the most recent episode of his podcast “Kill Tony” launched Monday.
“I apologize to absolutely nobody,” Hinchcliffe declared to a cheering viewers of the reside present.
“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 which means behind his deal with — specifically, the significance of free speech — was paradoxically misplaced within the controversy.
“Last night I gave a speech, I don’t know if you heard about this,” Hinchcliffe mentioned within 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 actually have a landfill drawback — with 29 of the rubbish dumps overflowing or not assembly authorities requirements, in accordance with the St. Kitts and Nevis Observer. The island generates 3.7 million tons of waste yearly, in accordance with that report.
Hinchcliffe acknowledged that the time and place of the feedback have been ill-considered when deciding on which set of jokes to carry out.
“Perhaps that venue at that time wasn’t the best f—king place to do this set at. But in any matter, to the mainstream media and to anybody trying to slander me online: That’s what I do, and that’s never going to change,” Hinchcliffe concluded previous to the podcast episode that featured James McCann and Ari Matti.
“I just want to say that I love Puerto Ricans, they’re very smart people — they’re smart, they’re street smart, they’re smart enough to know when they’re being used as political fodder. Right now that is happening,” Hinchcliffe mentioned.
