Cortez replied by writing on X, “Can’t recover from this dude telling another person to alter tampons when he’s the one s******* bricks in his Relies upon after realizing opening for a Trump rally and feeding red-meat racism alongside a throng of different bigots to a frothing crowd does, unironically, make you one in all them,” including, “You don’t ‘love Puerto Rico.’’ You want consuming piña coladas. There’s a distinction.”
Has Hinchcliffe gotten into hassle earlier than?
This isn’t the comedian’s first brush with controversy. Again in 2021, after being launched at an Austin, Texas gig by fellow comic Peng Dang, Hinchcliffe used a racial slur onstage whereas speaking about Dang. The remarks have been caught on video and broadly circulated on social media, leading to Hinchcliffe being dropped by his expertise company, WME, in addition to just a few scheduled gigs.
The comedian, who’s now represented by United Expertise Company, has by no means apologized for the incident. In October 2023, whereas showing on the YouTube present “TRIGGERnometry,” Hinchcliffe accused Dang of being “a Chinese language spy,” and theorized that the backlash was “an orchestrated assault by the Chinese language media.”
In response, Dang informed Variety earlier this 12 months: “I believed most spies collect labeled info associated to science, expertise or authorities affairs. Why would any nation ship a spy to be a slapstick comedian? What sort of intelligence would I get from doing comedy? At that second in time, there was an increase in Asian hate. It was backed by statistics. I do know folks personally who have been injured in Texas.”
Throughout the similar article, Hinchcliffe doubled down on his feedback. “I knew that what I had accomplished was not mistaken. It wasn’t even the worst factor I did that week,” he informed Selection in April. “I couldn’t imagine it when that video got here out, and it was one in all my former openers doing it. It was so dumbfounding to me as a result of it was a joke, and my stance is that comedians ought to by no means apologize for a joke, ought to by no means cease working if everybody comes after them and may by no means decelerate. In truth, they need to make the most of something that occurs to them for extra materials.”
