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Norm Macdonald accused Tony Hinchcliffe of stealing a joke for Hinchcliffe's terrible Netflix special

MAGA comedian and open mic host Tony Hinchcliffe is currently under fire for his performance a poorly received stand-up set at last night's rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden, but are we really sure he wrote the “Puerto Rico is a garbage island” joke all by himself?

In the Joe RoganIn the bro comedy community, the most serious accusation a comedian can face (and possibly the only damaging accusation a male comedian could ever face) is having another, more successful comedian accuse them of joke stealing. As we know, Rogan ended Carlos Mencias mainstream career with an attack campaign replete with a bibliography and compilation of jokes in which Mencia told jokes similar to those of comedians such as George Lopez, Bob Levy, Bobby Lee and Ari Shaffir performed first. However, if it's late, great Norm Macdonald accused the Kill Tony host, who just made headlines with a boring, cheesy and racist set at Trump's high-profile plagiarism rally, the first person to begin damage control on Hinchcliffe's behalf was none other than Rogan himself.

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According to Macdonald and his fans, Hinchcliffe took a production from Macdonald's famous “Janice” routine and passed it off as his own in his 2016 Netflix special Tony Hinchcliffe: One Shota show that was so shitty, unfunny, and widely disliked that Netflix delisted it just a few years later.

In a follow-up tweet, which Macdonald later deleted, he wrote about Hinchcliffe'It is set, “The bit has just been sent. Definitely stolen. “Parallel thinking,” no. Stolen.” Macdonald also made a half-threatening, half-ironic speech directly to Hinchcliffe: “Anyone who steals jokes pays the consequences. I have friends in low places.”

Hinchcliffe or not's reformulation of Macdonald'S The premise that it's joke stealing is left to any comedy fan who has seen both parts in their entirety, but the outcome is clear – when Hinchcliffe delivers a famous number from one of the best and most popular stand-up comedians of all time in one could have easily retooled The attempt to make his Netflix debut a success was successful'It doesn't work. One shot was widely ridiculed upon its release, even in the emerging, vaguely conservative bro-comedy community that Hinchcliffe would indulge in for the rest of his career. Hinchcliffe'His awkward, stilted delivery did nothing to complement his amateurish material, and his struggle to show any degree of authenticity or originality in his comedy would be embarrassing even if he had written all of his jokes himself.

Since Netflix left Hinchcliffe's disastrous set from their platform, One shot hasn't'It was not possible to watch it through legal channels, and Hinchcliffe himself deleted any mention of the planned special from his various outlets and biographies. The Trump campaign has also distanced itself from Hinchcliffe's was set last night, as Trump senior adviser Danielle Alvarez said of Hinchcliffe's “Puerto Rico is Trash” said in a statement: “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”

Hinchcliffe probably wishes he could pass this joke on someone else now, especially if that person's death prevents them from fighting back, but unfortunately Macdonald usually only wrote funny bits for him.

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