‘Simpsons’ Writers Want to Turn Tony Hinchcliffe’s Trump Rally Bomb Into A Krusty Episode
Podcaster Tony Hinchcliffe’s hackish, hate-filled roast comedy set may have failed spectacularly at the rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, but it would have killed at the Krusty Komedy Klassic.
One of the best running bits on The Simpsons that’s been going strong since Season One is the how the city of Springfield’s most popular comedian and entertainer, Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky, also known as Krusty the Clown, is a painfully unoriginal hack and an utter degenerate with dubious morals. Honestly, the clown would be the perfect host for a podcast and live show called Kill Krusty, if there weren’t a significant chance that a certain Sideshow character would take the title literally.
In real life, America’s most pathetic and unfunny clown who has somehow achieved national notoriety is the right-wing host of Kill Tony, whose performance in front of tens of thousands of Trump fans on Sunday was bad enough to embarrass both himself and his preferred candidate to the point where Trump had to publicly distance himself from Hinchcliffe. In fact, earlier today, Trump hilariously claimed that he doesn’t even know who Hinchcliffe is.
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Hinchcliffe’s evolution from mean-spirited, anti-woke podcaster to national laughing stock is one of the funniest bits of the election cycle, and the ongoing news story reads like a piece of immaculate satire about how the contemporary comedy industry’s most untalented clowns are weaponizing humor for politically destructive means. If anything, legendary Simpsons writers Mike Reiss and Al Jean are kicking themselves for not coming up with it first:
It’s worth noting that, prior to Sunday’s stand-up performance, the previous biggest controversy of Hinchcliffe’s career was when he unleashed a tirade of racial slurs and racist attacks on Asian-American comedian Peng Dang after Dang had the audacity to politely introduce Hinchcliffe onstage during a show. The ugly incident caused Hinchcliffe’s agency WME to drop the controversial comic, and numerous comedy clubs and comedy shows in Hinchcliffe’s home of Austin, Texas (including shows featuring his friend Joe Rogan) banned the comic indefinitely.
Basically, Hinchcliffe saw Krusty’s “Me so solly” routine and decided to top it at the expense of his career.
But honestly, as much as Hinchcliffe’s high-profile, hate-filled bomb seems like a perfect Simpsons plot line, even Krusty wouldn’t stoop to the level of “joking” that Black Americans carve watermelons instead of pumpkins for Halloween. For all the hack humor Krusty has performed through 36 Simpsons seasons and counting, his shitty comedy isn’t nearly as awful as Hinchcliffe’s sense of humor, and Krusty’s racist moments are more of the hilariously inappropriate and unintentional acronym variety rather than fascist-level anti-immigrant rants thinly disguised as jokes.
Krusty might be a racist hack, but at least Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky managed to teach his son that Nazi talking points aren’t funny.