Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe is facing criticism after he made racist jokes about comedian Peng Dang, who introduced him to an audience in Austin. He’s also been dropped by talent agency WME, TMZ reports.
Dang shared the clip of the moment on Twitter, which he captioned, “Last week in Austin, I got to bring up Tony Hinchcliffe. This is what he said. Happy Asian (AAPI) Heritage Month!”
Hinchcliffe, who is a regular collaborator with Joe Rogan and has worked as a writer for Comedy Central Roast, came onstage after Dang introduced him.
“How about one more time for the filthy little fucking c***k that was just up here,” Hinchcliffe said.
The racist comments were met with some laughs, although it didn’t appear there was any punchline to what he said. “All you fucking race traitors are hooping and hollering. I was back there watching you puking in a fucking bucket,” he continued, before employing an offensive stereotypical accent.
“Oh we make gunpowder. Oh you want extra soy sauce. Oh you borrow money from us! And you guys are just eating it up, you fucking pussies,” Hinchcliffe said.
In an interview with TMZ, Dang spoke about the experience and explained he has no idea what Hinchcliffe’s intention was.
“I’m from China, I’ve been in this country for almost 11 years,” he said. “I lived in Alabama, Georgia, Texas… and I had never heard anybody call me that C word. So I was very, very shocked when I heard it.”
He added that prior to Hinchcliffe’s comments, he said the audience responded well to his set, which focused on stopping Asian hate. He mentioned that “some of the audience were visibly uncomfortable” following the introduction of Hinchcliffe, “especially the female audience members.”
Before Hinchcliffe uses the defense of “it’s only joke,” he should probably be reminded that jokes are typically funny. At least this way he’ll get to talk about “cancel culture” the next time he talks about DMT and aliens with Joe Rogan. He has yet to respond to reaction.
Check out reactions to his abhorrent comments below.
This isn’t funny.
This isn’t stand-up.
BIG kudos to @pengdangcomedy for posting this video. I’ve been called wetback, spic, etc and I was always told to just take it. There are several circles in stand-up and you don’t need all of them. It’s a small world but a big field. 👏🏽 https://t.co/foKR2JeKek
— Cristela Alonzo (@cristela9) May 12, 2021
Watch how sneaky some comedians are. They’ll say I’m attacking other comedians by doing this, but it doesn’t even occur to them that Tony Hinchcliffe was racist to ANOTHER COMEDIAN. But even the most woke people see “Asian” first and “comedian” second. Passive aggressive fucks.
— Cancel Culture Rules (@robintran04) May 12, 2021
is this guy ok OR
(He’s not he was just dropped by his agents for being a racist) @TonyHinchcliffe pic.twitter.com/hV7jNuDXWm
— T$E CHUN (@thetzechun) May 12, 2021
lol also he’s been trash. It’s just on tape now. Can confirm he is as equally racist and unfunny off stage too
— Atsuko Okatsuka (@AtsukoComedy) May 11, 2021
Hinchcliffe is one of Joe Rogan’s official sidekicks, check out this cutting edge material: https://t.co/fV03rO1Jpo
— Aamer Rahman (@aamer_rahman) May 12, 2021
This asshole got straight racist on my boy Peng. Fuck that dude Tony Hinchcliffe https://t.co/OK5bauHWhO
— Ralph Barbosa 🐢⌚️ (@sweetbabyralph) May 11, 2021
Most comics are wonderful people but we are like 6 months away from a segment organizing into an actual hate group, maybe Komics against Kancel Kulture https://t.co/KNybglc9RD
— Child free sober wine mom (@katewillett) May 12, 2021
wants so bad to be "canceled" so he can talk about it on rogan but is just racist and has no bits. reminded of this: https://t.co/Pgugw7nXKo
— ropevendor (@ropevendor) May 11, 2021
