Jon Stewart defends Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial MSG Trump rally joke

Jon Stewart is sticking up for chap comedian Tony Hinchcliffe aft his joke astir Puerto Rico astatine Sunday’s New York City Trump rally group disconnected a media firestorm — and he threw successful a hilarious jab astatine nan Harris run for bully measure.

On Monday night’s “Daily Show,” Stewart ran a supercut of left-leaning MSNBC and CNN personalities’ scandalized reactions to nan one-liner, successful which nan noted roast comic and big of “Kill Tony” podcast compared nan US territory to a “floating land of garbage.”

The clips ended pinch “Morning Joe” cohost Mika Brzezinski calling retired Hinchcliffe’s “extremely vile alleged jokes,” which Stewart quipped was nan sanction of his first drama album.

“Obviously successful retrospect having a roast comedian travel to a governmental rally a week earlier Election Day and roasting a cardinal voting demographic is astir apt not nan champion run determination by nan run politically,” Stewart said.

“But to beryllium fair, nan guy’s really conscionable doing what he does,” he added, earlier punctuating his constituent pinch a montage of clips from nan Tom Brady roast successful which Hinchcliffe makes outrageous jokes astir Jews and achromatic people.

The item reel ended pinch Stewart feigning outrage astatine nan jokes, sarcastically saying “yes, yes of course. Terrible. Boooo!” earlier attempting to stifle his ain laughter astatine nan edgy humor.

“There’s thing incorrect pinch me. I find that feline very funny,” he said, still holding backmost laughter. “I’m sorry, I don’t cognize what to show you,” he said helplessly earlier concluding pinch a timely barb astatine nan Harris campaign.

“Bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes, that’d beryllium for illustration bringing Beyoncé to a rally and having her…” he said earlier hanging his caput — a reference to nan caller Harris rally successful Texas successful which nan Grammy victor made a short appearance, but didn’t perform, enraging thousands of attendees.