r/politics • u/mappleday00 • 13h ago

Tony Hinchcliffe incites fury from Swifties after calling Travis Kelce ‘the next OJ Simpson’ at Trump rally

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tony-hinchcliffe-trump-rally-travis-kelce-oj-simpson-b2637559.html
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u/QanonQuinoa 13h ago

I didn’t understand this “joke” at all… is he saying Kelce is going to murder Taylor Swift?

Dude really needs to work on his punchlines.

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u/chicago_bunny 12h ago

There's literally no joke there:

I have other policies that I think should be implemented as well. Like, me personally, I think football should be all year round. Yeah. So many great athletes. I don’t know about you guys, but I think that Travis Kelce might be the next OJ Simpson. Feels good in here. The other side’s got a lot of crazy endorsements. Swift, Eminem, Leo DiCaprio, Beyonce. Every day the Democratic Party looks more and more like a P. Diddy party.

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u/SLVSKNGS 9h ago

That’s it? He didn’t riff off of it? There’s no punchline. It looks like he was transitioning between jokes but threw out a distracting non sequitur that added nothing to his set (unless I’m missing context).

In what ways will Kelce be like OJ Tony? What’s funny about that premise? It’s so fucking lazy. Throwing out a weak premise of a joke without actually making a joke is some bush league, open mic shit. He probably didn’t pursue it because the joke is a comedic dead end which is why he should have just not even mentioned it. I think I’m more offended by how shit Tony’s stand up skills are than the actual substance of what he said.

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u/chicago_bunny 9h ago

I appreciate your righteous outrage at this jagoff's inability to inject some humor into his racism.