Theo Von and Brendan Schaub react to controversial Tony Hinchcliffe slur video Instagram: brendanschaub\/YouTube: Joe RoganIn May 2021, a video went viral of Tony Hinchcliffe using racial slurs and making jokes about a fellow comedian, and now Theo Von and Brendan Schaub have had their say on the issue. On May 11, Peng Dang, an Asian comedian, posted a video of Hinchcliffe making anti-Asian jokes at the expense of him and his audience, after he introduced Hinchcliffe to the stage. The video has since been viewed well over a million times, with thousands of responses and retweets on Twitter, with Dang saying \u201cHappy Asian (AAPI) Heritage Month\u201d in response to the jokes. In the video, Hinchcliffe calls Dang a \u201cfilthy little ch*nk\u201d and calls the audience \u201crace traitors\u201d for laughing at his jokes. Warning: viewer discretion is advised. Last week in Austin, I got to bring up Tony Hinchcliffe. This is what he said. Happy Asian (AAPI) Heritage Month! pic.twitter.com\/9XG6upit2a \u2014 Peng Dang (@pengdangcomedy) May 11, 2021 Since then, Hinchcliffe has lost work, his representation, and his career seems to essentially have been put on hold as a result. Debating the controversial clip that has been circulating, though, Theo Von and Brendan Schaub discuss what was said and what really went wrong for Hinchcliffe on the King and the Sting podcast. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say that Tony\u2019s the funniest guy in the world to me, but his thing is saying abusive and messed up sh*t,\u201d says Von. Schaub agrees that Tony\u2019s brand of comedy is \u201csavage\u201d and \u201cbelow the belt,\u201d saying that it\u2019s \u201cnot for everybody\u201d and \u201cwasn\u2019t meant to be blasted to the masses.\u201d While they said the video itself should never have been recorded or shared on the internet, they agree that the jokes simply \u201cweren\u2019t funny.\u201d Von also said that posting the clip was \u201cclout chasing\u201d and that any issues with Hinchcliffe should\u2019ve been taking up with him, as opposed to going online. Dang has explained that he did it to \u201craise awareness\u201d of anti-Asian hate. Hinchcliffe hasn\u2019t yet responded to the controversy that has erupted as a result of his jokes and hasn\u2019t posted on social media since the incident. When he returns, he\u2019ll likely face a lot of questions regarding this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Theo Von and Brendan Schaub react to controversial Tony Hinchcliffe slur video Instagram: brendanschaub\/YouTube: Joe RoganIn May 2021, a video went viral of Tony Hinchcliffe using racial slurs and making jokes about a fellow comedian, and now Theo Von and Brendan Schaub have had their say on the issue. On May 11, Peng Dang, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}