Conservative pundit Ann Coulter said jokes reportedly written for her by a team including embattled MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe were so bad she couldn’t use them.
According to the Daily Beast, the comic who performed a racist and divisive set at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally was tasked with penning one-liners for Coulter to deliver at a 2016 Comedy Central roast of actor Rob Lowe.
“Comedy Central has a team to write jokes for everyone at a roast, but they were terrible so I wrote my own,” she told the outlet Tuesday.
Coulter — no stranger to being accused of bigotry — said she was unaware that Hinchcliffe was one of those writers, though he reportedly confirmed in a podcast after the roast that he was.
“We wanted her to do good because that would make us look good as writers,” Hinchcliffe said.
Instead, according to him, “the worst human being” he’d ever worked with went rogue and bombed at the Comedy Central event.
Hinchcliffe delivered a stand-up set at Trump’s rally Sunday that has since drawn tremendous backlash over his characterization of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and a reference to a Black audience member he accused of carving watermelons for Halloween.
Coulter posted on social media after the rally that she was insulted by seeing an “unfunny” comedian, but didn’t express specific objections to his material.
She told the Daily Beast that other Hinchcliffe material she’s seen was funny and suggested the room he was booked to play Sunday may have been the problem.
“An insult comic was probably not the greatest idea for a campaign rally,” Coulter told the publication.