Even fellow comedians aren’t immune. At the Snoop Dogg roast, Hichcliffe made a joke referencing comedian Luenell, who is Black, being on the Underground Railroad. Of the honoree, he said: “Snoop, you look like the California Raisin that got hooked on heroin.”

Tony Hinchcliffe’s description of Puerto Rico as a "floating island of garbage" during former president Donald Trump's New York rally has drawn bipartisan backlash from officials who said the podcaster’s remarks were false and disrespectful.