Tony Hinchcliffe Height, Age, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Tony Hinchcliffe

• In 2007, he moved to Los Angeles to start a comedy career.

• Tony Hinchcliffe then began doing stand-up comedy at open mic nights at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, California. He got a job of answering the phone calls and working at the entrance booth there, becoming a regular paid performer.

• He soon started performing with comedians Joe Rogan and Jeff Ross.

• Tony Hinchcliffe became known at The Comedy Store for making sharp, sometimes harsh jokes about other comedians and audience members, and for tackling sensitive or awkward topics in his stand-up.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe while speaking at the show The Comedy Store

• In 2013, he began producing and hosting a podcast called Kill Tony, a live weekly show recorded at The Comedy Store. In the show, Hinchcliffe and his co-host Brian Redban along with a changing panel of comedians and celebrities, judge budding comedians.

• In the show The Comedy Store, contestants put their names in a bucket and are picked randomly throughout the show to perform a one-minute comedy set, after which they receive feedback from the judges.

• Kill Tony gave new comedians a platform to display their skills and grow their careers. The contestants could perform on any topic, allowing for tense or controversial content.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe and his team during the show Kill Tony

• His roasting style and humour caught the attention of Jeff Ross, known as the ‘Roastmaster General’ of Comedy Central Roast, who became his mentor and helped Hinchcliffe get his first writing job.

• Tony Hinchcliffe went on to write for Comedy Central Roast episodes featuring celebrities like James Franco, Justin Bieber, and Rob Lowe.

• His work included writing Martha Stewart’s jokes for the Justin Bieber roast and Ann Coulter’s jokes for the Rob Lowe roast. He also wrote for The Burn with Jeff Ross and competed in the first season of Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle in 2016.

• In the same year, Tony Hinchcliffe appeared as a roaster on a show named All Def Digital Roast of Snoop Dogg.

• He released his first one-hour stand-up special, One Shot, on Netflix in 2016. The show was considered unique because it was filmed in one continuous camera take without any edits.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe on the poster of the show One Shot (2016)

• In 2017, during the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour, Tony Hinchcliffe performed in 20 cities across the U.S. in 22 days.

• In September 2020, he announced that he would move to Austin, Texas, joining Joe Rogan and Brian Redban. His Kill Tony podcast also moved, first to Antone’s Nightclub in Austin, and then in May 2021 to the Vulcan Gas Company on 6th Street.

• In 2023, Tony Hinchcliffe hosted Joe Rogan’s Austin-based comedy club, Comedy Mothership. The show held its first theatre event on New Year’s Eve in 2023 at the H-E-B Center in Cedar Park.

• On 19 October 2024, he appeared on ESPN’s College GameDay in Austin, where some people criticized his jokes as homophobic.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe during the show College GameDay in Austin

• In May 2021, during a stand-up show at the Vulcan Gas Company in Austin, Tony Hinchcliffe was filmed making offensive remarks about Peng Dang, an Asian American comedian who had introduced him.

• He insulted Dang with a racial taunt, used Asian stereotypes in a mock accent, and criticized audience members who laughed at Dang’s jokes, calling them race betrayers. The video was later posted on Twitter, went viral, and received widespread criticism.

• Following the incident, Hinchcliffe’s agency, WME, dropped him, and he was removed from upcoming shows with Joe Rogan in Austin. Antone, the Austin nightclub, also announced that it would no longer host Hinchcliffe or his Kill Tony live show.

• According to a media house, he joked that Chinese people came to Austin because of the bats and told offended audience members that they were wrong to take him seriously. Later, Dang said he did not receive an apology from Hinchcliffe.
  

  Peng Dang, an Asian American comedian

• After that, during a media interview, Tony Hinchcliffe defended his remarks, saying they were meant as a joke, and that he did nothing wrong. He argued that comedians should never apologize for jokes and instead focus on their work, which was what he chose to do after the incident.

• In an October 2023 episode of the Triggernometry podcast, Hinchcliffe claimed that Peng Dang was a ‘Chinese spy’ and that the backlash was part of a plotted attack by the Chinese media.

• In response, Dang questioned the idea of a spy posing as a stand-up comedian and shared that he continued to receive racist and hateful messages from some of Hinchcliffe’s fans following the incident.

• In 2024, he appeared as a roaster on the show The Roast of Tom Brady.

• On 27 October 2024, Tony Hinchcliffe spoke at a Donald Trump campaign rally at Madison Square Garden, where he made several offensive remarks.

• He insulted Puerto Rico, calling it a ‘floating island of garbage,’ and made negative comments about migrants, using stereotypes about Latino families.

• Tony Hinchcliffe also made insensitive jokes about Black people, Palestinians, and Jews, using racist and antisemitic language.

• His remarks attracted a lot of criticism including from Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, who called him a “jackwad.”

• Other representatives such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ritchie Torres, both of Puerto Rican descent, responded by saying he was “tempted to call Hinchcliffe racist garbage but doing so would be an insult to garbage.”
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe while speaking at the Donald Trump campaign

• In response to Hinchcliffe’s comments on Puerto Rico, Trump campaign senior advisor Danielle Alvarez stated that his remarks did not represent Trump or the campaign’s views. However, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted Hinchcliffe’s dismissal of the criticism, where Hinchcliffe denied being racist and accused Tim Walz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of lacking a sense of humour.

• Tony Hinchcliffe criticized Walz for ‘[taking] time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke out of context to make it seem racist.’ The Trump campaign officially distanced itself from Hinchcliffe’s comments about Puerto Rico.

• In 2020, he launched an online course called RoastMaster Class.

• Tony Hinchcliffe is a regular performer at major clubs in L.A. and headlines at top clubs and theatres across the U.S., Australia, and Europe.

• He likes playing baseball and basketball in his free time.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe posing with a basketball

• Tony Hinchcliffe is a fitness enthusiast and does physical exercise regularly. He often shares pictures of his exercise sessions on social media.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe while doing physical exercise

• He is an animal lover and has a pet dog. He often shares pictures of his pet on social media.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe with his pet

• Tony Hinchcliffe is often spotted consuming alcoholic beverages and smoking cigarettes on various occasions.
  

  Tony Hinchcliffe while smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol