The US Secret Service has released some details about his investigation into comedian John Mulaney over jokes he made last year on ‘Saturday Night Live’ about Donald Trump.
Mulaney revealed for the first time that he was being investigated by the secret service during an appearance in ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’.
“In February, I made a joke that is not about Donald Trump,” the comedian explained at the time. ‘The joke was about how it was a leap year and the leap year was started by Julius Cesar to fix the calendar, and another thing that happened to Cesar was that he was stabbed to death by a bunch of senators because he was crazy has become. And I said it’s an interesting thing that could happen. ‘
The file obtained by the AP at the request of the Freedom of Information Act showed that Mulaney was not joking when he said he was the subject of an investigation. The bureau contacted NBC, but did not feed the comedian for his investigation.
The joke was said during Mulaney’s opening monologue during the “Saturday Night Live” broadcast on February 29, 2020.
“Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar, he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives, and they stabbed him to death. It would be an interesting thing if we brought it back now,” Mulaney said. the audience laughed. during his monologue.
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John Mulaney carried out a joke on ‘Saturday Night Live’ which led him to be investigated by the secret service.
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The Secret Service made other remarks during the monologue, including: “I asked my lawyer if I could make the joke, he said, let me call another lawyer, and that lawyer said yes. I do not like politics. no, but do not like the Founding Fathers very much … I hate it when people are like that, God has never created such a large group of men as the Founding Fathers. Yes, the ’92 Bulls … It’s’ “A perfect metaphor for the United States. I was a boy, the United States was like Michael Jordan in 1992. Now the United States was like Michael Jordan now.”
Two days after Mulaney’s ‘SNL’ monologue, law enforcement officers Thomas McCarthy, the global chief security officer and senior vice president at NBC Universal, contacted to express the agency’s desire to discuss the joke with the comedian’s lawyer.
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The Secret Service file contains a report by Breitbart entitled, “SNL: John Mulaney Jokes that Senators Should Stab Trump Like Julius Caesar.” The investigation into Mulaney opened in March and closed in December, five days after the comedian spoke in Kimmel’s show about the situation.
In the Secret Service file, it is noted that Mulaney made no direct threats against Trump.
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“The person who looked at me was very understanding that the joke had nothing to do with Donald Trump because it was an elliptical reference to him,” Mulaney told Kimmel. “I did not say anything about him. As for the risk assessment, no one who has ever looked at me thought I was registered above one.”
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He added: “I have been saying that I have been making jokes about him since 2007, and that is why I have been joking with him for 13 years,” Mulaney said. “They said if it’s a joke, I’m being cleared by the Secret Service.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.