John Mulaney Was Investigated by the Secret Service After His SNL Monologue - Vulture
When John Mulaney returned to host SNL right before the election on Halloween, he unintentionally sparked some controversy thanks to a joke in his monologue, in which he called the election an “elderly man contest†and argued that no matter who ended up winning, “nothing much will change in the United States.†There was more context to the joke than that, but still, people got mad!
And while reflecting on the whole thing on last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, Mulaney said the negative reaction was warranted.
It turns out, though, that the election joke from October was not the most controversial SNL monologue joke Mulaney told in 2020.When he hosted the show on February 29, he made a leap year joke about how Julius Caesar became such a “powerful maniac†that he was stabbed to death by senators — after which Mulaney told the SNL audience, “That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now!†Mulaney revealed to Kimmel that that punchline earned him a rare accomplishment: a Secret Service investigation?