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?