Festering Trump-hatred leads one comedian to cross the line

One of the core rules of comedy is that there are some things that are no joking matter.  The most obvious example is that one should never joke about "bombs" when in an airport. Even if the joke is funny, the subject is too serious, and the consequences are too great for airport security ever to assume that the speaker is "just joking."  Perhaps it's time to add a new comedy principle to the list: one should never joke about accepting money to assassinate the president. It all started during Qassem Soleimani's funeral, when one of the eulogists proposed that Iranians put together an $80-million bounty on Donald Trump: The eulogist at the funeral procession of prominent Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Iran put an 80-million-dollar prize on US President Donald Trump's head on live state TV. "We are 80 million Iranians, if each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million...(Read Full Post)
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