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Comedian Says Secret Service Investigated Him For ‘Saturday Night Live’ Joke

“It was an elliptical reference to” Trump.

Joseph Curl
Comedian Says Secret Service Investigated Him For ‘Saturday Night Live’ Joke
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When comedian John Mulaney hosted “Saturday Night Live” on February 29 — Leap Day — he made a joke about President Trump. Sort of.

In his opening monologue, Mulaney said: “Leap Year began in the year 45 B.C. under Julius Caesar. This is true. He started the Leap Year in order to correct the calendar, and we still do it to this day. Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar was he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives and they stabbed him to death. That’d be an interesting thing if we brought that back now,” Mulaney said.

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