Comedian Shane Gillis joked that racist Nick Fuentes could be the next Catholic president, but appeared serious in praising his sense of humor.
“Funny as fuck,” Gillis said of the far-right white nationalist on “The Joe Rogan Experience” Thursday. (Watch the video below.)
The bonkers exchange happened as Rogan ruminated over the lack of Catholics (John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden) who have become commander in chief. He eventually asked Gillis, “You got anybody in mind?”
“Fuentes,” Gillis said, cracking up.
“Nick Fuentes?” Rogan asked with a belly laugh.
“He could probably win in a few years,” the host said, claiming that a figure like the bigoted Fuentes could not have been as openly popular 10 to 20 years ago.
“There’s, like, a whole group of people that feel very unrepresented in the world and especially, like, young men,” Rogan continued. “And here you got this young guy with a very high verbal IQ and he also does a lot of shitposting, a lot of talking shit, a lot of trolling, says women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Says wild shit.”
Rogan referenced Fuentes’ controversial spot on “Piers Morgan Uncensored earlier this month, saying the guest outboxed the host.
“I agree,” Gillis responded. “The thing that people try to get Fuentes on is that he’s still funny as fuck.”
“He’s funny,” Rogan interjected.
“So that’s where you’re in a lot of trouble,” Gillis said.
Yeah, Fuentes’ connection to neo-Nazis and call for “total Aryan victory” are a real hoot.
Rogan noted a specific exchange in which Morgan called out Fuentes for joking about the Holocaust. “Why, too soon?” Fuentes snapped back.
“He’s wild,” Gillis said as he laughed.
“You could see Piers going, ‘Aw, fuck,’” added Rogan.
“He got hit with a missile on that one,” Gillis chimed in.
Fast-forward to 2:53:50 for the Fuentes conversation: