A popular comedian has postponed the Minneapolis shows he’d had scheduled for this weekend on account of all the drama in town.
However, comedian John Mulaney is now being mocked for his cancellation statement because of all the virtue-signaling in it.
Instead of just writing that things are kind of hectic and chaotic in Minneapolis, he wrote a screed about the “grief” being experienced by people over the killing by immigration authorities of a leftist agitator.
Look:
My shows in Minneapolis pic.twitter.com/M806ZFPaUC
— John Mulaney (@mulaney) January 9, 2026
“What’s happening in your city is heartbreaking,” he wrote. “I hate to postpone shows in a town going through such awful challenges and such grief, because it feels unfair to the audience.”
The so-called “awful challenges” were a reference to the presence of immigration authorities who’ve been conducting sweeps to find and deport illegal aliens, not to mention fraudsters.
“Still, I don’t feel comfortable asking thousands of people each night to leave their homes, gather at the venue, and then make their way home when the situation is so unsafe,” Mulaney continued.
Just to be clear, the reason the city is so “unsafe” right now isn’t because of the immigration authorities — it’s because of all the left-wing extremists who’ve congregated in town to “resist.”
Responding to Mulaney’s statement, many conservatives critiqued him, accusing him of bowing to the deranged left:
Oh look another celebrity virtue signaling to leftists.
What a breath of fresh air.
— Dissident West (@dissidentwest) January 9, 2026
It’d be terrible to get stuck in one of those fiery but mostly peaceful protests.
— Whatevs (A Contemptible Fool) (@JaeVee4547) January 9, 2026
Did you feel this heartbroken when that police officer Mohamed Noor shot a white woman in Minneapolis in 2017?
— Gen. Manuel NoriAGGIE (@GenNoriAggie) January 9, 2026
Hey John, when 9 people were murdered in 3 days in Minneapolis would you have canceled your shows had they been right after those tragedies?
— Deedo (@Deedo_70) January 9, 2026
The “protesters” are the ones making the State unsafe. Not ICE. ICE agents are removing convicted criminals with long standing removal orders issued by Judges.
— Camp168 (@Camp168) January 10, 2026
It’s too dangerous to be on the ground right now.
But also, we could do without the virtue signaling. pic.twitter.com/KvtjwwOQd3
— XRPresso.io (@xrpresso_io) January 9, 2026
But in fairness to Mulaney, he’s not that political of a guy — and in fact, just this past summer he ripped liberals apart for for threatening his wife after she called some leftist entertainer’s videos annoying.
“Because of this, my wife and my two kids are now receiving violent and threatening comments and messages in her DMs,” the comedian wrote on Instagram in response to the hate being directed at his wife.
“This is absolutely insane and needs to stop. The people doing this are so wildly out of line and so unhelpful to any conversation. You took a nothing comment to a dark and dangerous place. This kind of behavior isn’t activism,” he added.
John Mulaney said his family has received “violent” threats on social media, following wife Olivia Munn’s comments about Ms. Rachel. https://t.co/hjBhbGc0hM pic.twitter.com/wJ2XDc81dI
— E! News (@enews) June 12, 2025
On the other hand, in 2020 the comedian joked that America’s senators could stab President Donald Trump like Julius Caesar.
“It is a Leap Year, as I said. Leap Year began in 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,” Mulaney began.
“Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar, he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives, and they stabbed him to death. That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now,” he added.
In addition to trashing Trump, he also trashed the Founding Fathers.
“I don’t want to dwell on politics, but I dislike the Founding Fathers immensely,” he said. “I hate when people are like, God has never created such a great group of men than the Founding Fathers.”
“Yeah, the ’92 Bulls. That’s a perfect metaphor for the United States. When I was a boy, the United States was like Michael Jordan in 1992. Now the United States is like Michael Jordan now,” he added.
