Documents Reveal Secret Service Investigated John Mulaney Over SNL Joke About Senators Stabbing the President – By Jerry Lambe (Law and Crime) / January 20 2021
New documents obtained by the Associated Press on Tuesday reveal that the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) opened an investigation into comedian John Mulaney for a joke he told while hosting Saturday Night Live that the agency believed to be about then-president Donald Trump.
Hosting the show on Feb. 29, also known as “leap day,” Mulaney’s joke centered on Roman emperor Julius Caesar, who in 45 BC introduced the 365-day calendar which included an extra day every four years.
“He started the leap year in order to correct the calendar and we still do it to this day,” Mulaney said. “Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar was, uh, 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.”
According to the documents obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the agency opened its investigation into “inappropriate statements regarding President Trump” on Mar. 1, the day after the show aired, and kept the case open until last month.
