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Arynne Wexler's 'racist' jokes about Zohran Mamdani draw criticism
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A female comedian has been hit with backlash after sharing a clip featuring jokes about New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The jokes have been slammed for their ‘racist’ nature and even branded ‘disgusting’.
Arynne Wexler’s ‘disgusting’ Zohran Mamdani jokes
In the clip, which has been viewed 2.6m times, Wexler could be seen standing at a lectern delivering jokes at Commentary Magazine’s annual fundraising roast on November 8.
The idea what that the roast would target Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, but Mamdani ended up catching a significant amount of strays in the crossfire.
Wexler described the mayor as ‘The Grand Mufti of New York’ and went on to say that Mamdani and his wife Rama Duwaji ‘keep things fresh’ by using ‘old speeches of Ayatollah Khamenei’ as their ‘foreplay’.
It’s off to a spicy start - but things only escalated from there.
Wexler then went on to say that the pair met on Hinge - which is actually true - however, she then added: “It’s pretty interesting, given his background, I assumed he bought her.”
After pausing for effect, Wexler then said: “When she was 12.”
Then, after more laughter in the room, she tagged on: “Guys, relax, I’m kidding - she was 13.
“No, actually they met on JDate, but the J stands for ‘jihad’”.
It’s a lot - and it hasn’t gone down well online.
Arynne Wexler hit with racism accusations after her performance
Online, Wexler has been accused of targeting Mamdani because of his background, his race and his religion.
To be fair, it’s pretty clear that’s what she’s taking aim at from the video.
One person wrote: “Oh racism disguised as a joke.”
Another said: “This is just straight up racism.”
Even professional windbag Piers Morgan chimed in, branding Wexler’s comments ‘disgusting’.
At the event, other roasters included right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro, so we can start to build up a picture of the room.
Who is Arynne Wexler?
Wexler is a female comedian who describes herself on her own website as ’saying out loud what you’re too afraid to think’.
She also self-describes as ‘unapologetic’ and ‘bold’ and claims to have a 'special talent for looking at the world through a different lens’.
That’s certainly true.
It’s been successful for her, as she has 290.6k followers on X and this latest Mamdani video has reached almost three million people.
Whether it reached them for the right reasons is up to you.