A former writer for "Saturday Night Live" returned to host on a rare Feb. 29, making a joke the Leap Year started under Julius Caesar should also bring back a brutal assassination of a leader.
"It is a Leap Year, as I said, Leap Year began in 45 B.C. under Julius Caesar," John Mulaney began in his opening monologue. "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, 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's joke was similar to the Shakespeare in the Park production that dressed a President Donald Trump-looking character as Caesar and brutally slain him – a depiction that was rejected by conservatives.
"I asked my lawyer if I could make that joke and he called another lawyer and that lawyer said, 'yes,'" Mulaney said.
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