A conservative comedic duo said its show was canceled by a Tallahassee venue for political reasons.

But the Wilbury's general manager said the Gaines Street venue doesn't object to the HodgeTwins' humor just their "hateful" content.

The HodgeTwins, stand-up comedians who tour and post humor videos on YouTube, announced the cancellation on Twitter and Facebook Friday afternoon. The post said the show was canceled because "the venue owner does not like our political views."

They used the hashtags "maga" and "trump2020." The tweet and Facebook posts have since been deleted.

The comedians, who boast 276,000 Twitter fans, were slated to perform Saturday night at The Wilbury. The owners, Ryan Smith and City Commissioner Jeremy Matlow, and general manager, Brian Johnson, decided to cancel the performance after a video posted on the HodgeTwins YouTube made fun of a transgender person who identifies as a woman.

"We don't tolerate transphobia," Johnson said. "That was the sole reason. It wasn’t political. We thought that it was hateful and it goes against our beliefs."

In a Dec. 29 video, the African American comedians play a clip from a viral video in which a person raises their voice at an employee in GameStop for not using the pronouns the person preferred. During the rest of the four-minute video, they mock the person's appearance and voice.

"You need to do a better job of being a real transgender," one of them said in the video that has nearly 103,000 views.

One post on the HodgeTwins Facebook page, which has 800,000 fans, included a screenshot that the performance was at The Moon and was canceled from there. Scott Carswell, The Moon's owner, said he was one of the backup venues approached by the promoter to do the show, but the comedians never confirmed.

Both The Moon and The Wilbury's Facebook pages have received a slew of "would not recommend" reviews since the comedians posted the cancellation.

The Tallahassee Democrat reached out to the HodgeTwins for comment on Facebook, Twitter and e-mail but did not hear back.

Contact Ashley White at adwhite@tallahassee.com or on Twitter @AshleyyDi.