I started watching his latest Netfux special and he just wasn’t funny to me at all. Bragging about all his wealth, buying a white hippy town, defending his Saudi Arabia sellout because “haha I’m a rich n*gga”, and then a joke about a falcon killing a trans and “his dick popped out”, but it turns out killing a trans person only being a misdemeanour in SA. Har har. Just predicable, and felt like a real grift. Turned it off and watched some show with Fran Lebowitz instead - that one was at least pretty funny, if not also a grift.
Am I in the echo chamber?
Chamber… Chamber… Chamber
No, it’s everyone else who’s in the echo chamber.
Sorry but that’s a lefty only thing ok?
/s
Maybe there’s something worse out there, but his trans jokes I’ve seen are far from hateful. When Chappelle first got flak over this I was afraid the jokes would be flat out evil. They could hardly be more mild.
Can anyone point to a particular joke that’s tearing trans people down? I don’t mean poking fun, I want to see the hate you all accuse him of.
They don’t care. They just read from some place that Chappelle is evil now so he must be shunned.
We got rid of fundamental religion with somebody telling exactly how to think about everything, but I guess some people just cannot live without one.
It boggles my mind that this is the same guy who walked away from a multi-year, multimillion dollar TV deal with Comedy Central because he saw a white dude laughing a little too hard at his jokes about race. The fact that he could have that moment of reflection, but not extend it to other marginalized groups, just shows the complete lack of empathy he has in his soul.
I think his receiving the Mark Twain prize went to his head.
You would be surprised at how many latinos voted for trump.
Looks like he’s found his happy place
I see that he is still punching down.
I gauge all of my work against regimes that murder people, so this seems reasonable. Fucking asshole.
Fuck Dave & his dumbass jokes too.
Should’ve stayed “retired.” Should’ve listened to his dad and got out, but no… gotta suck on that green dick.
“They said, ‘Well, Saudi Arabia killed a journalist,’ and rest in peace, Jamal Khashoggi. I’m sorry that he got murdered in such a heinous fashion. And also, look, bro, Israel’s killed 240 journalists in the last three months, so I didn’t know y’all were still counting.”
he does have one well-thought message, albeit with incorrect addressing and postage
now that i look it up, he does already condemn israel much more than palestine (and gotten flak for it). he even called israel a war criminal back in oct 2023. i wonder how this hasn’t caused certain senators including MAGA to try and cancel him yet…
Not having heard the jokes under “discussion” here, I cannot comment on those specifically. But overall Chappelle’s message rings loud and clear (to me) that LGBTQIA+ people, at the end of the day, are still “passing”, whereas a black man in that part of the USA can never present as anything other than black, and that makes a HUGE difference.
I’ll let him tell it in his own words though: https://youtube.com/shorts/hac3bwgo90g
The point does not stands on its own, rainbow people absolutely can have a hard time “passing”, just ask the many gay kids bullied and harassed even when deep in the closet, without even mentioning trans folks.
Even if blackout drunk I managed to forget that, though, “you are fine if you hide who you are” is still a shitty argument to endorse.
A black trans person would absolutely have a hard time passing, but Dave’s point is that being open about one’s LGBTQIA+ status is a choice (arguably not much of one, except that people do it so… it CAN be put away, when someone is ready to “pass”).
Mainly he’s saying that black people are people too, and should be considered as such. He has pointed out how unfair he considers the situation that when white gay men wanted marriage equality, a Supreme Court decision came something like 10 years after the major push started, with everyone in Hollywood backing that. Meanwhile, black people have been waiting for equal rights in the USA for 400+ years, and it’s like “when is it our turn?”
It seems all too convenient for white men who are also gay or trans or whatever to call it quits when they get theirs, leaving POC behind in the dust, again.
I find like many people judge him without ever even listening to his material, so of course cannot really understand it.
That’s dumb as fuck.
Typical whataboutist deflection. He tries to hide the fact that he is a snivelling piece of shit.
not really he is just showing the gigantic hypocrisy of some woke fighters.
He’s a Muslim, I think it was safe to assume he’s not a fan of Israel BEFORE the current iteration of the genocide against Palestinians tbh.
Though I don’t even remember his trans jokes being intentionally malicious or anything. More like… Just poor taste and then he doubled down on it.
It hardly matters at this point. Even if it wasn’t malicious at first, it became malicious as soon as he doubled down, and tripled down, and quadrupled down…
“Hitler loved my joke about gassing the Jews” isn’t exactly proving your point, Dave.
I’m sure the proud boys or kkk would love some of the racist jokes I’ve heard at work.
I wonder how Chapel would appreciate them.
Becoming a real life Clayton Bigsby.
I believe it. I’m sure the King requested that everyone have a good time too.
as long as you follow the rules fozzi bear did in family guy, this probably how it went in saudia arabia, like fozzi bear skit.
To this day, I will never not be convinced he went down the far-right bigotry rabbithole because Elon Musk and/or other oligarchs are paying him to take that stance.
It seems no coincidence to me that after he started attacking the trans community, he invited Musk on stage and tried to defend him from the booing crowd.
I’m not sure the time line supports that. Dave was making tasteless and bigoted jokes about trans folk well before Elon/Netflix special. Who knows, maybe money was secretly changing hands. But even if so, Dave was the one to sell himself out. All the blame still falls directly to him.
He got too rich, had a crisis of conscience, then took some time in Africa to end up deciding that money > conscience.
In short, no one’s “paying him” to be a bigot, he’s just the typical rich piece of shit. He defends other rich pieces of shit because that’s what rich pieces of shit do.
Dude had enough money and it probably stretched even further in Africa.
He’s been out of the spotlight for a while and is out of touch. Super disappointing comeback.
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