Update:Comedy > Politics: Dave Chappelle: unfunny SNL writers jealousy the king is hosting again

The Closer?

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Are you really that dense?

 

Where's the cult thread when you need it? Anyways, I watched the new Chappelle comedy special on Netflix and do recommend.

 

The Closer
It was definitely funny

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I really liked the special. The Mike Pence bit and some others were hilarious. DaBaby was probably the worst point he made tho. Fell flat to me at least.

 

That would have been a good listen if it was a podcast, but as a standup it was bum.

 

You should actually read that column, tinman, even if it's from the New York Post, which loves sensationalism. The quote below is on target. Trans people suffer from bigotry and violence everyday. The irony of Chappelle defending the bigoted opinions of J.K. Rowling, when as a Black man, he knows all too well the consequences of bigotry, hasn't been lost on those of the LGBTQ+ community. I admire the novels Rowling has written, just as I admire the science fiction of Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, yet ardently disagree with his politics, but Rowling's opinion about the Trans community amounts to excrement.

In “The Closer,” Chappelle declares that he’s joining Rowling in “Team TERF!” (the acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminist), and conflated rapper DaBaby’s homophobic statements at a show over the summer with systemic racism.

“In our country, you can shoot and kill a [N-word] — but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings,” Chappelle says onstage, referencing a 2018 shooting incident involving the rapper at a Walmart in North Carolina. The 19-year-old victim later died.

The brewing backlash is ample — but perhaps most shocking is the reaction from one of Netflix’s own: Jaclyn Moore, executive producer and showrunner of the streaming giant’s “Dear White People.”

Moore bluntly declared her self “done” with Netflix.

“I love so many of the people I’ve worked with at Netflix,” she shared on Twitter after detailing her own transition in a passionate post. “Brilliant people and executives who have been collaborative and fought for important art,” Moore continued. “[But] I will not work with them as long as they continue to put out and profit from blatantly and dangerously transphobic content.”

‘Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.’

GLAAD, in a statement about ‘The Closer’
Meanwhile, the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights advocacy group focused on the LGBTQ+ community, goes so far as to prod Netflix to pull “The Closer” from its menu.

“With 2021 on track to be the deadliest year on record for transgender people in the United States — the majority of whom are Black transgender people — Netflix should know better,” NBJC executive director David Johns said in a statement to Deadline. “Perpetuating transphobia perpetuates violence. Netflix should immediately pull ‘The Closer’ from its platform and directly apologize to the transgender community.”

LGBTQ+ advocacy leaders at GLAAD also called out the acclaimed comic’s pattern of degrading jokes, declaring: “Chappelle’s brand has become synonymous with ridiculing trans people and other marginalized communities.”

https://nypost.com/2021/10/07/critics-blast-dave-chappelle-netflix-for-ridiculing-trans-people/

 

To say it's "Chappell vs Politicians" is kind of a way of diminishing the legit criticism of Chappelle... who is like my favorite comedian ever.

Chappelle is going out of his way on this new stand up to create controversy too, and get some sort of "glad he had the balls to say it" response. I watched it last night, and I think he missed the mark. Bill Burr is someone that walks that line too, but often can hit it.

I think the attempt that Chappelle is going for is to try and get gay people to laugh at themselves in the way that he's attempted to do with black people as well. However what he doesn't remember well though is that the reason he canceled his own show basically (ahem... cancel culture) is because he admitted that he looked at the crowd of almost all white people laughing at jokes about black people, and realized that he is doing exactly THE OPPOSITE of what he was intending, and he was basically ashamed of what he was doing.

With his "lets all laugh at Trans & Gays" shtick he's not looking out into the crowd and seeing a bunch of gays laughing at themselves. Instead he needs to look harder and see that the dudes out there laughing are more than likely to be Joe Rogan loving Limp Biscuit listening tough guy douches.

Let's just never forget that Dave Chappelle is the original Cancel Culture critic of Dave Chappelle. Over time, I think the Dave Chappelle that finally looked out at that crowd of white people laughing about black people will look back at this Dave Chappelle and say damn maybe he just needs to saying "I don't get it with Trans people!!" and maybe get to know someone in the community and learn like an intelligence sympathetic human being.

 

The pull the CLOSER and I am done with Netflix

"I set up a college for for Daphne's kid . . . . .. I don't know what the Trans community did for the kid . . ." - Dave Chappelle

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back into them illegal download streets

 

Nah there's no room for nuance on trans activism. JK Rowling isn't a bigot. The problem is their leaders are terrorizing the world with some of their nonsensical demands.

 

My gripe as a fan as that it wasn’t really jokes, it’s was more like a political monologue on one single topic for an hour, jokes were sprinkled in few and very far in between, with it mostly being comically carried simply by his mannerisms that we love.

The actual topic, I don’t really have strong feelings on it either way, was just a fan trying to watch a funny standup. That wasn’t standup, that was podcast material, a political dissertation.

 

Ya it's a competition between them and Xi Jinping