There’s desperate, and then there’s this.
Hot-button “Team TERF” comedian Dave Chappelle was recently announced as Saturday Night Live‘s upcoming host and the backlash online was immediate.
Page Six reported that the blowback extended to the set, sharing that an anonymous “insider” had warned them of boycotts from within the SNL team. So far, this hasn’t been confirmed by anyone on the team and has been strongly refuted by Chappelle’s own representation.
However, former Wild ‘n Out guest Matt Rife apparently could not let this rumored moment pass him by.
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Rife took to the streets outside 30 Rockefeller Plaza yesterday afternoon to panhandle for a crumb of attention from the comedian, holding a sign that read “Will write for Dave.”
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TMZ reports that Rife was confronted in front of the building during his desperate demonstration by a passerby who “had a problem with their public plea to work with Dave.”
Rife maintained that his begging to work with the noted transphobe was in no way a statement on transphobia. Instead, his take on the situation went exactly this deep: “If you don’t want your job, I will take it.”
It’s doubtful that the show is going to be seeing an exodus over Chappelle’s third hosting gig. This is the same sketch show that had Donald Trump host in 2015, after he’d already launched his presidential campaign by calling Mexican people “rapists” and proposing the Muslim ban.
They also had Twitter’s new disaster Elon Musk (also a wild transphobe in his own right) host just last year. With that episode specifically, cast members reportedly were allowed to choose not to participate. It’s unclear whether that policy is an offer across the board.
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If they have the option to sit out, we may see a couple folks take a week’s vacation. One of the show’s newest players, Molly Kearney, is the program’s first-ever out nonbinary performer. Their run-in with Chappelle is coming just six episodes into their tenure.
A fellow nonbinary writer may also choose to take the week off, if given the option. Celeste Yim, who has written for the show since 2020, seemingly blasted the hosting announcement in an Instagram Story, writing, “I’m trans and non-binary. I use they/them pronouns. Transphobia is murder and it should be condemned.”
Whether openings make themselves available or not, its doubtful Lorne Michaels & Co. will have to resort to scooping up wannabes off the sidewalk.
Neoprene
And OMG, like, what a dumb article, Q-ty! Love how your “articles” can be dreamed up by anyone with a keyboard and a few minutes of free time.
Neoprene
“I’m trans and non-binary. I use they/them pronouns. Transphobia is murder and it should be condemned.”
No, sweetie, transphobia comes in many forms, 99.9999999999999999 percent of the time NOT murder. Hope that helps, dear.
LeBlevsez
Funny, dear, that in a subsequent post you take issue with the word ‘quite’, in an effort to accuse Mister P of hyperbole, after claiming, sweetie, that the occurrence of murders of Trans people is one-in-100 trillion.
Your faux-butch moniker, Neoprene, reveals you before you ever type a single word.
LumpyPillows
Unfortunately, Neoprene is correct. This hysteria does not help.
Creamsicle
Imagine it making sense to leave your job and compare micraggressions to murder because you want to keep your cushy job, but also don’t want to piss off an amorphous Twitter mob who might doxx and gang stalk you for writing jokes.
Mister P
I’ll explain for you both.
Making derogatory comments or jokes about trans people makes it seem as if their lives are not legitimate and quite often that leads to the murder of trans people.
They are a vulnerable population and we should not perpetuate negative images that put them at risk.
Neoprene
Quantify what “quite often” means so I can refute it. Thanks, dear.
bachy
So making jokes about anyone is an indication that their life is not legitimate and leads to murder? Or is it just the transgender that is above comedy?
LumpyPillows
Violence is terrible. Trans people do face stigma and hate from some people. However, these nasty attacks on anyone questioning anything bout trans people is a large part of the problem. Oddly, the most vitriolic comments usually come from straight people thinking they are helping. They aren’t. They are just value signaling to feel better and causing all sorts of chaos in their wake.
If you think Dave Chappell or JK Rowling are transphobic monsters, you really do not know what transphobic hate really is. You are part of the problem. And I will say it again, you probably have not read anything JK has written on the subject and not watched Chappelle’s shows. Reading someone’s tweet or a snippet of the show does not count. That’s how liars work for clicks.
LeBlevsez
So, Lumpy….
Is your ‘analysis’ based on your personal experience with transphobic hate? ‘Cuz it reads like it’s just more of your Lego logic.
Compensating for a disappointing red tsunami?
LumpyPillows
Ah, my fan club. LeB you need to pay dues. I am not a republican. The red wave would have been terrible for the planet. But, you know I am not a republican…you’re just lazy.
Yes, that is my actual experience with trans people. They find people like you to be nauseating. You don’t get them. And, no, you haven’t done your homework and couldn’t tell a real transphobe from a comedian or a pro-LGBT writer who sides with women’s rights when they collide with trans rights. JK made a choice, you can disagree with her choice, but you can’t just scream transphobe like a chicken with its head cut off. So, yeah, I have some logic. I’m also willing to discuss real ideas. You have none. You’re just a name calling troll, still. Oddly, we probably agree with a lot more than we disagree…I’m just not mean like you and can admit it.
LeBlevsez
Lumpy –
I didn’t ask about your experience with Trans people. I asked about your experience with transphobic hate, since you claimed in your post that you had that knowledge. Then you deemed yourself worthy to proclaim “They find people like {LeBlevsez} nauseating.” That statement reveals hubris, not knowledge.
Not a Republican? Okay. But you seem really comfortable sloshing around in their wading pool. You typically do a little virtue-signaling when it comes to criticism of right-wingers, then proffer a mild rebuke of the right-wing claptrap, and then excuse said claptrap as understandable and necessary due to the loony left. But never the reverse. Loony leftists are always inexcusably and unnecessarily wrong. You demonstrated this bias when, in this comment thread, you supported Neoprene’s criticism of Mister P’s supposed hyperbole. Neoprene was orders of magnitude more hyperbolic (one-in-100 trillion, remember?), yet you offered no criticism there. It’s a pattern that betrays your conservative bias, despite your claim of being a moderate. Not a Republican?
What is it? Shame? Subterfuge? Self-deception? Something else?
As regards Chappelle and Rowling, I mentioned neither of them, nor have I ever called them “monsters”.
Rowling has admitted her fears of both transwomen (invading our spaces) and transmen (deserting us women). Despite her claims of affinity with Trans people, she has allied herself with people and organizations that are openly hostile, most notably the LGB Alliance. (Look ’em up. They’re so anti-trans that they’re willing to sacrifice marriage equality in order to spite Trans people. Whoopsie, they didn’t mean it, until they did again. They also think conversion therapy is just spiffy and schools should prohibit clubs for LGBT students, among other brilliant ideas.) Common purpose, I suppose. Excercise that moderate approach and visit glaad . org / gap / jk-rowling (delete spaces) and revel in Rowlings ‘choice’.
Chappelle? No hatred. Not even anger. Just disappointment that he’s now so lost.
LumpyPillows
Yeah, you really can’t get out of your own way. Sometimes other people are right. You can’t seem to figure that out. Why do I say things that some republicans also say? Because I think the idea is correct, not because they said it.
I usually find Neoprene to be offensive. I often say so. Unless he isn’t wrong. See, it is about the idea. Think on that – you aren’t a mindless repeater like so many here – at least not always.
Yes, I added some new ideas in response to your two sentence nasty gram. Sorry for attempting a conversation. I surely won’t be chastised for it. The topic was Dave Chappelle…you did read the article, yes?
What you and your kind get so very wrong is that you live in a bubble and have no regard for how truly offensive so much of what you say is to the majority of people. Like the whole TERF offensiveness. It is why we lose elections to fascists. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why you stubbornly refuse to admit this and deal with it.
Mister P
If it happens at all it’s too much.
Dick Mayhem
I support anyone not wanting to work for/with this creep. Imagine if his act was filled with brutal homophobic ranting. Everyone here would be up in arms.
I feel for the new cast members and their ability to say “no” without further consequences.
As for writing for SNL being a cushy job, my impression is the opposite.
LumpyPillows
I’m guessing you have not watched Chappell’s shows. It is more complicated than your simplistic opinion.
bachy
I’m not on board with the Dave Chapelle hate and I’ll tell you why.
I can’t help feeling in this instance (and in many others) that the LGBT community is, as per usual, creating enemies where there really weren’t any to begin with. “Twitter Outrage” is not a strategy that will help to further our political aims. And comedy is not a defeat-able enemy.
If you’re “outraged” and condemnatory about every varying POV, if you’re dictatorial about how others should think, feel and what they should say about a complex social issue – and if you can’t laugh at yourself – you are not going to generate compassion, connection, understanding or allies.
You’re instead going to find yourself in a very lonely place. At an address that’s probably down the street from Mar-a-Lago.
Fahd
SNL just doesn’t hold my attention any longer (“but Queerty does?”). However, a scab is a scab, and I have zero sympathy for anyone who wants to take a job from someone who might withhold their labor in a legitimate matter of personal conscientious belief. What a jerk this guy is!
Yooper
“That beast is a network of individuals who wake up wanting to be offended, who want to feel the indignity of the insult and the self-righteousness of their reaction, because it makes them feel better about themselves.”
“In general, those outraged people silence our conversation. They make us politically correct and occasionally highlight real injustice, yes, but they also make us less inclined to speak our mind.”
Joan Rivers and the power of not apologizing, Esquire 2014 article written by Paul Schrodt
LumpyPillows
Joan died in time not to see what the left has become. She would have ripped them a new one. They would have tried to cancel her. It would have been like when the fascists came for Kathy Griffon and the woke left let them eat her – tied up in knots with their morals.