Well, Dave Chappelle is at it again. It’s 2018 and the 44-year-old comedian is still making homophobic remarks and trying to pass them off as jokes.
In his latest Netflix special, which was released on New Year’s Eve, the controversial comic takes aim at the #MeToo movement and the increasing number of high profile Hollywood figures, members of the media, and politicians who have been accused of sexual misconduct.
Related: Kevin Spacey comes out as gay while addressing Anthony Rapp sexual assault allegations
“Well, here we are in Los Angeles,” Chappelle jokes at the top of the show. “The world capital of rape and dick breath.”
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“Everybody is raping like hotcakes!” he continues. “You know, I’m starting to get worried. I’ve been in show business for 30 years, I had no idea how much danger I was in.”
Later in the special, Chappelle brings up Kevin Spacey.
“I mean, it is really bad out here,” he says. “Kevin Spacey’s out here grabbing men by the p*ssy! I didn’t even know that was possible!”
Oh, but he doesn’t stop there.
Chappelle goes on to unleash a string of “jokes” about Anthony Rapp, who was the first to accuse Spacey of sexual assault when he came forward last October to say he was molested by the Oscar winner at a house party when he was just 14 years old.
“I’ve been to a lot of parties in my day,” Chapelle remarks. “Never been to a good one that had 14-year-old boys in it.”
Related: Kevin Spacey faces many more claims he “routinely preyed” on young men
The irony of the whole situation, the comic continues, is that actor Rapp “grew up to be gay anyway,” which means “Kevin Spacey sniffed that sh*t out like a truffle pig.”
Chapelle stops just short of saying Spacey “turned” Rapp gay before finding a way to blame then 14-year-old Rapp for the assault.
“Not to victim-blame, but it seems like the kind of situation that a gay 14-year-old kid would get himself into,” he says.
The “saddest part” of the whole thing, Chapelle laments, is that he will never “get to know how House of Cards ends.”
Are you offended? Well, get over it! Chappelle says.
“You guys gotta remember, I’m not saying it to be mean,” he says in the special. “I’m saying it because it’s funny.”
What do you think? Are Chappelle’s latest remarks funny or inappropriate?
barkomatic
I watched the Netflix special in question, and he praised the gay community for being “fearless”. I thought some of what he said was indeed funny, and some of what he said was both funny and probably reflected a lack of understanding about what he was joking about. As a gay guy, I can laugh at myself. Anyway, people don’t have to like every comedian out there and if you feel that Chappelle is insensitive you should not attend his shows or watch his special. You can also voice your opinion about the whole thing.
What I won’t do, is try to prevent others from watching a comedian even if *I* feel they are offensive.
kiriakis1
This is Queerty so almost nobody else will post a response to this that is as reasonable, well-thought out and unhysterical as you have.
dinard38
I agree with kiriakis1. That was a well thought out comment. Personally I LOVE Dave Chappelle. He’s extremely funny and I love his wit. I like the way he brings an unique perspective on social issues. I guess you can call me old school. I come from a generation who didn’t get offended so easily. Nowadays it’s like walking through a landmine, trying to avoid setting someone off.
am_psi
It must be so unpleasant to hang out with the perpetually offended crowd. I feel like their only form of entertainment is vying to see which of them can be the most pious.
Crystix
You seem perpetually offended by people who are “perpetually offended.” Or at least you feel the need to comment about how dumb it is people get offended anytime queerty covers it. I think the snowflake doth protest too much.
Brian
Thank God for Dave Chappelle. This is absolutely his brand of humor and I am SO glad he didn’t soften it, even though he knew fearmongerers like Queerty would completely twist his words into some sort of statement on rape instead jokes in a standup comedy show.
I think 3 decades is more than enough time for tragedy to become comedy. We need more good, inappropriate humor in the world more now than ever.
crowebobby
So he’d have been okay with it happening to his daughter as long as she ended up straight anyway.
inbama
Good answer, but the pig-and-truffles line is actually brilliant.
Xzamilloh
This is probably why comedy should never be re-written by people with a motive… because stripped of the context, it looks really bad on Chappelle’s end, but having watched it myself, it’s a borderline smear job the way this was put out there. It’s 2018, and I am going to do better from now on about just accepting stories at face value. Do better, Q
chris33133
There’s a YouTube series in which comedians explain how comedy works at the edge of the outrageous. It’s had some people whose work I really respect on it — such as Chappelle, Bill Burr, Monty Python’s John Cleese, and the like. I even think that Tig Ngaro has been on there.
To make their points, the participants share jokes that could be “unfunny” for people who are easily offended and/or aren’t looking to laugh. What I’m reading here and about what he said about Louis CK seems that he meant to outrage and to offend in his Netflix special. But as Chris Rock and Kevin Hart have said, Dave Chappelle is the funniest and most-on target comedian working today.
Crystix
Imagine that, chappelle opened his ignorant mouth again. Next you’ll tell me the sky is blue
dinard38
I see a comment above that you made to someone about being perpetually offended by those who are perpetually offended. Hmmmmmm…..maybe you should take a look in the mirror.
Kangol
The two series give a fuller perspective on Dave Chappelle’s comments, and I agree that in context they’re not exactly what’s being reported here, but: I also think he makes light of child sexual assault and sexual harassment of women. Whether Rapp or Spacey was gay or not, Spacey shouldn’t have climbed on top of a 14-year-old. I mean, Chappelle’s defense of that obnoxious SOB Louis C. K. annoyed me as much as the Rapp statement. That said, I think he or anyone should be able to say what he feels, I get how edgy the comments were (and the bit about Spacey sniffing out Rapp and other guys like “a truffle pig” is funny even given the horrible aspects of what Spacey was doing), but if you say potentially offensive sh!t, be ready to deal with the consequences. That’s all.
KaiserVonScheiss
Hahaha. I really have to watch it. It sounds hilarious. The last ones he did were pretty good too. If it triggers the SJWs, he’s probably doing something right.
Kangol
Beware, because Dave Chappelle triggers the kinds of people who run around saying “SJW.”
Vince
I did last night. I don’t have a problem with him here since he’s pretty much equally offensive towards everyone. I just didn’t find it that funny. Allot of the standard N*gger this and N*gger that stuff. I did like his humor about getting older though.
PinkoOfTheGange
So dose the does it take a lot of time to find poo to be outraged about?
It must be tiring to be so woke.
jasentylar
Chappelle is funny most times. Like the first commenter said, there are other comedians to watch if you don’t like what this one has to say.
irbaboon
I ain’t gonna lie that truffle pig comment made me LOL
tham
Yeah I’m not offended.
I have to say, Rapp’s story doesn’t make a lot of sense…it really really doesn’t.
Knight
because the thought of Kevin Spacey sexually assaulting a minor when it’s already been established he has done so repeatedly over 4 decades now is so hard for you to comprehend? As they say; no brains, no head-aches…
tham
No, it’s just an odd story. He goes to a party where he knows no one. So he goes to the bedroom, gets on the the bed and watches TV for 5 hours.
I think Rapp’s story is more of a cautionary tale of bad parenting than anything else.
Knight
Tham it seriously does not matter why Rapp decided to watch TV or not. He should not have to explain his actions leading up to being assaulted by Spacey. You seriously missed the entire point, which is NO MINOR should have to expect being assaulted by ANYONE. Regardless of the bad decisions/debatable parenting, Rapp should not be blamed. I don’t understand why this concept is so difficult for so many people to grasp.
Greg
I thought the same thing. He’s a gay 14 year-old at an adult party. I think it was a cast party or something like that. He was acting in a play at the time. He wasn’t a regular 14 year-old being a working actor. I would think he already knows about sex at 14. There had to be alcohol at the party. He was probably flitting around the party, flirting with the older guys. Spacey was only 27. So, I didn’t really get that Spacey was being predatory with this guy.
Mykey
There’s always the wierdos like Greg who think that a grown ass man should give in to temptation just because a kid flirted with him! Whether it happens that way or not, who’s the adult here???
JungleBoi
It doesn’t. Rapp’s own account is that no clothes came off and that Spacey respected the “no” and he left. There is no assault here and it is an insult and offense to those who where truly assaulted. He is a self-absorbed queen who wanted on the “Me, too” train.
Knight
If a Christian Evangelical came anywhere CLOSE to saying these things, they would be tarred and feathered by the media, the left and of course, those little darlings at Queerty. But Dave Chapelle is black and muslim…so of course he’s just “controversial” and gets his “N-pass”. Oh, what…”N-pass”? didn’t like it? Well get over it….right?
Xzamilloh
I would love to meet the strawman you’re arguing with, because he seems really talkative. I say that because NOTHING you mentioned comes close to pertaining to this article, which already butchered the delivery of Chappelle’s jokes to make it sound homophobic.
Knight
Not my fault you’re too dim-witted to follow along with a conversation. And I get why you’re hung up on wanting to meet straw-men, since you’re most likely too ugly and fat to get with a real man. Hence the trolling.
Xzamilloh
How can I follow along with a conversation between you and your dyslexic strawman because you’re reading something different from what is on here and it’s leading you to a conclusion that is as unfounded as the religion you constantly cheerlead for on here.
Knight
XZam no one is expecting you to do anything here…just as I wouldn’t expect higher math from someone competing in the special olympics. Just sit down and try not to mess yourself. That’s about all we can hope for with you.
Xzamilloh
Now there’s math to be done?? Oh, boy, I better get my pencil and paper out and try to keep up with whatever the hell you’re talking about. Now, are you still bitching about Chappelle being a black Muslim comedian so he gets a pass while virtue signaling for Christian evangelicals in some attempt to make Christians victims of… what, exactly?
But, I’ll try not to mess myself. Of course if I did, I could just blend my crap in with what’s coming out of your mouth and you’d never know.
Knight
Nothing it coming from my “mouth”…since I’ve been typing on a computer/posting to a website. You really are an imbecile..although we’ve established that already.
The point (and you’re the ONLY one who seems to have missed it) is that Queerty has not taken a stand at Chapelle’s use of the N-word or commentary on Rapp. They have left it very open-ended, since they are most likely too cowardly to have an opinion BECAUSE Chapelle is a black muslim (comedian being debatable). And my point was had a white Christian Evangelical made these same comments, Queerty would not have wasted a nanosecond (look it up) condemning this “racist hate speech”. Call it a double-standard, call it hypocrisy…just call it a night, since you are really too stupid and tedious to deal with.
Tête Carrée
@Knight
It must be really tiresome to have to deal with morons all the time. Good thing your boyfriend’s a straw man. No backtalk or it’s the match for him. Seems like you’re not enough “real man” for the “fat and ugly” ones either (that was a genius level insult) ‘coz y’aint makin’ no friends here!
Why don’t you take your bag of rocks and crawl back into whatever hole you crawled out of?
Mykey
Exactly what I was thinking! Nothing funny about it anyway! And the comments defending this piece of shit and even wierder
Knight
Mykey agreed.
JungleBoi
and if my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a wagon. Chapelle makes no attempt at telling others what to believe and what is moral or not. Your assertions are a false moral equivalency.
Greg
I didn’t see the special, but I did laugh when I read the truffles joke.
gaylogic
I’m happy that Dave Chappelle exists