Comedian Dave Chappelle has sparked outrage over a number of queer-themed jokes in his new Netflix special The Closer. In his set, Chappelle criticizes the backlash to rapper DaBaby’s attack on gay people, and makes several ignorant jokes about the anatomy of transgender people.
Chappelle’s targeting of transgender people has invited the most criticism. In the special, he rants that “Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact.”
“Now, I am not saying that to say trans women aren’t women,” he continues, “I am just saying that those p*ssies that they got… you know what I mean? I’m not saying it’s not p*ssy, but it’s Beyond P*ssy or Impossible P*ssy. It tastes like p*ssy, but that’s not quite what it is, is it? That’s not blood. That’s beet juice.”
“I’m team TERF!” he adds at one point.
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At another point in the show, Chappelle seems to preemptively deflect backlash.
“Any of you who have ever watched me know that I have never had a problem with transgender people,” he says. “If you listen to what I’m saying, clearly, my problem has always been with white people.”
At still another point, Chappelle addresses the recent backlash over DaBaby’s homophobic remarks during a concert, joking the rapper “punched the LGBTQ community right in the AIDS.” He also makes reference to an incident where DaBaby was involved in a fight in a North Carolina Walmart in 2018. One person was shot and killed in the incident.
“In our country, you can shoot and kill a n*gg*r,” Chappelle says. “But you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings.”
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“If slaves had oil and booty shorts on, we might have been free 100 years sooner,” he says, comparing the LGBTQ community’s progress to the injustice still faced by African-Americans.
Chappelle also mentions Caitlyn Jenner, claiming white privilege allowed her to change genders while Muhammed Ali faced criticism when he changed his name from Cassius Clay. (Forget that Muhammed Ali changed his name in 1965, whereas Jenner transitioned in 2015…thankfully, times change.)
Chappelle seems to forget that African-American (or indeed, any non-white) queer people exist. He overlooks the LGBTQ people who have stood with #BlackLivesMatter to oppose police violence against African-Americans (including Patrisse Cullors, a lesbian who co-founded the movement). He seems to ignore the homophobia openly gay African-American men, such as Lil Nas X, face from other African-American men, or how DaBaby’s remarks actually showed hostility toward any gay men in the crowd. Chappelle doesn’t seem to understand the difference between sex and gender, or how his “jokes” about transgender people fuel the very real danger trans people still face on a daily basis by living openly.
Chappelle closes his special by saying he won’t talk about LGBTQ people or issues in his comedy anymore. Is that supposed to be reassuring?
“All I ask of your community, with all humility: Will you please stop punching down on my people?” he asks.
He might do well to stop punching down himself.
jayceecook
Dave Chappelle doesn’t seem to know anything about anything.
basils_Herald
Chapelle has innovated a lot for sketch comedy in the past, but this isn’t new – it’s just hateful and petty. Also, for someone so outraged about human rights progress, what human rights campaigns has Chapelle helped anyway? Quit throwing shade and join a cause rather than blame trans people for racism in America.
LumpyPillows
You, like everyone commenting here, didn’t even bother to watch the show. Now that’s funny.
G-Man
That’s very disappointing I used to like him.
Matthewnow
Me too. Just for that, he can’t suck it. Read a book a-hole. The world does revolve around your view of the world.
Vince
Besides Ellen DeGeneres he’s one of the richest comedians in the world. That’s the platform he stands on. I’ve watched him a couple times and I don’t get it. He comes off as smug and not funny to me.
Jon in Canada
Another homophobic black person who hides behind his race to deflect criticism of his bigotry and the hate he spews. If you’re black and you attack other miniorites, you’re filth, nothing more.
prime32
so you’re being racist to call out homophobia? LOL you’re part of the problem
Kangol2
You’re as bad as he is.
Liquid Silver
Did you just try for a halfway intelligent post on Queerty? It was a really nice effort and I appreciated the comparison, but it’s a pity most other people just couldn’t understand it.
It’s odd how many black folk love to scream about racist white folk (oh, darlings, I’m so looking at many of you), but can’t take it when it’s glaring at them right in the face. Bigotry, thy name is Chappelle. And thy name is also so many of you finger-pointers.
Educate him or, frankly, take the punishment. You’ve got a big problem in your community, and it starts with the churches.
kevstar
If you are gay and you’re racist against black or Asians, you are filth. Which probably equals about 25% of white gays.
Liquid Silver
If you’re black and you’re racist against whites, Asians or homophobic, you’re filth. Which equates to about 25% of black folk I’ve met.
Seriously, drop the effing Bibles. And stop blaming whitey for all your problems. Also, Asians aren’t your issue either.
See? I can play your sad little games too, and be right.
Bosch
Jon says it’s hypocritical to be a racist if you’re a racial minority, but you guys think that’s a racist statement?
So if I say it’s hypocritical to be a homophobe if you’re gay, then that’s a homphobic statement?
Any member of a social minority who doesn’t understand the harm of bigotry and prejudice is an idiot, regardless of their skin colour. Turning this into a white Vs black issue is just a manifestation of your own racism.
prime32
In the black community and it starts with the church. LOL Yeah like the catholic church hasn’t rapped little boys for 100 years and refuses to apologize or acknowledge. Everyone has work to do but you need a little history lesson yourself.
Liquid Silver
Ah, let’s now play up a good whataboutism! Next up, “What Whitey Did To Me, Version #293283.”
Terrycloth
I watched a standup of his.dont care for his delivery..he also mumbles quiet a bit he is hard to understand .I find most of today’s so called ” comedians” not very funny .give me George Carlin, made you think as well as laugh , Robin Williams,I likeJim Gaffigan as well…
Vince
Yes those were truly the greats of comedy and will last the test of time.
Honestly I’m just not into the tired Black or Mexican stand up comedians like George Lopez using their race as comedy. It’s stale, lazy, and just boring. Of course it works on their target audience.
CKNJ
unfunny useless c*** can just go f*** himself. Bye Felicia!
Mister P
Chapellle makes a good point about the baby being involved in a murder, but he was called out for his tirade.
I think he should have been called out for both.
BrownFriedRice
Dave Chappelle leaves out the fact DaBaby was acting in self-defence. That’s why he didn’t receive backlash, not because society cares more about someone offending the gay community than committing murder or whatever bullsh*t narrative he’s trying to push.
lemisanthrope
It’s not a good point. It’s based on false premises, logic leaps, and omission of key details. Firstly, it’s a false premise to think most people know about Da Baby’s past legal troubles. Then, it’s a false premise to think people think he is guilty of murder when he claimed self defense and his charges were dropped. So, those are false pretenses to his argument and then he conveniently omits the fact that Da Baby’s homophobic rants WERE ON CAMERA AND ALL OVER THE INTERNET. Meanwhile, we can’t know what happened with his legal case because there’s no evidence of murder.
The thing is, a lot of people are under the impression Dave is smart and makes good points. That’s not the case. It’s all about the CONFIDENCE in which he delivers his stupid remarks. Most people are impressed by that and not smart enough to think critically about what he’s saying. They want to believe he’s some sage. He’s really just like Donald Trump. Confidently wrong.
Max
ignorant comedian. not every human passed from between their mother’s legs. think more about it, Dave.
prime32
every human being on earth had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. You’re right! Her legs or C section.
kevstar
How was DaBaby acting out in self -defense? That’s a new one on me. He made his statement unprovoked. But the good news is that soon, or very soon, DaBaby will either end up dead or in prison!
Charlie in Charge
I will say that I wish gay folks could have been more forgiving of Kevin Hart when he apologized for his jokes when he wanted to host the Oscars. That seemed like a moment to be gracious.
DaBaby? not so much. He didn’t deserve a lot of leniency from us. It’s a bummer, I like Chappelle’s comedy and even gritted teeth through the LGBT car ride joke in his last episode and could see the humor in it but now he just seems really set on finding us insufferable.
barryaksarben
What an ignorant pos. We gays have always been there in the fight for ALL equal rights. IF he knew shit he would know Coretta Scott King was a huge supporter of gay rights . I have the speech here on my desk as I have looked at often since she said it. None of us are equal till all of us are. Does this fool not know any gays or trans of color cuz Id be glad to introduce him to some of my friends. Go back to youjr insane asylum as you arent fixed yet. We arent attacking the rappers they are attacking US. QUit lying . Are you just lying or are you just lying to yourself. Stop punching down asshole
prime32
LOL NO! Not “all’! A lot of gay white men, in particular, turned a blind eye to civil rights. Married women and lived secret lives. Matter of fact, let’s be real. The LBGTQ movement came off the black of the civil rights movement. Furthermore, when did he defend the ‘rapper” because he didn’t? Ignorance is making a statement when you obviously didn’t watch the special. Stop with the outrage.
TopherChris
You realize Mr. Prime that Bayard Rustin was the man who influenced much of Martin Luther King’s peaceful protest tactics and that he himself was a gay man, so you could say gay people are responsible for the civil rights movements for African Americans, or you could say Gandhi is responsible for both movements as he was the one that inspired Bayard Rustin, so technically it all goes back to India and the movement to have civil rights and freedom from British rule.
prime32
TopherChris. You do realize that MLK didn’t start the civil rights movement. W. E. B. Du Bois, Booker T Washington was before Gandhi and created no violent protest prior to Gandhi. Nice try though!
TopherChris
@Prime
You are grasping for straws. Neither W. E. B. Du Bois nor Booker T Washington actually did any REAL protesting, they just wrote about the lives of black people. Neither are a Jon Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., or a Bayard Rustin or a Gandhi. I’ve read both their works and while it is a contribution to black literature, it was in no way shape or form a manner of peaceful protest. Gandhi started it. Just writing is not taking action. How is “The Souls of Black Folk” a peaceful protest? I don’t think a “peaceful protest” is what you think it means. A protest is more than writing. I would say “nice try though”, except it really wasn’t.
TopherChris
Also @Prime DuBois despised Washington for supporting racial segregation, so I doubt you really know what you’re talking about. Your rhetoric is a prime example of how the public educational system is an outright failure. Thankfully, I went to a private school, so I wasn’t taught by failures in the collapsing educational system. I can always differentiate between the private school kids and the public school kids.
TopherChris
And @Prime, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, was a gay German and lawyer that not only wrote about equal rights for gays, but he was a lawyer that actively and publicly spoke of it. He was born in 1825 and his writings precede both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T Washington. So, even by your definition of a “peaceful protest”, you’re still wrong.
GideonMax
What I find disturbingly biased and ridiculous that while talking about all the “anti” gay and trans stuff he said that the writer of this acticle never mention the part where he talked about the TRANS comedian that he actually had open up for him in San Fran. How he helped her fulfil a lifelong dream she had to preform in front of a crowd. How he said he set something up for her daughter for when she turns 21 after she had commited suicide after members of our community turned on her when she defended him for not being transphobic. But you know keep believing what these half ass written articles who have no agenda tell you. Look it up her name was Daphne Dorman
James
WHAT A LOSER. HIS CAREER AT THIS POINT IS NOTHING BUT A HATE FEST FOR IGNORANT MORONS LIKE HIM.
David
Chapelle is a racist and a homophobe with a big mouth, always has been and this is nothing new. If you’d watched his show that was on a few years back you’d know what he’s about. He’s not changed at all still the same jackass he always was.
drmiller
Dave Chappelle is a comedian, he jokes and targets everyone equally. And he IS stating some facts—like cis born women have genitalia that is absolutely different from trans women genitalia. He loses me, or seems to not understand, the nuance of gender vs genitalia. “Woman” ? what’s between your legs. But Dave is an ally, whatever his misunderstandings are, and his humor has ALWAYS been edgy and controversial so I am not ready to throw him under the bus.
lemisanthrope
No, he does not “target everyone equally.” That’s absurd and stupid. He spent 80% of his time bashing the LGBT community exclusively in a much different tone than his “jokes” about other people.
And why do morons think “targeting” is necessary to comedy?
cuteguy
Wow, another “straight” black guy who hates lgbtq ppl. Shocker
prime32
LOL, I think straight white men have discriminated more against gays than any other people. We didn’t draft legislation against gay marriage, not allowing venues to officiate weddings, not make cakes for gay couples, or denying medical coverage to life partners. Matter of fact, it was a straight black male who signed gay marriage into law. And you have straight white men currently in congress trying to undermine it.
Kangol2
Wow, another typical comment from NOT-“cuteguy.”
Prime, you won’t get through to him. He uses any excuse to attack Black people but will not dare tag all White people as homophobes when story after story about powerful White homophobes, who are ACTIVELY trying to strip away his and every other LBGBTQ person’s rights, equality, marriages, etc., appear on this site and in the news.
Dave Chappelle is an individual whose toxic masculine attitudes and warped perspective have hardened since he lost his way in the early 2000s. He’s rich and basically coasting at this point, and the specials are increasingly tiresome, as are his stints on SNL, etc. I mean, just check back out, brother.
unreligious
Prime 32, no straight black male signed gay marriage in to law. It was leagelized by the Supreme Court and the ruling was authored by a straight white male.
Liquid Silver
Apologists attack, together we can tarnish the white folks for something a black person just let drip out of his mouth.
cuteguy
Kangaroo2
Of course I know that white ppl are the biggest homophobes out there, especially from the GQP. But it’s disheartening when it comes from the black community bc they should empathize our plight for being oppressed. Stop trying to make it about you.
Hank31
Beet juice! lool!
LeBlevsez
LGBigot! loool!
LumpyPillows
At least he watched the show first.
LeBlevsez
Lumpy! Where ya been?
Actually, the beet juice comment was reported in the article, so Hank31 wouldn’t have had to have seen the show. Now, if the two of you were canoodling while watching the show together, I’ll stand corrected. Well, I’ll not likely stand, but you get my drift.
My use of “LGBigot” was a redux from an earlier Queerty thread in which Mr31, as per his norm, chopped the TQ off of LGBTQ, cuz you know he, like you, is and anti-trans bigot. I know! I’m chuckling at me too!
As for the “loool”, that was just me making fun of his typo “lool”.
Welcome back and grab your garters, cuz you’re still in my crosshairs.
KyleMichelSullivan
Y’know…every comic thinks they’re just as smart and just as edgy as George Carlin. And they are nowhere near his level. His anti-right wing comedy routines stand up, even today, because he focuses on truth and not opinion. He’s on the side of humanity and not sociological or religious demands, and don’t tell me this guy isn’t. His trans riffs show he’s as middle-class as they come.
Chappelle isn’t being edgy, here; her’s being cheap, lazy and immature. Ten years from now, no one will be paying attention to his routines…but in the meantime, he will be helping facilitate a lot of pain and suffering, and that makes him vile.
Vince
Unfortunetly it’s made him the 2nd richest comedian of all time. That’s what Chapelle stands for. Whatever brings in $.
Fahd
Seems to me like he missed his chance when he walked away from his $50 million deal back around 2005. His last ‘special’ was not special at all and it doesn’t sound like this one is either. Other comedians did these jokes better 30 even 40 years ago and people stopped laughing long ago. There are many other comedians who deserve the chances this guy has gotten.
Also, I don’t think that the LGBT community is punching down on “his people” as he claims in one of his many generalizations, but I do think that the LGBT community should continue to criticize and rebut the homophobia and transphobia he and other “celebrities” are trying to normalize. There’s no point in going backwards.
Netflix should hear from people.
tangent
Chappelle has mastered the art of comedic delivery. For that, I give him kudos. His genius-level ability to do this creates a buffer in between his audience and the obnoxious things he says.
But it’s pretty clear that he’s a massive racist and homophobic asshole with mental health issues.
lemisanthrope
Dave Chappelle has not mastered anything related to comedy.
He was getting booed out of comedy clubs 8 years ago and then there was some sort of public relations campaign (which worked against stupid people) to rebrand him as some sort of truth speaker when almost all his points are illogical and stupid, or just plain bigotry.
IanHunter
Never bounced back from his nervous breakdown and running out on his best friend with whom he created the show.
ryeguypdx
We’ve totally lost the ability to laugh at ourselves. Everything is attack, drag, and misconstrue. I think we make his point for him.
Vince
Maybe people are just tired of comedians using racism to deflect their BS for laughs. He uses lazy and over used stale humor.
LumpyPillows
All these people trashing him that didn’t even watch the show proves a lot.
lemisanthrope
“Trans women aren’t women and their genitals are disgusting.”
Oh, my sides. What great comedy.
Kangol2
As I said above, Dave Chappelle is an individual whose toxic masculine attitudes, homophobia and transphobia, and general elitist perspective have hardened since he lost his way in the early 2000s. The Chappelle show remains a brilliant comic series, but after his breakdown, he hasn’t been the same. He was flirting with praising Don the Con, a white supremacist, don’t forget. Chappelle is now rich and basically coasting at this point, and his transphobic crap isn’t funny.
Donston
One thing we do need to talk about is how a good percentage of rich black men ultimately push Conservative, patriarchal and capitalistic viewpoints. It often feels like many are not truly interested in eradicating systematic racism and prejudice but simply want to be as powerful and respected as how they perceive “rich, ‘straight’ white men.” It sometimes feels as much about ego and megalomania than about anything else for a lot of these dudes. That’s something the “black community” does need to confront. Of course, confronting things here amongst a bunch of trolls and racists isn’t the best place to do so.
cuteguy
Kangaroo2
Stop trying to sound like a politician and speak from both sides of your mouth. You obviously support Chappelle and therefore you support what he says about lgbtq. And if you truly are part of the lgbtq community and not just some GQP troll, then shame on you for hating on gay ppl. You are a self hating gay just like Aaron Schmuck was all those years he was in Congress and voting with the GQP against lgbtq legislation
Kangol2
notcutething, I do not support Dave Chappelle. I thought he was a talented comedian years ago but he’s jumped the shark with his homophobic and transphobic crap. As I said above, you are an unrepentant racist who is constantly trying to smear all Black people. Just cut that crap out. And don’t tell me sh!t about LGBTQ rights. I’ve been out there on the front lines fighting for the rights of LGBTQ people, including LGBTQ racists just like you. You can go cuddle with Aaron Schock and all the other gay racists!
Kangol2
@Donston, well said. I agree.
indulged
How a comic, who found success on a premium comedy network with a primarily white demographic by mocking the stereotypes and social quandaries within and by his minority, appears in public with these statements is the true comedy.
It’s irony, dont’cha know?! (chomps gum, blows bubble-withdraws it, then snaps & chomps again without batting an eye)
Comedians, unless their success & living was found by way of political satire and criticisms, fall flat changing their tune when political statements become the fodder for their dialogue.
It’s hard enough to get social discussions to the political arena of due change—so, getting an audience to laugh about it?
Plus, his resentful & scapegoating tone obfuscated the comedic potential—and possibly sabotaged his comedic talent.
Bastiani
I think what this really highlights is how we are ALL predjudiced against someone or something. If you’re black, you may hate whites. If you’re straight you may hate gays. If you’re asian you may hate blacks. If you’re white you may hate all the latinos coming accross the border, etc. Being predjudiced is a human condition, and is not exclusive to one group or another. We all share this, and it’s the purpose of the good parts of society to help us overcome our prejudices and try and be, well, good. Or as good as we possibly can.
And to me what’s most interesting is that we inherited this from our great ape ancestors. Groups of chimpanzees will fight other groups of chimpanzees for decades until one group wipes out the other. War and violence and zenophobia exist in nature as well as in us. But, we are the only animals who can CHOOSE to be peaceful and kind. We can choose to be better than we were and then act upon that improved being.
Liquid Silver
I think it’s the vodka, personally.
“But, we are the only animals who can CHOOSE to be peaceful and kind. ”
Citation required. One, that our choices aren’t an emergent property of our brain activity vis a vis our humanity and, hence, not really a choice (I happen to be a hopeful determinist; I figure there’s a 90% chance most people won’t change, but I’m hopeful that if jarred, people might). Two, that other species cannot theoretically choose their behavior (if you don’t happen to be a determinist).
Frankly, most humans, by observation, are very much stuck in a groove they won’t ever emerge from, don’t want to emerge from, and can’t ever emerge from. They don’t have the latitude to move very much simply because the average human intellect is, quite bluntly, simply not that great.
75% of my effort expended is to kick people in the butts to see if they’ll think. If you watch, almost nobody ever does; it’s knee-jerk reactions all around. Those just get knee-jerk responses that, again, are a kick in the butt to see if they’ll think. Most are proven incapable. Hence the popularity of a given party line–there’s no need to think, just follow the groove and spit an insult.
Thinking, choosing, and doing all require effort. That’s too hard for most. Hence the popularity of TV.
humble charlie
The voice of reason from both Bastiani (except for the “we are the only animals who can CHOOSE to be peaceful and kind.” – I don’t think that’s true for there are other animals who CHOOSE to be peaceful and kind.) and Liquid Silver.
Michael
Ok so no one is going to point out the obvious here?
And… exactly how, Davie, do you know transsexual women’s p*ssies taste like the real thing?
Cozmo2
I don’t care what he said he is a great comedian
Dijonaise
Chappelle hates himself because he’s gotten rich sucking the white mans d!ck
Vince
I love good comedians and I watch the greats of comedy on Sirius XM all the time. You know who’s never on the it? Yeah you guessed it. Chappelle. He may be great to you but not everything thinks he’s that funny.
TopherChris
He stinks. I was so glad when his comedy central show got cancelled. I find him to be annoying and his “humor”, for lack of a better word, to be juvenile.
TopherChris
He stinks. I was so glad when his comedy central show got cancelled. I find him to be annoying and his “humor”, for lack of a better word, to be juvenile.
lemisanthrope
A great comedian with no jokes or punchlines?
He’s an overrated hack and a disgusting, unfunny bigot.
Dijonaise
Except he didn’t really apologize.
v6origal97
He’s never been known for his intellect. He has a history of mental illness, and like most people with a grudge, he seems perfectly fine insulating himself and punching down, thus passing along hate and continuing the same problems, just dressing them on different clothing. He’s lucky people in show business ever bought into the illusion of his humor, but his time is way past. He’s everything a younger version of himself would disdain, and that inner conflict and self hatred shows.
Donston
I will say, Dababy, Kevin Hart, Chapelle- none of those dudes actually genuinely apologized for anything. After some backlashes, they released half-hearted excuses and looked to other people to defend them. None of those dudes are interested in “learning” anything or becoming more understanding people. I’m not gonna spend a bunch of energy trying to tear them down. But it is annoying how each have tried to reframe the narrative and turn themselves into victims when they each said some rather heinous, hateful shit that was not in the least bit funny or humorous.
Of course, the comment section here is gonna be entirely unproductive, full of high-key racism, trolling and excuse making.
LeBlevsez
Liquid Silver – What a load of circular, self-justifying crap. Hopeful determinist? Everything is preordained, but you can change 10% of the unchangeable. All you have to do is kick butt with your racist shit and the world will be a better place. Except you’re not kicking butt. That’s just your own knee jerking.
Donston
Liquid Silver is hypocritical bytch. It’s that simple. I’ve seen that poster deflect and sometimes flat-out defend hatred and prejudice. But because it’s from a black man they’re suddenly up in arms. Also, this whole “everyone hates somebody” perspective is just another deflection, an excuse for their own resentments.
Heywood Jablowme
Liquid Silver seems to be parodying Dean Martin:
“Everybody hates somebody sometime
Everybody falls in hate somehow
Something in your slap just told me
My sometime is now”
Liquid Silver
I’m mostly just laughing at the dumb here. Seriously, you didn’t even bother to read or were incapable of doing so. I am not doing your homework for you. You are, as noted, one of the 90%.
We will not bother to discuss Donston.
LeBlevsez
I call you out on your circular thinking and the resultant racism. Your vague response is that I’m a poo-poo brain and your going to take your crayons to another table. Well, I guess I lost this one.
Bosch
Could this comment section not devolve into people blaming black people for this and white people for that? Only racists fight in the race war.
Liquid Silver
Of course it can’t, because it’s hysterical and predictable and Queerty. Anything else would reflect intelligence and insight.
PerhapsYesNoMaybe
If he was actually edgy he’d mention most black people are killed by other black people. That reality in the USA and around the world would be edgy to bring up in a joke, but then he’d have to acknowledge he and his offspring are most likely to be killed by other black people. Just like white people are most likely to be killed by other white people.
Vince
Bill Cosby that was the most honest in his comedy about that. Chapelle serves what his audience wants to hear and nothing else.
LumpyPillows
@vince you did not watch the show, it shows.
Cam
He’s rich now. And Rich people identify as rich over anything else. So no surprise that he is pulling out the same right wing talking point that any civil rights wins for one disadvantaged group is an attack on all of the others.
Looks like his Republican financial advisors and rich friends got to him.
Vince
The only other comedian richer then Chapelle is DeGeneres and look was money did to her.
TopherChris
“…every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth. That is a fact.” Actually, that is false. Many people had Caesarean births, including myself. I never passed through a woman’s legs, and yet here I am. How ignorant on his part.
LumpyPillows
You totally missed the point. Sad for you.
o.codone
He’s one of the truly funny people out there.
mastik8
“I don’t hate gay people I respect the shit out of you. Not all of you,” he says. “I’m not that fond of these newer gays — too sensitive, too brittle. I miss the old-school gays…the Stonewall gays. They didn’t take shit from anybody.” Oy gevalt.
LumpyPillows
So, I just actually watched the show and guess what? The show is radically different from how it’s portrayed in this cherry picked article. Perhaps you should refrain from commenting on something you did not even watch.
mastik8
Agreed. Just watched it.
JoeFXX
Not very funny or origional. Time for retirement
LumpyPillows
Alas, I doubt you even bothered to watch the show. Nice try though.
LeBlevsez
Lumpy, instead of just repeating “watch the show” ad nauseam, maybe you could cite Dave Chapelle’s clarification that demonstrates he’s not anti-trans. Something that counters his statement that he’s “team TERF.”
And……Go!
LumpyPillows
LeBlevsez didn’t watch the show either. Sad. Anyone who watched the show would know. And, no, I do not have to give you the Cliff’s Notes I’m not the one making the accusations.
LeBlevsez
“Watch the show” – ad nauseam – plus 2.
LumpyPillows
You’re such a loser, its sad. Pulling criticism out of your butt about something you know nothing about is tragic for you. Ill repeat, because you’re dense, go watch the show to see if you’re right. Ill give you an out since you’re lazy, you’re wrong.
Me2
Wow! It’s painfully obvious that most of the commentors on this post did not watch the special. It’s scary that in a society with as many easily accessible resources as ours, people don’t verify information for themselves and consistently allow a few buzzwords to trigger a rush to judgment and control their emotions to the dangerous verge of vile hatred.
LeBlevsez
“Watch the special” – an entirely new idea. Thank you, Me2, for your BumpyCushions of wisdom.
LumpyPillows
Love how LeB proved you’re point. They don’t get dumber. All the other commenters, when challenged about not watching the show, were smart enough to shut up. No LeB, it doesn’t need facts.
Creamsicle
Is this a satire post?
Chapelle specifically dissected the term “punch down” in this special and talked at length at the number of people who object to his comedy because of what they hear and read about it, while never actually watching or listening to his stand-up.
This is some beautiful irony.
lemisanthrope
He didn’t “dissect punching down.” He went into a logic-free babble that didn’t make any sense whatsoever to a person who can think critically.