Dave Chappelle is out of new material.
Newly posted audio from the Netflix is a Joke Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in late April finds Chappelle clinging to the same tired, queerphobic comedy that has kept him recently relevant.
Chappelle blasted Lil Nas X as a “promiscuous f*g,” called Lia Thomas a man, and compared transness to him “identifying as Chinese” before putting on a heavy stereotypical East Asian accent.
The section of his stand-up focused on Lil Nas X was based around the statement, “I don’t like Lil Nas X. It’s not because he’s gay; it’s because he’s slutty.”
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Even after speaking on Lil Nas X as one of the “promiscuous f*gs in Hollywood,” he somehow expected the crowd to believe him later on he said he respects Lil Nas X because he’s “busy being himself.”
In another part of the show, Chappelle returned to his trademark transphobia, this time targeting Lia Thomas specifically (or, as he referred to her, “this trans swimming b*tch”).
Watch. Or maybe don’t.
Chappelle continued the tired rhetoric that Thomas is completely dominating the sport since transitioning (for reference, Thomas has won one single race in competition since transitioning).
A large portion of the country, including a number of legislators, wish that trans people did not exist and plan to do their best to make it so, and Chappelle is out here laughing with those folks in front of thousands and thousands of people.
He asserts each time that he launches a new attack against the trans community that he “has nothing against them,” but is clearly content with contributing to the culture that would see them eradicated.
In 2006, Chappelle left his eponymous sketch show, walking away from a $50 million offer because he felt that people were “laughing at the wrong thing” in the show’s racialized humor. There was a point in Chappelle’s life where he would rather walk away from millions of dollars than lend his voice to something that degraded a disadvantaged culture.
Clearly, that time is long past.
iminheatlikeacat
That was funny! Thanks for posting!
Bengali
Yeah. How sad for you that you’re not even gay and are here as a troll. Very pathetic life you lead. Hey – answer your phone. I think Trump is calling you.
barryaksarben
What’s funny it’s a straight troll on this website. You’re the first in Soul I’ve ever met. Obviously no one in the world wants to even take a look at your dick. Ugly inside and out but hey you be you. LOL. Chappell’s / has been for a while ever since he lost his mind. Like the article says he used to stand up when people laughed at the wrong thing now he’s creating jokes to have them laugh at the wrong things tired old over. Does he have some personal knowledge that little known as X is slutty? It is part of little Nas X performance just like it is for JLo or Madonna or Shakira. It isn’t necessarily who they are in real life.
iminheatlikeacat
Eh, what? I’ve been on this site for years. Gold star gay here.
Gosh, such angry and bitter reactions from the pair of you! I expected nothing less from the types that tend to lurk here, but still!
Stay positive guys! Bitterness ages you, remember that.
mailliw110
“I’ve been on this site for years. Gold star gay here.” Sorry no, that not gold and not a star. A pink triangle is more like it. So, people who have been on lurking is not that same as being on here for years?
shaunpaul1234
Uve bn Bengalied!! Bengali accuses someone of not bng gay, everytime they say something he dosent like, something tht dosent tow the “gay-line”!! He thinks everyone of us who sucks dick, are suppose to have his opinion on EVERYTHING!! He cn NEVER, come back wth facts at those he disagrees wth, so he ALWAYS, goes th “ur not gay” route!! Complete cop-out!! For example, he has NO IDEA, wether or not, “iminheatlikeacat”, is gay or not!! But, thts all in his pathetic mind, quite poss, pathetic life, where they dnt allow anyone to have an opinion, other than theirs!! But, thts wht “wokeness”, is all about!! PATHETICNESS!!
right1
It is super funny; lighten up,, it’s called comedy!
Cam
@iminheatlikeacat
You forgot to mention that while you’ve been on the site for years, you’ve used 25 different troll screenames.
Sqwoah
There’s a kernal of truth in everything he says. I think that’s why people get so mad
Bengali
Sure Trumpist. You already showed your ignorance and lack of education because you can’t spell a simple six letter word like kernel. Bravo DUMMY.
dbmcvey
No. They get mad because his audience is right in the demographic of people who commit violence against trans women of color.
mailliw110
So…it’s not the f*ggot remark?
shaunpaul1234
Perfectly put!!
rockyroo
where are idiots like you when I have ocean front property in Montana for sale. Someone as smart as you would realize it is rare and you better buy it. oops you just missed out trump just got it.
right1
He’s so funny! Chapelle is an equal oppt offender so get over it…. He’d make fun of himself and any star so laugh at yourself occasionally. Geez!
Jim
Hate isn’t humorous
Bengali
thank you for saying that. Especially in the current political climate where Texas is literally painting targets on the backs of the LGBTQ+ community. How long before some far righter either religious or proud boy decides to take the law into their own hands?
Winsocki
I find jokes about Trump that are hatefull very funny.
mailliw110
Only if your a transphobic, gay basher republican.
Neoprene
It’s not hate speech. Mean spirited at times? Sure, I’ll concede that. And I’ll also concede these current audio clips and The Closer are the weakest material of Chappelle’s career. I personally wish he’d move on to something else but obviously the “gay” community has pissed him off to the point of making him repetitive and boring.
shaunpaul1234
I havnt heard any hate, just humor!! I cnt deal wth people who r thin-skinned!! Expect everyone else to think th way they do!! Tht r so paranoid!! They think everyone is out to attack thm!! Expect everyone else to adhere to their brand of humor!! Im 65, gay, and went thru all kinds of physical violence, harassment frm th cops, because i sucked dick!! Yet i didnt grow up paronoid and scared like so many have demonstrated in their comments they r!! Ill say it again, u enjoy playing wth balls, how about growing some!! Unfortunately th whole woke bs is based on one bng paranoid and fearful 24/7, and everyone putting up wth and dancing around tht!! Bullshit, grow up, face ur fears, ur triggers or gt a shrink!!
right1
He isn’t hating he’s making us laugh. There wasn’t any cursing or vile speak; in comedy some comedians make fun of the obvious and even themselves. It doesn’t mean he hates or is self loathing.
LumpyPillows
He’s been funnier, but it was classic Chappelle.
As far as the lynching piece – this is a complete lie: “Thomas has won one single race in competition since transitioning.” Lie. She’s won national title and lots of races.
jsmu
It is imbecilic, punching-down ugliness masquerading as ‘comedy.’
You are an epic troll who apparently adores house niCLANGs who pander to their white masters.
iminheatlikeacat
@jsmu talks about punching down and then makes racist remarks. The irony!
LumpyPillows
jsmu, you’re comment makes no sense. The lie is a lie. What exactly does your comment have to do with what I wrote? You’re just nasty.
Winsocki
We live in a Capitalist free enterprise zone, these jokes pay his bills and people are laughing to pay them. So comedians make some nasty Trump Jokes or Fundamentalist Christian jokes and call it even steven. I mean don’t watch, don’t listen, ( pray tell ). Look at all the ‘nasty stuff’ Lenny Bruce said. $$$ vote with your dollah don’t hollah.
mailliw110
So you bring up someone who is dead and has been for quite a few years? Might as well lump George Carlin in there as well. Any opinion on any other dead person? Richard Pryor?
Sotzume
The problem with Dave Chappelle is not that he jokes about gay men or trans women(does he joke about lesbians and transmen too?) but that he just isn’t funny any longer. That whole routine wasn’t the least bit funny. Its not the least bit clever or ironic or satirical or anything intelligent. Its not even a crazy rant…its just boring. And he’s beating a dead horse to boot…yes, we know you’ve been accused of hating gays and trans women…yawn.
rand503
You got that right. I’ve watched some of his recent stuff, and there is nothing funny at all. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and I came away wanting. I even watched some of his earlier shows, and again, although a few sketches were hysterical, a lot of it is just talk talk talk.
In the meantime, I’ve been binging on Kids in the Hall. Now THAT is comedy!
Brian
You’re exactly right. The problem isn’t that he’s joking about gay people. The problem is that there’s no joke there. He didn’t sit down and take the time to draft a setup with a twist and a punchline. There’s no substance. He’s just calling gay men the f word and then expecting an audience to laugh.
I watch & listen to a lot of standup. I also follow a few comedians on their socials and podcasts, and I especially enjoy hearing the backstory behind their shows. Some comedians will admit that a certain joke didn’t land well in one city, and then they describe how they adjusted the joke to work better at the next show. Comedians — the good ones, anyway — put thought and practice into their work. Chappelle is dumb, petulant, and lazy.
LumpyPillows
I agree, it wasn’t that funny. His special was more thoughtful and funny. This was just airing grievances.
The real Bruce
Dave Chappelle as well as Chris Rock, are no longer the comedy talents they once were. Even given to laughing at their “jokes” before the audience has a chance to. That’s pretty sad. Tired old crap about the gay community, cheap shots just to get a laugh from ignorant audiences. Both need to wise up and focus on humor where it truly is. That might take some work. Are you guys up to it?
justwannaleaveonecomment
I wonder what he thinks of all the far more slutty female rappers. I get they’re just playing a part and I enjoy their music, I don’t care how slutty their act is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Chappelle was a lot more comfortable with a slutty female act.
jsmu
Talentless house niCLANG who was never funny and is now an old, ugly, poisonous troll.
BEARY FLINTSTONE
Thanks for your racism!
Kangol2
Always someone on here to show their racist colors! Go bite yourself, creep!
Mr. Stadnick
Thanks for your KKK take on things you racist. You mother should be ashamed you are what she raised!
Pharmguy55
Chappelle is neither funny or intelligent. He is hateful man who THINKS it’s funny to ridicule people trying to be their authentic selves. I doubt that Lil Nas X or Lia Thomas give a damn about what Dave Chappelle has to say even if HE calls it comedy. Most people I know just think he’s ignorant.
LumpyPillows
Did you bother to listen? He really did not go after Lil Nas X. No, of course you did not listen.
Peter
I’ve watched several of his taped shows from recent years, and I never thought he was funny. Still don’t. He just seems kind of pathetic at this point.
rand503
Agreed. I think the fame and money has gone to his head. He is likely surrounded by yes men who pretend to worship him, and he fell into thinking that is all real. It isn’t.
SDR94103
a fading career.
LumpyPillows
Really?
Fahd
Chapelle and his “jokes” remind me of the once-thought-funny homophobic humor of Eddie Murphy’s stand up career. Listening to Murphy’s routine with today’s sensibility makes any decent person cringe….Chapelle should be ashamed of himself, next he’ll be meeting with Tr*mp and Kanye West, the mental health three, they’ll call themselves.
gregg2010
And Murphy is at least bisexual and should know better.
Kevin Peter Tobiason
The… intrinsically-disordered… Trinity
dbmcvey
What happened to him not doing LGBTQ+ material (you can’t really call them jokes)?
I’m sure it’s just because he really wants the attention.
LumpyPillows
So, you didn’t bother to listen either, but felt compelled to comment on something he answers.
BEARY FLINTSTONE
I guess Queerty forgot about the years they spewed racism when Obama was running for President.
mailliw110
That’s it? Any proof or just slander?
Brian
That didn’t happen.
TimidTim
East Asian accent? Calling him racist when you’re pointing out that he has the dialect for a particular region of Asia just seems kind of like going in a reverse direction to get your point across. It’s the perfect example of how PC culture works against you like the way Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Canadian “etc” are all clumped together for the month of May. Making it basically sound like May is miscellaneous month and having random ethnicities pretty much fight over who gets May. Totally misguided when trying to proves one’s point.
mailliw110
I didn’t know May was Asian month! You learn a lot here on Queerty!!!
Kevin Peter Tobiason
Would you prefer a separate holiday for each of those indigenous cultures… that could just take a while given how hateful White Heterosexual Christians have been to indigenous peoples. Manifest Destiny? How about the cultural combining of LGBT peoples… do you think that is… “misguided”… too? I think that the problem with Mr. Chappelle’s… “Asian”… accent… is that it may be a bit too reminiscent of Micky Rooney’s… in the pop culture movie… Breakfast at Tiffany’s… in 1961. Yes… it would be great if we had a perfect world… and that social progress was less clumsy… and more excellent… but… we can only do our best… all of us… to protect the vulnerable among us.
Kangol2
I’m sorry, but no Black man in 2022 should be on stage ridiculing Asian Americans with a stereotypical, racist East Asian accent, even if, as is the case with Chappelle, his wife is Asian American. That crap, like the comments about Lil Nas X’s sexual behavior, and the misgendering of Lia Thomas, are indefensible. He’s turned into a rich troll who loves to punch down, and it’s anything but humorous.
shaunpaul1234
Hey Kangol2:
Misgendering of lia? Uh, no misgendering here by anyone!! Yes shes traswoman, who happens to b a self-centered, selfish human being, who happens to b transgender!! But, the fact tht she identifies as transgender, has NOTHING, to do wth th fact, tht she also identifies, as a self-centered, selfish human being!! Whom is moraly cheating!!
Terrycloth
It was more of a statement ..no joke there .haha got laughs I’m thinking. What’s funny about that ? Where was the funny.part..I played it again..did I miss it ? I find him.very hard to understand he mumbles ….the real comedians are long dead. Carlin , Williams, Pryor , …
right1
I’m more scared the anger in these replies. Don’t watch or listen to him then; he is funny, has a huge following and isnt’ trolling my my opinion. He is not fading and makes a lot of people laugh and is doing just fine. Many kinds of comedy and the irreverent and politically incorrect is funny for many people which doesn’t make it a mantra or full of hate, Like someone said he’s married to an Asian… get over this 101% political correctness.
mastik8
At this point the gay community should be paid a percentage for the amount of work we have done on his behalf. Our outrage has fueled his success.
Neoprene
Yea, where’s my check? Oh wait. I’ve never been outraged by him. Bored, but not outraged.
ShiningSex
Gay jokes can be funny, but when said in a hateful way, it’s NOT.
There is a difference.
woodroad34
Precisely. He shouts ‘jokes’ like a teenager doing a drive by insult. Not particularly insightful or intelligent. Does he say the same thing about Beyoncé, Lizzo, GaGa or any female singer…he has mean issues that overwhelm whatever comedy he’s trying to make
woodroad34
I’ve never found him funny back in the early aughts when everyone thought he was the second coming of comedy—he’s not ironic, pithy or particularly insightful like Robin Williams, Billy Crystal or Whoopi. His verbiage is just something you’d hear a bully shout at you without nuance.
johncp56
Ditto he is straenthing the blk homophobic culture shame I,m gay I like jokes even at me but these times we are going ass backwards,
fredk3
for someone who is supposed to be a stand up comic, he’s just not funny. complaining & insulting isn’t witty & requires no talent.
right1
Don’t watch or get twisted by him then,,, a lot folks, including everyone he pokes finds him funny. That doesn’t equal hate. Laugh at yourself; it’s healthy.
humble charlie
it’s a big world. one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. if you don’t like what chappelle has to say, don’t listen to him. get over it. i think he’s funny most of the time, though now he does tend to pontificate occasionally having inhaled his own breath too often. you don’t think he’s funny because he addresses subjects that are too sensitive for you to find funny – “comedy is when another man slips on a banana peel, and tragedy is when you slip on one and hurt your back”. but you have a right to your opinion and to express it.
mailliw110
Yeah, that was tried with Hitler. I don’t recall that decision working out very well.
LumpyPillows
LOL, comparing Chapelle to Hitler. You should do stand up.
GreekKeys
He’s playing you. Many, many more people understand the biological impossibility of transiness and that this movement is built on lies. Every outraged snit fit the gay press throws, every minute dissection of his every utterance proves him right. Trans is fake, it’s false and it’s taking 40 years of gay equality down with them. “Democrats seem to be going out of their way to lose elections by elevating activist causes, notably the transgender debate, which are relevant only to a small minority. What sense does it make to depict JK Rowling as a fascist?” -Hillary Clinton
tallskin4
i’ll add to that by saying not only is it fake but it’s clearly a Men’s Rights movement.- 1) split between girls with obvious mental health issues who’ve leapt upon ‘transition’ as a means of easing their deep unhappiness at their burgeoning womanhood, and 2) with the trans woman split between camp gay boys seeking straight men for sex and the straight autogyniphiles- the majority of trans women – who are the ones causing all the violence and demanding lesbians sleep with them and taking over women’s sports etc etc
Guys, you already control and own the world why are you insisting on taking over women’s spaces and using gays and lesbians as a wedge to blast away any resistance? Its a sexual kink, nothing wrong with that ! But it’s not progressive, it’s deeply reactionary.
But perhaps worse are the useful idiot gays and lesbians who are allowing these straight blokes to do this with no resistance and are calling this Autogynhile kink a leftwing/ progressive cause.
Tom M
Chappelle is funny, it’s comedy, get over it !
And if you allow your body to mature thru puberty in a male form, and then ask to compete in athletics, which is all about physicality, it makes no sense to expect to compete as a female.
This should be obvious to everyone.
LegionKeign
So chapelle gets a pass on using the word “fags”? Really?
LumpyPillows
When did you get to determine the rules of free speech?
Stephenross01
I have Netflix at home but recently we have been reviewing whether or not to keep it simply because of the content in general which we have found to be deteriorating. They have been dropping decent shows in favour of crass programs such as this so called comedian, Chappelle who they allow to insult many other minority groups when they should be receiving support. Netflix would not let me insult the black community so why allow this? Its only convinced me that Netflix is failing badly and the only way to keep their ratings up is by attracting bigots by showing bigots. Made my mind up now and Netflix will be dropped. I have no wish to watch crass TV.
LumpyPillows
LOL, there is more LGBTQ content on Netflix than any other place. Dag Queen Coco Peru is in the new show Deadend Paranormal Park on Netflix featuring a trans main character. I find it funny that she was dragging Netflix for Chappelle and now ifs promoting the show because she voices a character in it. Reminds me of you. Cancel. You’ll be back.
twomen4u
Sorry but as a 76 year old gay male and being told I am too black and white unless gender re-assignment surgery is done you are still your birth sex. I know this is going to create a firestorm, but I am entitled to my opinion. That being said, I do not support abortion as that is murder at any stage.
ldweisberg
I’m so over Chappelle – buh-bye…
LumpyPillows
Eh, you never watched Chappelle’s shows. He doesn’t care.
Ronbo
Don’t ever, ever go to see Eddie Izzard – his trans material is much more pointed and biting. Oh, BTW Eddie is white and Dave is black.
Why are the snowflakes here only attacking the black guy?
LumpyPillows
The mob is fickle.
LeBlevsez
Eddie Izzard is also trans and prefers ‘she/her’ pronouns. Let’s tell the whole truth.
Ronbo
Is this a dog-whistle for racism, Charley Grey? I’ve heard jokes about trans persons from hundreds of comics – but you keep punching down on only this black comic. You white guys/girls need to take a breather – I don’t think you understand how the ball gets rolling for lynchings.
o.codone
He’s not cancellable. Just learn to live with Chapelle.
Joshua333
So the “joke” was that he doesn’t like people that are sexually active and that he used the f-slur. In the words of Trinity the Tuck: “Where are the jokes?”
supergrass
Even disregarding the offensive material, he’s just boring now. He didn’t make me laugh at all with his new material, it’s all stuff I’ve heard on 4chan when I was 18. Disappointing how boring and routine he’s become in order to chase easy dollars with lowbrow lowest-common-denominator jokes and humor. Can’t blame him for earning easy millions with recycled and obsessive material, it’s doing his bank account wonders. Just not for me.