I'm sure the proud boys or kkk would love some of the racist jokes I've heard at work.

I wonder how Chapel would appreciate them.

I think that's the joke. Honestly I feel like this whole thread is a huge woosh... Did everyone miss the joke?

as long as you follow the rules fozzi bear did in family guy, this probably how it went in saudia arabia, like fozzi bear skit.

Typical whataboutist deflection. He tries to hide the fact that he is a snivelling piece of shit.

He's a Muslim, I think it was safe to assume he's not a fan of Israel BEFORE the current iteration of the genocide against Palestinians tbh.

Though I don't even remember his trans jokes being intentionally malicious or anything. More like... Just poor taste and then he doubled down on it.

The correct and moral decision isn't 'I work for all murderous regimes', it is 'I work for no murderous regime'.

Simple as that and he failed. And before somebody comes with 'but what about USA/China/UK' I said all. And there is also a big difference between working in a country and being invited by the rulers of the country.

Not having heard the jokes under "discussion" here, I cannot comment on those specifically. But overall Chappelle's message rings loud and clear (to me) that LGBTQIA+ people, at the end of the day, are still "passing", whereas a black man in that part of the USA can never present as anything other than black, and that makes a HUGE difference.

I'll let him tell it in his own words though: https://youtube.com/shorts/hac3bwgo90g

I think his receiving the Mark Twain prize went to his head.

The whole Comedy Central thing never sat well with me. Here’s my poor ass listening to this rich mother fucker who made it big, complain about how other rich fuckers “took his money”. It was never relatable, and it just felt like rich people feuding to me. That’s when I started to see Dave as a wealthy man first and above all. My instinct proved true when he just got worse and worse and became less and less human.

He can visits the hood and pretend he’s still from the streets all he wants, even though he never was. But I ain’t buying it. He likely gets back in his truck and uses the sanitizer and complains about the little people like diddy. He’s a fake and has no idea how real people live and think. He only hangs out with billionaires.

You would be surprised at how many latinos voted for trump.

because he saw a white dude laughing a little too hard at his jokes about race.

Also a little weird since his show was touted as being funny to everybody.

He got too rich, had a crisis of conscience, then took some time in Africa to end up deciding that money > conscience.

In short, no one's "paying him" to be a bigot, he's just the typical rich piece of shit. He defends other rich pieces of shit because that's what rich pieces of shit do.

Dude had enough money and it probably stretched even further in Africa.

He's been out of the spotlight for a while and is out of touch. Super disappointing comeback.

I'm not sure the time line supports that. Dave was making tasteless and bigoted jokes about trans folk well before Elon/Netflix special. Who knows, maybe money was secretly changing hands. But even if so, Dave was the one to sell himself out. All the blame still falls directly to him.

Freeer over the by the way, where they, checks notes, literally took his script and said what he could and couldn't say.

Fuck that bigoted hypocrite

That's my takeaway too. I did listen to his stand up and while i didn't think it was horrible, i had to remind myself that it's the guy from the chappelle show, otherwise i wouldn't have listened to it. Also really interesting how Neal Brennan is still really funny and i like his stand up a lot. Maybe it is just a Seinfeld situation

He was well before this. When he was in his local town hall complaining that they were making affordable housing near him and letting "the poors" get too close.

He was rich when he was popular too.

When Richard Pryor came back from Africa he said there were so many different types of people there and vowed never to use the n-word ever again.

When Dave Chappele came back from africa he said there were a lot of broke n***ers over there and vowed never to turn down a dollar ever again.

Chamber... Chamber... Chamber

No, it’s everyone else who’s in the echo chamber.

Sorry but that's a lefty only thing ok?

/s

Have you watched any of his standup? It's obviously going to be subjective, but to say nothing he has said in 15 years has been funny is absolutely ridiculous.

Dave Chappelle is very funny.

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I didn’t find that funny at all, just Dave using real tragedy to gain attention and money once again

What... That's not funny. He's using an ongoing tragedy to deflect from his blatant hypocrisy.

I don't think Chapelle deserves the level of hate he's received, but he was certainly punching down in his bid to play oppression Olympics. His whole point was one of being jealous that black people have a much longer road to acceptance that trans people. The problem is, because of his discomfort with the topic, his jokes fell flat, which leaves only the punching down. If you're going to cross the line, you better be funny, or people will only see malice.

They don't care. They just read from some place that Chappelle is evil now so he must be shunned.

We got rid of fundamental religion with somebody telling exactly how to think about everything, but I guess some people just cannot live without one.

He is irrelevant, from my perspective.

a way to say that he got to talk about whatever he wants

I can't tell if your serious but he absolutely did not get to talk about what ever he wanted. Their jokes were limited and had to be vetted beforehand.

He actually got to talk about whatever he wanted in America. He just didn't like people telling him his jokes were bad and he was being bigoted

I gotta respect Hitler for giving no fucks & for “punching” any damn direction he wants.

Punching down is lazy. He's just another lazy black man.

See what I did there? See how it wasn't funny?