Bad Chappelle Bits

what are these Comedy Channels in the car? is this a Sirius thing?

Yes. I don’t know which is worse, tbh, the Comedy Channel or the Politics Channel, or whatever it’s called, which seems to be the other alternative, at least when I play Russian Roulette with the ignition key.

As if there weren’t enough reasons to ban cars

OTMFM. Whip it on me, wins!

An editorial that ran in Variety in July 1945. pic.twitter.com/zA66lRhElO

— Kliph Nesteroff (@ClassicShowbiz) October 18, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/the-power-of-dave-chappelles-comedy-netflix-the-closer

In 2005, Chappelle walked away from a reported fifty-million-dollar contract with Comedy Central for two additional seasons of “Chappelle’s Show,” his sketch-comedy series. Years later, he explained that he’d been conflicted about the effect of his brand of racial humor, which relied heavily on enacting stereotypes in order to ridicule them. He had begun to wonder whether his audience got the second, more subtle layer of his work, or whether it was entertained purely by the stereotypes. Chappelle, as he told David Letterman, was attuned to nuances in his work that it would have been more convenient (and more lucrative) to ignore. There was always the risk, in riffing on the racial absurdities of American culture, of reinforcing rather than undermining them. The absence of concern of this kind about “The Closer” is striking, and suggests that Chappelle’s line about being rich and famous is more significant to the controversy than has been noted. Onstage, he refers to himself as the man who walked away from fifty million dollars, but the credibility he derived from that act sixteen years ago is now being deployed defensively and cynically, as if to place above suspicion any possible motive for telling denigrating jokes about trans people. He is also the man who walked into a reported sixty-million-dollar Netflix deal.

In 2005, it meant something for a Black man to reject an enormous pile of money in the name of integrity. The past two weeks reiterated a contrasting point: that Black men, too, can be invested in the prerogatives that wealth purchases. Earlier this year, Netflix removed old episodes of “Chappelle’s Show” from the platform at the comedian’s request, forgoing the revenue it would have reaped, after he called the contract that allowed Comedy Central to profit from the show more than a decade and a half after its release exploitative. Sarandos has dismissed requests from trans employees that “The Closer” be removed.

Days after “The Closer” aired, Chappelle performed at a sold-out event at the Hollywood Bowl, before an audience that included Nas, Lizzo, Stevie Wonder, Brad Pitt, and Tiffany Haddish. He remains powerful and influential, despite the protests from a comparatively small community of activists and their supporters. The turbulence around “The Closer” will, in all likelihood, amount to just another speed bump in Chappelle’s path. In gliding through this situation, he has emphasized a fact about power that was never particularly noteworthy. Because the one thing that has not been cancelled is the check.

^ jelani cobb almost always worth a read imo

His concerts are rallies now, apparently. This is on the level of Lenny Bruce reading his trial transcripts from the stage.

http://www.instagram.com/p/CVde5tAFT4H/

wow

much canceled

so persecute

this motherfucker can afford bodyguards to tackle someone who even steps on his shoes, meanwhile he whines like this when his comments actually lead to getting transgendered people outright murdered.

"his comments actually lead to getting transgendered people outright murdered"

Citation?

Lmao “AM I CANCELLED??” the man is beyond parody

Funny to think there’s an entire generation of teens who only know ~this~ version of Chappelle, it’s kinda like the way I grew up hearing a ton about Michael Jackson but not really getting why he was so goddamn famous

*lead*, not *led*.

They're the type of comments that over time lead to incitement of violence

He got a really positive review in The Economist this week

He's getting cheered on by the people that said "Derek Chauvin did nothing wrong". Would think he'd want to look at *who* is agreeing with him and take stock

Gadsby crack really pushed this one over the top

He got a really positive review in The Economist this week

like most other uk-based media outlets, supporting transphobia has been the ideological line of the economist for ages

but wow they really called him "gender realist" lmao

Yeah and he's "torching the pieties of the identitarian left."

I'm a subscriber, but the opinion pieces in The Economist are so relentlessly cringey that it's demoralizing. It's a magazine that I am literally afraid to open every week.

i'm a gender surrealist

what a crybaby-ass bully

I do like to imagine, like, Hadley Freeman and Julie Bindel forcing themselves through a season of Chapelle's Show because Chapelle is an ally now.

the way he complains non stop about being bullied while insisting over and over that people can't criticize him until they watch 6 hours of Netflix specials actually reminds me a lot of the Dilbert guy

ha yes otm. or Peterson.

next Chappelle special "I've Got a Lot of Tweets to Respond To"

The best kind of humor is that which is focused on explaining at length to the unappreciative portion of the audience why they're wrong. It's a surefire recipe for laughs.

it’s not surprising that even smart, formerly (insert sarcasm font) incendiary truth tellers can have retrograde opinions on this stuff, but this is the hill you demand to die on? with all the things going on in this fucked up country where you could “trigger” folks w actual power…

and you’re not even ‘dying’ on any hill; you’re being celebrated by bloodless ghouls in the Economist and a bunch of hooting psychopaths who literally think slavery or miscegenation laws should be “left to the states”

I think thats at least one core central disappointment among many here, this is the least interesting, least valuable thing he could be spending this vaunted genius and bravery on

For a cadre so quick to lean back on the importance of their profession they sure as a group fail en masse to wield the power and platform and ability in a way that demonstrates much respect for the inherent possibilities- it rings so hollow

whiney with the rebuttal in 3....2....1

A Va. councilman deletes of a post of himself dressed as Randy Watson from “Coming to America”

“Like Dave Chappelle, I don’t go around walking on eggshells, worried about hurting someone’s feelings. But I never intended for this to be a racist issue.”https://t.co/RTRKTryiPl pic.twitter.com/D0P2t3hV31

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) October 29, 2021

Welp you earned this Dave

oooooooooof

hey he’s an edgy councilman, if you get offended that’s on you

But he’s the greatest councilman of all time

that’s a man who loves to painstakingly repeat the infamous Chris Rock bit for extended family and coworkers

A virginia politician in blackface, will wonders ever cease?

the only part of the chapelle specials that will stick with me is the bit about how kevin hart dreamed about hosting the oscars his whole life and they TOOK IT from him. its like something your fattest aunt would say while shes already crying

— 🎃🐒 (@Lowenaffchen) October 31, 2021

Sounds racist. ^^

i don't care if your fat aunt is white, black, purple

netflix continues to market the hell out of this

Sell the controversy...

Can anybody point me to a heartfelt pro-trans show by a huge celebrity on this trash service? Given that’s their defense (that they air a multitude of perspectives etc etc)?

Doesn't Orange is the New Black have a major trans character played by Laverne Cox? I mean, fuck Netflix over all this, but she made a big impression, and her character was treated pretty sympathetically, iirc.

Yeah, Netflix basically gave Cox her career, but she's the only example I can think of.

laverne cox is not as famous as Dave Chappelle and wasn’t that like 10 years ago

https://www.disclosurethemovie.com/about

The last episode of OITNB aired in 2019, not that it matters.

There's other stuff with trans characters but not on Laverne's level.

Is there any trans character in film/tv/stand-up as famous in America as Dave Chappelle is? That's a tough standard to meet.

Ok fair enough! That looks good PK

xxpost It is!

Is there any trans character in film/tv/stand-up as famous in America as Dave Chappelle is? That's a tough standard to meet.

she is also, contrary to what Chappelle says, a horrible person

Searching Eddie Izzard on Netflix gets you recommendations for Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais!