Bad Chappelle Bits

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!

I was trying to avoid Caitlin in my equation because I thought we were talking about fictional characters and/or stand-up comedians? Of course, KUWTK is as fictional as it gets and airs on Hulu rather than Netflix so it's not much of a difference.

I don't think Eddie is anywhere close to Dave's level in the US, although she does have some pretty good film/tv credits (usually male presenting).

Can anyone recommend any good writing on the current Chappelle kerfuffle? I'm looking for something to assign for my students to read next term.

i thought the j cobb piece i linked upthread was good
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/the-power-of-dave-chappelles-comedy-netflix-the-closer

Parker Molloy: https://www.readthepresentage.com/p/dave-chappelle-transgender

New from me: In his latest comedy special, Dave Chappelle said his trans friend was hounded into suicide by other trans people.
I couldn't find any evidence that it happened.
https://t.co/QhKbPsss6E

— Michael Hobbes (@RottenInDenmark) November 17, 2021

guy seems pretty easily triggered

Dave Chappelle made a surprise stop to his former high school this week – and had a heated Q&A session with nearly 600 students about his Netflix special https://t.co/XYnhpCxYTp pic.twitter.com/8f3NTglVpY

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) November 25, 2021

One of his worst bits yet

Dave Chappelle personally came to a city council meeting and threatened to remove his $65m dollars of investments from his city if they allowed a developer to move forward with an affordable housing program. The objection wasn't to the build, but the affordable housing component. https://t.co/3ahCy1KqmN pic.twitter.com/l8MTxhhlJ7

— grimm (@ExileGrimm) February 9, 2022

He should be sliced to bits.

"hmm, don't think I've given people a large enough variety of reasons to hate me yet".

dudes about to get paid $10,000,000 for a standup special that's 2 jokes and a 50 minute rant about how poverty is a choice

and his fan base will grow to include more people that he might be alarmed are part of his fanbase if he actually gave a fuck about that anymore

2004: "fuck $50 million, my show may be inadvertently harming my own community, and that's more important to me"

2022: "Not in MY backyard!!!!"

It's just baffling.

Dave got old.

Rich dudes + weed usually = angry, parano rich a-holeness. Unless they're excellent musicians or something like that.

In the replies:

This is completely inaccurate. The objection is they are building it directly in his backyard, taking pictures of his home & using it as a selling point.
The PUD presented by Oberer planned for houses starting at $300k and up. Not affordable

torn between having absolutely no good faith left to give Chapelle and being skeptical of twitter news

(ok doing some digging those comments are bs, fuck Chapelle)

It’s amazing how low a person can fall.

It's always been weird & gross how much he clearly enjoys being the king of whatever that dumbass small town is that he lives in

"Traffic issues, a lack of parking ..." These are the kinds of BS objections people around here have raised every time a lower or mixed income or mixed use building has gone up over the past few years, and despite these fears never coming to fruition, afaict, they keep getting raised again and again.

On the other hand, calling $300k (reported starting price) homes "affordable housing" is a pretty big stretch. Maybe more affordable for *that* affluent exurb ... Anyway, Chappelle has burned through any benefit of the doubt - that's what being a professional asshole will get you - but I've yet to see a news story on this that delved deeper than clickbait cut-n-paste "Chappelle doesn't like poor people" headlines. From what I understand his main objection was not the idea of "affordable" housing but housing designed to attract more people like *him*, people with money that want to move or retire to a quaint blue town (pop. 4000) about 30 minutes outside of friggin' *Dayton* in the middle of red Ohio. And afaict, the development (single family homes) is still going forward, just in line with what had previously been agreed to rather than a more ambitious cash grab of duplexes and townhouses couched as "affordable housing." Like, I don't think we're talking Section 8 here.

Am I mishearing him in that lil speech or is he basically saying "I'm worth more than the developer company so you better side with me"?

thats what i got, too.

i dunno, ime people on chappelle's level dont make a massive distinction btw "section 8" and $300k home people

Dave's concern trolling of "guys this isn't really AFFORDABLE HOUSING" isn't cute

The rest of the development is going ahead, just not the affordable housing part. The houses going up are $300k not the proposed affordable ones.