“Hitler loved my joke about gassing the Jews” isn’t exactly proving your point, Dave.
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?
The joke is “haha! see? I’m not funny! I’m just a soulless piece of shit grifter”?
Dave’s on the menu now when we start eating the rich, right?
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.
I didn’t hate him when he made trans jokes, i just don’t find them funny and everyone should be allowed to not be funny. But i found it truly disgusting when he pulled elon musk on stage just to show off his wealthy friend. What a disgusting human being.
Late entry for weird flex of the year.
Goes to a place that slavery is still legal, they like his jokes, he doesn’t see the problem.
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
Gunna hard disagree with you homie. If Dave has any artistic dignity he would not have performed if they preemptively censored him.
So either he is a shill, or he’s a shitty person and a shill.
Don’t know if there is a good way out for the piece of shit.
Oh. I guess I needed the /s on the first part or there’s a misunderstanding, because we do agree
Please don’t take my comment personally, I’m more just screaming into the ether when I comment.
It boggles my mind that this is the same guy who walked away from a multi-year, multimillion dollar TV deal with Comedy Central because he saw a white dude laughing a little too hard at his jokes about race. The fact that he could have that moment of reflection, but not extend it to other marginalized groups, just shows the complete lack of empathy he has in his soul.
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.
The first time I heard Chappelle was the ‘Killing Them Softly’ show where he did a bit about how he didn’t want to get famous. He should have stuck with that.
I think his receiving the Mark Twain prize went to his head.
You would be surprised at how many latinos voted for trump.
Cool. I’m sure they did. He should move there permanently.
Becoming a real life Clayton Bigsby.
It’s a shame Dave Chappelle died immediately after Chappelle’s Show ended. He sure was a funny guy when he was still alive!
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
Of course they did, Dave. They’re just as bigoted as you are.
I believe it. I’m sure the King requested that everyone have a good time too.
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.
Dave should have never come back from Africa.
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.
“They said, ‘Well, Saudi Arabia killed a journalist,’ and rest in peace, Jamal Khashoggi. I’m sorry that he got murdered in such a heinous fashion. And also, look, bro, Israel’s killed 240 journalists in the last three months, so I didn’t know y’all were still counting.”
he does have one well-thought message, albeit with incorrect addressing and postage
now that i look it up, he does already condemn israel much more than palestine (and gotten flak for it). he even called israel a war criminal back in oct 2023. i wonder how this hasn’t caused certain senators including MAGA to try and cancel him yet…
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.
Typical whataboutist deflection. He tries to hide the fact that he is a snivelling piece of shit.
not really he is just showing the gigantic hypocrisy of some woke fighters.
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.
It hardly matters at this point. Even if it wasn’t malicious at first, it became malicious as soon as he doubled down, and tripled down, and quadrupled down…
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
The point does not stands on its own, rainbow people absolutely can have a hard time “passing”, just ask the many gay kids bullied and harassed even when deep in the closet, without even mentioning trans folks.
Even if blackout drunk I managed to forget that, though, “you are fine if you hide who you are” is still a shitty argument to endorse.
A black trans person would absolutely have a hard time passing, but Dave’s point is that being open about one’s LGBTQIA+ status is a choice (arguably not much of one, except that people do it so… it CAN be put away, when someone is ready to “pass”).
Mainly he’s saying that black people are people too, and should be considered as such. He has pointed out how unfair he considers the situation that when white gay men wanted marriage equality, a Supreme Court decision came something like 10 years after the major push started, with everyone in Hollywood backing that. Meanwhile, black people have been waiting for equal rights in the USA for 400+ years, and it’s like “when is it our turn?”
It seems all too convenient for white men who are also gay or trans or whatever to call it quits when they get theirs, leaving POC behind in the dust, again.
I find like many people judge him without ever even listening to his material, so of course cannot really understand it.
That’s dumb as fuck.
I see that he is still punching down.
Fuck Dave & his dumbass jokes too.
To this day, I will never not be convinced he went down the far-right bigotry rabbithole because Elon Musk and/or other oligarchs are paying him to take that stance.
It seems no coincidence to me that after he started attacking the trans community, he invited Musk on stage and tried to defend him from the booing crowd.
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.
