Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people
Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people
It’s the comedian’s first special for the streamer since 2021’s highly controversial ‘The Closer’
Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.
“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).
It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.
That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.
He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.
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Dave is just a weak, hateful little guy now
He found out that getting bad press is better than no press. Like the original thing that got him caught up in the headlines was crass but that's sort of his humor. This one, he's just being a gigantic penis about it and banking on the follow up outrage.
The thing is the anti-politically correct shtick only last so long. At some point it just becomes noise and then you have to up the ante which in turn alienates more people. Rise and repeat till it's difficult to get a booking anywhere but FoxNews.
Like much of anything. It's his career, far be it for me to tell him how to run it. But his comedy routine as of late has just turned resentful and aiming to get as many people to gasp "Oh my, he's such a bastard!" And in reality it just comes off as a big yawn.