jwb

I disagree i think hes a top notch comedian. The specific trans joke from that special... Yeah that was mostly just funny cause of the face. But that was not even close to the best material in the special.

TheBig3

Yeah? IMO this was the worst of his specials since the comeback. Felt like story time with some humorous observations along the way. I was bored throughout.

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jwb

I only watched the first half or so and there was definitely a fixation on lgbt **** but it was still pretty funny.... I was drunk at I'm trying to remember but i thought the idea of him enjoying busting in a priests face as a kid was pretty funny

SGR

I think Chappelle has definitely expanded and built upon his comedic techniques. He seems like much more of a story teller lately - of course, if you don't find it funny, then his abilities as a story teller are kind of a moot point. But I find his ability to weave a long series of vignettes that all feel like they flow naturally from one to the other to be rather impressive.

I have thought his latest Netflix specials were okay. I don't remember if I liked this one more than the previous ones. There's some parts that really crack me up and there are other parts that somewhat drag.

Chappelle is supremely talented though, no doubt. I will admit, I tire of the LGBTQ+ subject matter though. It's not that he doesn't make the jokes work, because most of the time he does - I just think that as a basis for jokes and comedy, it does get somewhat played out. There's so much material in contemporary politics, culture and news these days that Chappelle could utilize to great effect but he chooses to narrow his focus instead and for that, I think the specials are somewhat lesser as a result.

That being said, the media attention he manages to generate with them, and the Twitter outrage obviously garners a lot of press. I'm sure it's not unintentional.

jwb

I agree. That's a pretty good assessment like some of the lgbt jokes were funny but it was like move on already... **** is starting to become a fixation.

I also noticed he shifted a towards more black identity politics to deflect from the lgbt criticism so he's definitely playing the game

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He's pretty much always talked about race a lot. I think he fell off a while ago but lol.

SGR

Right? There's definitely other stuff out there I'd love to hear him make jokes about. I mean, there's plenty of other comedians making jokes about this stuff (Covid, Trump, Biden, Kanye West, Afghanistan, etc.), but none of those comedians are Dave Chappelle.

I don't know if deflection was his intention, but I did notice when he mentioned his trans friend - sounded a bit to me like the classic "But I have black friends!" retort to an accusation of racism.

jwb

I didn't get that far but i did hear about he brought up his trans friend who was a comedian who killed themselves after being twitter mobbed for standing by chappelle...

Frownland

Chapelle's long game is unmatched.

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The Batlord

So he's using his dead trans friend to attack trans people?

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