_number8_wtf happened to dave chappelle
Yeah this has since been deleted because he didn’t agree to that caption at all. Dude was just trying to be nice and take a picture.
You can dislike his last stand up special, but I don’t think any part of it could be misconstrued to the point where he was saying there are only two genders or trans people don’t exist.
No, he just dehumanizes trans people and reduces them to their genitals and is generally tone-deaf to all of that.
Quotes from The Closer:
“…The transgenders…”
“Every time I come out onstage, I be scared. I be lookin’ around the crowd, searching. For knuckles and Adam’s apples to see where the threats might be coming from.”
“And then she hikes her skirt up and she pulls a real live, meaty dick out!”
“If I was honest, I wouldn’t have fallen for it. I’d have just looked at the picture like, “Look at that big chiseled jawline, that big thick Joe Rogan neck. Is that a dude? Is your daughter a man?” Can’t say that shit. It’s really annoying.”
“…trans-bitch from the picture.”
“A couple of more drinks and these fellows are gonna start asking her for some pussy, she might not have.”
“I was careful to call her a bitch, ’cause I didn’t want to blow her cover.”
" “Well.” I am a girl now, n*gger. You must treat me as such."
“Gender is a fact.”
“Now… I am not saying that to say, that trans women aren’t women. I’m just sayin, that those pussies that they got… You know what I mean?”
“I’m not saying it is not pussy, but that’s like Beyond Pussy or Impossible Pussy. You know what I mean? It tastes like pussy but that’s not quite what it is, is it? It’s not blood, that is beet juice.”
I’m not going to quote his story about the one trans person who passed whatever litmus test he decided to implement to determine if someone deserves his respect or not, but it summed up to the equivalent of someone saying something racist and finishing with, “well, I have black friends, though!”
Literal hot trash
【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】This is such a dumb take.
Friend, it’s a comedy special. He’s a comedian. It’s not like when one of these bigots says a bunch of biggoted shit and then tries to escape responsibility by saying they were just joking. Dave Chapelle is actually telling jokes, though.
And get this…you don’t need to laugh at it. But the special you’re quoting from was filmed in front of a live show and was a smash hit, and that’s to be expected because dude fairly consistently brings the house down wherever he goes. The crowds have voted. There’s no such thing as a successful comedian who isn’t funny to most people and plenty of Chappelle fans, comedy fans, and comedians, say Dave Chappelle is the living GOAT.
You’ve taken every quote out of context and in doing so you obviously you killed the jokes and maligned the comedian. Stick to your day job you don’t know shit about funny.
You don’t really need to be funny to “most people” as a comedian to be successful, though, you just need to be funny to the vast majority of your audience. There are like 300 million people in the US, if you were even funny to 3 million people, or 1% of the population, you could be a modestly successful comedian commuting between cities and releasing little specials. I also find it weird to say that someone else “don’t know shit about funny”: I thought it was pretty obvious that comedy was subjective, and not something that has any actual winning formula like the pretentious old guard of comedians would have everyone believe, as is in their best interest.
Really parsing things. You don’t get to be a legendary comedian without being funny. The killers are wanted in all 50 states.
That wasn’t really my point, I was just saying one man’s funny is another man’s transphobic, and that you can make money and be successful by being funny to like. I dunno, 5% of the population, rather than “most people”.