Also, he is smoking indoors during his speech and addresses what he thinks about doing that. What bothers me is his use of the N word with little kids in the audience.
Dave Chapelle Mark Twain acceptance. Interesting take on his view of comedy and racists
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Nah in this one we just have a "brittle spirit" apparently.
Dave Chappelle defends humor, reflects on 'terrifying' comeback in Mark Twain special
"Don’t be afraid,” the comedian advises in "Dave Chappelle: The Mark Twain Prize" airing Tuesday. “Don’t let these (critics) button your lip.”
www.usatoday.com
lol if he wants to live amongst soldiers so bad he should quit comedy and join the militaryNah in this one we just have a "brittle spirit" apparently.
Dave Chappelle defends humor, reflects on 'terrifying' comeback in Mark Twain special
"Don’t be afraid,” the comedian advises in "Dave Chappelle: The Mark Twain Prize" airing Tuesday. “Don’t let these (critics) button your lip.”www.usatoday.com
I love the monologue about just get over racism followed by a joke about getting to smoke inside because hes famous. Ur rich af and get to skip most the bs.
White comic: so I'm talking to my ni...Nah in this one we just have a "brittle spirit" apparently.
Dave Chappelle defends humor, reflects on 'terrifying' comeback in Mark Twain special
"Don’t be afraid,” the comedian advises in "Dave Chappelle: The Mark Twain Prize" airing Tuesday. “Don’t let these (critics) button your lip.”www.usatoday.com
You act like there’s no line in the sand when it comes to comedy that we generally deem acceptable in 2020.
Dave Chappelle is quickly becoming the spokesperson for the backlash to social justice movements. He might say some funny shit from time to time, but let's not pretend like this attitude is anything but reductionist "ok boomer"-worthy garbage. The man ran out of interesting things to say over a decade ago.
The past couple years he's been telling people to say whatever they want without fear of backlash while also making trans people the butt of a lot of his jokes. Read between the lines.
Yeah just curious what he said about it at the awards show considering he's doing it with fucking kids standing there.
Not that it matters much, but that's his daughter, son, and wife.
Heard what stuff?
I'm asking what he said about smoking.. I brought up the kids thing because of smoking, not what he said.. If he's justifying smoking inside he probably smoked inside around his kids. Shit pisses me off.
(but I still want to know what he said.. not sure why everyone is assuming I know.. when I asked lol)
I'm not sure how two overly prissy millionaires complaining that people rightly call them transphobes counts as a "backlash."
Pretty much just that he can. That they're not going to throw him out during his acceptance speech.
He’s a transphobic POS and continues to double down on punching down on that group. Fuck him.
Nice speech. We need that Thundercat X Mos Def footage ASAP
lmao so good.
I just think lines in the sand are very subjective, very tricky things. I don’t want to be the morality police for my specific brand of ‘acceptable’. There are comedians that *have* crossed the line for me, even if I acknowledge that’s just part of their act and persona, not necessarily their personal convictions, and I don’t watch or listen to their material anymore.
It’s not that tricky when we’re talking about punching down on trans people as a cis person and being relentlessly unapologetic about the upset it causes. You wouldn’t hand-wring around white people doing blackface and the like and speak of subjective morals.
As I said, there’s a line around general acceptability in comedy and it persistently is drawn to include transphobia, which isn’t surprising since transphobia often manifests in the belief that trans identity is a joke or made up. Something to not be taken seriously. So why we’re giving comedians a pass for leaning into that or acting like it’s separate from the way transphobia manifests as a joke is
to me.
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