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Dave Chappelle Netflix Standup Trailer: Sticks & Stones (narrated by God)
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While it probably wouldn't be made today, did you see Tropic Thunder?
It's not.
You said nothing is off limits in comedy. So is that actually nothing or just some things?
And further why is the mockery of the existence of trans people open season but black face may not be? They're not the same but they are similar in that both dehumanize marginalized people.
Just finished this. Nigga had to pause and take a breath at that duck grease bit. This nigga Dave man
Do yourself a favor and watch Killing Them Softly. It illustrates how painfully average these newer specials are.
I plan to watch them all and the Chapelle show which everyone kept cheering.
Chappelle's Show has never been topped. It is hands down, pound-for-pound the best comedy sketch show of all time.
It's a pretty simple question if you feel comfortable with the assertion there are no limits. You're being asked to defend your position that you yourself offered.
Ok.
Also, are you suggesting that blackface is not off limits? Because that's what the conversation was about that you chimed in on.
Nothing offends me when it comes to comedy, I'm sure Dave Chapelle could write a funny black face joke if he wanted to.
Use your fucking imagination. You can't see an Arrested Development episode where Tobias auditions for a role in Black Panther or some shit?
User Banned (1 week): dismissing concerns around blackface/racism.
Nothing should be off limits in comedy. The It's Always Sunny Lethal Weapon episode is one of my favorites and it has Mac and Dee in blackface.
Just so we're all clear. A joke involving blackface that involves more than just showing a character in blackface is fine.
Dave's whole joke was "imagine being born into the wrong body. That is funny. Imagine if I believed I were Chinese in this body. Walking around making a squinty Asian stereotype face and talking in a stereotypical accent."
Hilarious punchline, that being trans sucks for trans people but is funny if you have privilege.
Truly a visionary noting society through a refreshing lens.
Dave's whole joke was "imagine being born into the wrong body. That is funny. Imagine if I believed I were Chinese in this body. Walking around making a squinty Asian stereotype face and talking in a stereotypical accent."
Hilarious punchline, that being trans sucks for trans people but is funny if you have privilege.
Truly a visionary noting society through a refreshing lens.
User Banned (Permanent): Dismissing concerns around blackface/racism; prior severe bans for dismissing bigotry and for dismissing concerns of sexual misconduct
Dee did blackface and a hugely offensive Asian impression in one episode. It was fucking hilarious.Nothing should be off limits in comedy. The It's Always Sunny Lethal Weapon episode is one of my favorites and it has Mac and Dee in blackface.
You literally just suggested I use my imagination to find a scenario where blackface is funny.
Laughed my ass off on all of his opioid bits.
What is this epilogue people keep talking about?
This is phrased as a gotcha question but there's popular media that's used it hilariously in the past decade. It actually helps the point tbh
It played right after the special for me. It's called "The Punchline" under the Trailers and More section on Netflix. He's basically shooting the shit with the audience after his set
I heard about this but it didn't work for me using Apple TV.
His comedy has always been like this. Treating serious subjects with levity.
And your misrepresenting his Chinese joke. He has stated numerous times on his specials that "trans people are people born into the wrong body" so it's not someone who "believes he is Chinese" it is a Chinese person born into the wrong body.
It's probably one of the things he's been very direct about, it's a performance he doesn't have to tell his true feelings. Now how you think we should approach the subject of "people born in the wrong body" is very personal but his joke that the difference between poor black people and poor white people is that poor whites don't believe it should be happening to them says more about privilege than your comment.
So?
Are you under the misapprehension that by finding something funny you're condoning it?
Lol wow.
And not just "find funny" but *checks notes* put myself into an imaginative headspace where I can find hilarity in blackface in TV or film.
That's gonna be a yikes from me.
It doesn't follow that that is defending blackface, though. A scenario involving, for example, murder isn't necessarily defending murder. A joke involving a character saying the n word isn't necessarily defending its use. It depends on a whole host of things — the intent, the author, the tone, the meaning in the context of the joke / scenario, etc.
I'd say what Dave did is quite different from blackface.
Although, I get your point.
You're just talking nonsense now.
Being able to find humour in a situation or behaviour is not the same as condoning the behaviour itself.
Stop just throwing out buzzwords.
Buzzwords? What are you talking about?
Chappelle made a ridiculously transphobic & homophobic special and people are waving away these communities' concerns. Which to me is fucked up. I'm justtrying to find what Chappelle stans' bottom is. And now we're seeing people try to find ways to justify humor in blackface. I'm also trying to make sense of people's thinking around so called comedy that revolves around punching down at marginalized people.
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US and Canada Netflix have it after the special. I don't know other countries. Some posters here from Japan say they didn't get it.
Shut it all down y'all Chappelle found one so everyone else can be safely ignored!
No the joke is to contrast something that is accepted as true with something ridiculous and encourage the audience to see trans people as ridiculous.
The whole joke centers on lol trans folk thinking they are who they are is as laughable as Chappelle thinking he's Chinese.
It's just a modified attack helicopter joke.
Chappelle's schtick is to basically joke that trans folk are crazy but they should have the right to be crazy. Which is still transphobic
Death, poverty, racism, violence, hunger.
There are ways to see humour in all sorts of subjects. Are you familiar with dark comedy?
Stop pretending you're trying to "make sense" or "trying to find" anything. You just want to browbeat people into either seeing things your way - which isn't going to happen - or trip them up so you can play another misguided gotcha.
You didn't like the special. That's ok. But extending your objection out into "bad things can never be funny and if you think they are, you're condoning them", is just stupid.
Thats what people were trying to point out by posting about Tropic Thunder, a comedy that literally has a character in Blackface the whole film, and other TV shows. But these days people see what they want to see. Honestly giving this topic conversation any more is just a waste of time now anyway. Its done, special did well, people enjoyed it, and some folks didnt. Sound exactly like every other comedic routine in the world. Sorry if you didnt like it, but no, folks aren't going to trash/cancel a person over a stand up special you didn't like. Make peace with that, or don't. Im honestly done.
Dark comedy is great. Cheap punching down at marginalized people is not.
And we certainly don't need to agree. I would suggest not dismissing people's concerns about this special even if you don't agree with them.
Man, his bit about Renee from standards-and-practices is so stupid. "Renee" says the network isn't comfortable with him satirically using a slur aimed at gays because he is not gay. They give him leeway to satirically use a slur aimed at black people because he is black. That's not hard to understand, is it? And it's not particularly deep.
Because he's a member of the marginalized group of people that the n-word is aimed at. Isn't this question the contrapositive of asking "why are white people not allowed to say n*****?"