What you're saying is something that I've begrundigly had to accept. Early 2000s Dave Chappelle is the funniest comic of all time, and not even he can top what he did.
Killin Them Softly is a masterpiece.
I watched all his Netflix shyt, I watched both his SNL bits, I watched everything Chappelle related in the last 4 years of his comeback, and that shyt just ain't hitting
That "so I punched her in the p*ssy" joke was so lame I couldn't belive my GOAT was doing hack shyt.
Also the cigarettes have destroyed his high pitched "Damn look at them tiddies!!!" high pitched delivery which made his great jokes even funnier.
I still have a bootleg of him in 2014 from Radio Music City Hall in NYC, he was incredible.
Somehow he decided to get white people and burgoise blacks as his audience, those new specials just don't hit
Killin Them Softly - 2000
Elephant in The Room, Patrice O'Neal - 2010
Bill Burr - Paper Tiger 2019
Earthquake "about Got damn time" - 2001
(Corey Holcomb live in Boston is great material, just poorly shot)
Are the best comedy specials I've seen this century.