Official Dave Chappelle: The Closer Thread

[George's Dilemma]

A fukking WHITE FEMINIST has one of the best takes on the Special writing for The Atlantic


“Chappelle’s work offers us similar contradictions, and a similar Rorschach test. Is the story here “rich comedian attacks marginalized community” or “Black comedian attacks elite consensus”? That’s why The Closer is structured as a series of dares. Does this joke bother you? What about this one? Early on, the audience bridles a little at a joke about the Chinese origins of the coronavirus. Chappelle soon warns that it’s only going to get worse. Running through the culture war’s greatest hits, he dares critics to take unequal offense, and prove his point about a hierarchy of suffering.

And of course, some critics walked straight into the trap. The negative reaction to The Closer has revolved largely around what he says about LGBTQ people. Chappelle has always been clear about the political argument he is making with this material: In a few short years, gay- and trans-rights activism has achieved the kind of cultural veto that Black Americans have failed to win through decades of struggle. In Chappelle’s telling, no other movement has such power. The rapper DaBaby, censured for remarks about AIDS, was once involved in the fatal shooting of a Black man at a Walmart. (He was not charged in the death but was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon.) “Nothing bad happened to his career,” Chappelle says. “Do you see where I’m going with this?” In the United States, he says, you can shoot and kill a Black person, “but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings.” And no other movement, Chappelle maintains, has been granted such immunity to criticism. Bashing feminists for their privilege is so common that I’m surprised Chappelle’s jokes about “white bytches get[ting] tear-gassed” during the Women’s March didn’t landhim a book deal. The implicit hierarchy of suffering is also the point of his “space Jews” jokes, which rely on an anti-Semitic trope—Holocaust inversion, in which the oppressed people are reincarnated as the oppressor. The Closer is Dave Chappelle pushing all of our buttons, and inviting us to reflect on which ones provoke a reaction.”

Dave Chappelle’s Rorschach Test

Read that yesterday. She nailed that article.

 

[semicko82]

recommended on the Pocket app, which i just deleted....gq.com "the betrayal of dave chappelle".."poet Saeed Jones was a longtime fan of Dave chappelle.....".....ZZzzz.....i can't even watch sports or comedy w/o these B1tch N1ggers ruining it....

 

[Deltron]

watching the specials back to back really is some

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Read that yesterday. She nailed that article.

The Atlantic has some dope reporting tbh.

 

[Robbie3000]

I guess we'll see if they go through with the walk out and how many people decide to walk out.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Id be willing to bet the whole efforts to "cacel" chapelle aint due to the trans comments, i think the "space jews" jokes pissed off some people, and they are using the trannies to their advantage to attack him

jews don’t care about that lil one off joke. A Jewish dude I work with out of nowhere asked me about the special and told me he loved it and the “Space Jew” joke

 

[SunZoo]

Something I didn't think about til last night.

One of the most influential people in America went on TV and essentially made effort to normalize not only having trans friends but making effort to empathize with them.

LBGTQ gang is saying it's hates speech. Peckerwoods somehow think Dave is taking up their crusade against political correctness and neither group really got the fukking point. Because they're white before they whatever political identity they latch on to.

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

I watched it the other day and this is NOTHING compared to the specials I have seen before
It's not as bad as his critics make it seem and it makes me wonder if they even watched it or watched it in full

 

[Cheesy]

Something I didn't think about til last night.

One of the most influential people in America went on TV and essentially made effort to normalize not only having trans friends but making effort to empathize with them.

LBGTQ gang is saying it's hates speech. Peckerwoods somehow think Dave is taking up their crusade against political correctness and neither group really got the fukking point. Because they're white before they whatever political identity they latch on to.

this is a really good and overlooked take on the situation.

 

[Kinguno]

Something I didn't think about til last night.

One of the most influential people in America went on TV and essentially made effort to normalize not only having trans friends but making effort to empathize with them.

LBGTQ gang is saying it's hates speech. Peckerwoods somehow think Dave is taking up their crusade against political correctness and neither group really got the fukking point. Because they're white before they whatever political identity they latch on to.

Almost like it doesn’t matter what Black men say because they weren’t listening anyway

 

[Prince.Skeletor]

 

[Afro]

Dude been consistent

 

[FlyGuy]

Dude been consistent

I feel like I see more people exalting Killing Him Softly as the one, but I think For What It’s Worth is his best special and possibly my favorite stand-up special ever

 

[Renegade47]

yo this shyt got me crying Thoughts? Trans Activist Behind Netflix Walkout Over Dave Chappelle's Comedy Special Gets Exposed For Making Racist & Homosexual Tweets In The Past!

 

[General Mills]

yo this shyt got me crying Thoughts? Trans Activist Behind Netflix Walkout Over Dave Chappelle's Comedy Special Gets Exposed For Making Racist & Homosexual Tweets In The Past!

I came in here looking specifically for this. Just saw this this morning also


Have the decency to clean up your twitter before you go on a rainbow crusade