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Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people (www.independent.co.uk)

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Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

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[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not sure how many of you watched this based on the comments here

But his jokes really were not transphobic in this special at all

Watch the thing with context and see

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

But as it was happening… I was very disappointed. Because I wanted to meet Jim Carrey, and I had to pretend this n*gga was Andy Kaufman… all afternoon. It was clearly Jim Carrey. I could look at him and I could see he was Jim Carrey.

Anyway, I say all that to say… that’s how trans people make me feel.

That's extremely transphobic and not even an attempt at being funny.

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“Give me your fruit cocktail, bitch, before I knock your motherf*cking teeth out. I’m a girl, just like you, bitch. Come here and suck this girl’s dick I got. Don’t make me explain myself. I’m a girl”

Also very transphobic, and there's more.

Here's the complete transcript of his new program.

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/dave-chappelle-the-dreamer-transcript/

[–] LotrOrc@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

When you pull out specific lines without the entire context of the joke, you can make literally anything sound bad.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could you give some context? I'm definitely not going to watch it based on just a "take my word for it" argument. He's been known to toe the line and get rude when people call him out on it. At this point I have to assume he is being transphobic simply because that's been a problem for him in the past.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

OK. You're entitled to your biases and unfounded opinions as much as the next person. Doesn't mean we need to respect them.

[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Today in bizzaroworld, asking for context demonstrates bias and unfounded opinion.

[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Did you miss the part about how he's not going to watch it himself but already has an opinion based on his own assumptions?