i mean ffs most of the people sharing concerns have stated they found part or most of the special funny! I heard the uncomfortable transexual jokes when I actually saw him in 2015, and I still left the show feeling like I was entertained.
but when you're a close ally of the LGBTQ community where 40% of your friends are gay, and you're hearing a comedian make a joke about a transexual that seems to be making open mockery of the topic, only a few years after a transexual person got beaten into a near-coma in a McDonald's for "using the wrong bathroom", while the people around you sit stone-faced when Chappelle asks you to cheap for the gay community and then guffaws loudly at his transphobic jokes, it's a bit discomforting.
maybe not as much when you're sitting at home watching it on TV, but I heard this shit as part of an audience that shall I say seemed a bit meathead and not very progressive.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
cheap = "cheer"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
feel bad for people who seem to be unable to take off their "liberal crusader" hat any time ever
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:25 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
feel bad for people who are shitheads
― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
i wish i could laugh my stupid ass off at gags about "trannies". what a burden a conscience is
yes just look down on anyone who isn't exactly like you. call them names. tell them they have no morals. it's really working out well for you types.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
I turned it off because I didn't laugh once, not because anything was particularly offensive - he'd have to stretch some ways to match '70s/'80s Pryor/Murphy/Carlin for offensiveness. Like, the "I went to the Oscars instead of Flint" bit was just... okay, you're an asshole and you're copping to being an asshole (kind of), now make it a joke or a funny revealing story or something.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:52 PM (twenty-five seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
uh
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
it's a neat trick, this anti-bigotry-won-trump-the-election horseshit
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:54 (seven years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 3:52 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fuck up, you total clown.
― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:54 (seven years ago) link
there's "anti-bigotry" and then there's this stick up the ass holier than thou shit.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
in part 2 he does a bit about not wanting to "switch up his whole pronoun game" to suit "trannies" (an inclination I am actually somewhat sympathetic to or, at least, familiar with) but he illustrates it in a p gross way ("gay CPR" etc.) and then fumbles what should be the punchline/turnaround (that "nigger" is also a pronoun, one he presumably doesn't want various people to use to address him, but he doesn't actually go there and spell it out). The whole bit just ends up being weird and disconcerting instead of funny or insightful imo.
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:56 (seven years ago) link
in a way, dave chappelle taking a totally chauvinistic, traditional masculinity uber alles approach to comedy is the real radicalism. so brave.
xp you are so full of shit.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
not you, Shakey; Granny Dainger
yes because my opinions don't match up 100% with yours I'm a full of shit total clown. got it. peace I'm going outside, try it some time.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
i have made no judgement whatsoever of people who watched and enjoyed these specials. i'm reacting to your reaction to people not enjoying it by coming out condescending and mealy mouthed garbage like:
"feel bad for people who seem to be unable to take off their "liberal crusader" hat any time ever".
oh you do? great, i feel bad for the fact that you're a cunt.
― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
like he could've walked that bit into an understanding of respecting people and calling them whatever they want to be called, and he *still* could've worked in the "a medical emergency is not the time to argue about these distinctions" joke/premise but he didn't bother. It made the whole bit just feel exploitative, an opportunity for him to do his p boneheaded stereotypical-flouncing-homo impression and "her dick is hanging out" lines.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 22:59 (seven years ago) link
i fondly remember the dave chappelle who pointed out that WB cartoons promoted rape culture over this i really really liked bill cosby rapist superhero apologist
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
more name calling. that's what cunts do!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:01 (seven years ago) link
p much agree with Shakey last few posts. they were basically lame jokes, the end.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
wait are you posting from outside now
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
lol Shakey
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:07 (seven years ago) link
the first person to do anything remotely approximating "calling names" was sleepingbag (granted it was mild), the second one was....actually you, Granny
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link
and then i brought it on home
― gimp in wankouver (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:59 PM (forty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you've always been a sanctimonious clown, tho, is the thing
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
the pronoun stuff is hilarious. some people act like we are living in the year 2050
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link
like he could've walked that bit into an understanding of respecting people and calling them whatever they want to be called
https://i.redditmedia.com/qFAzGT8xdIRE-f_kZI6UZ6fgx7e7ofCSjwWfbPrA4DY.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:05 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/j3kL9iF.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:06 (seven years ago) link
i.redditmedia.com
― 1staethyr, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
all these years i just thought adam was stupid
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:21 (seven years ago) link
i love being right
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
fuck you
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
i mean, horray for being right, asshole.
maybe you guys are right and this comedian should have rewritten all his jokes so that nobody was made fun of
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:24 (seven years ago) link
maybe he also should have rewritten them so that they were jokes
― horseshoe, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
and did not seem embittered by the existence of other people
― horseshoe, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
for real, dave chappelle used to strike me as a really kind dude. it's a shame.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
also i miss his old voice
i always thought of him as a kind dude! it weirds me out that he's more into KIR
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
KIR about his kind of mean, obvious iconoclasms. oh you're a cis man who is made uncomfortable by transgender women because you might be attracted to one? how novel.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
i also remember with fondness his bit about feeling bad for monica lewinsky because "that's a hard thing to be famous for." he used to seem more empathetic.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
these were both p bad. bummer.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link
his empathy was always one of the things i liked most about him
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:43 (seven years ago) link
come on gay cpr is a gag you could see on Modern Family
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:43 (seven years ago) link
fuck that show too while we're here
― horseshoe, Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link
like there were some glimpses of the old Dave there and some legitmately funny bits but too many of these jokes were like some Rob Schneider shit
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Thursday, 30 March 2017 00:48 (seven years ago) link
some people act like we are living in the year 2050
This is just such a weird thing to say - like if you agree we're going to be less assholish in the future, why not start now?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:14 (seven years ago) link
Who and how you make fun of people is kind of central to the concept of comedy - punching down is rarely funny (and thus why conservative comedians are terrible or nonexistent).
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:19 (seven years ago) link
tough crowd in here...
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webassets.ticketmob.com/LS/images/comedians/Rodney-Dangerfield.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
i have to say it again: that long-ass story about eating the sandwiches and his kid at school was really lame. and so very long. the weird thing about it was that it wasn't believable at all.
bill burr wastes the last half of his new special telling a shaggy dog story about a gorilla and its also lame. points for committing to a bit though, i guess.
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
I love the sandwich story, esp the line about how a Dave Chappelle bit increases its value
― SSN Lucci (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 March 2017 01:26 (seven years ago) link