Dave Chappelle - "Killin' 'Em Softly"

I laughed when he kept talking about this french actor, Juicy Smollé. The second half was far better than the first half.

I found a lot of the problematic stuff technically "funny" even though I agree that it's problematic/punching down/ethically bad.

stuff like the LGBT car trip I was just like... c'mon Dave, why do you feel this is necessary?

oh man, that was definitely not even a little funny.

I'm guessing he feels it was "necessary" because of the negative criticism his past jokes about LGBT received. He's not gonna let the PC twitter mob stifle is comedic freedom!!

its really sad how the PC police have shut down comedians like Dave Chappelle, you barely hear about them anymore

ums, if you don't find the gun riff funny please tell me what stand-up specials in the last 5 years are actually funny

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, September 5, 2019 4:10 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

NEVER!!!!

Hahahahahahahahaha

I still crack up at his "exasperated" voice ("Rope?!") and found moments in the new one hilarious, but his standup is less physical than it used to be, there are fewer stories where he plays different characters, he doesn't bound around the stage like he did when he was younger. Bulking up has changed his delivery — that loose, light, cartoonish quality is mostly gone, and it's one of the things I loved most about him in the early days.

totally agree...that gets back to the discussion upthread of his current macho persona. I suppose it's foolish to expect him to be the same at 46 as he was at 30, but it's not a minor change imo. Very different performer now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tR6mKcBbT4

His actual comeback special didn't do much for me, but this is really something else. I hope he does more of these - and I would not have anticipated my saying that even a few months ago.

This is unbelievable. Holy shit.

yeah, wow
"fuck everyone in staten island except the wu tang clan" is bound to be a rallying cry in nyc

well this puts a smile on my face. can't wait to watch it.

omg I hear Tribe's "Stressed Out" in the background at the beginning <3

man, that kicked my ass.

It's really good.

wow. standing O, Dave.

glad i got to see that today.

this was really good

the Ja Rule callback

Damn. Yeah, that was incredible.

The way he keeps coming back to the 8:46 is devastating in highlighting the senseless horror of it all.

this was really powerful
appreciated that the crowd seemed attentive even though it wasn't necessarily a comedy special

already saw a clip of Don Lemon reacting appreciatively to his little nod in this special. he's glad to be "memorialized" by it and extends an invitation to Dave to come on his show! what a nice guy

Candace Owens probably a little less flattered by the new attention this will bring her via thousands of angry young men curious to find out whether or not she really does have a particularly odorous vagina

she played it well in her post about it

<i>she played it well in her post about it</i>

Really? It reads to me like she's thrilled to get any kind of attention from anybody because it's all she wants in life.

That makes her smart like Trump. Attention can be monetized. Even getting justifiably slagged off to a million people can be used to increase your income, assuming you don't mind getting justifiably slagged off to a million people who will start to hate you (but remotely).

I'm watching this again

/she played it well in her post about it/

Really? It reads to me like she's thrilled to get any kind of attention from anybody because it's all she wants in life.

It took me all day to watch this in small increments.

yeah I still need to get through all of this, it is extremely heavy

that last couple of minutes tying it all together is just... stunning

God damn that was amazing

I really wanna see this due to all the praise but I'm finding it hard to press play due to his callousness towards trans people in the past few years

yeah, understandable. it's in a completely different lane, just about his pain and his community's pain.

of course as soon as i say that
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/dave-chappelle-846-is-powerful-but-not-quite-perfect.html

Overnight, an eagle-eyed Twitter user noticed a discrepancy between the closed captioning and the audio and video of the 8:46 performance, which currently lives on Netflix’s comedy channel on YouTube, specifically in the section on Don Lemon. At the 7:45 mark in the audio and video, Chappelle calls the CNN host’s show a “hotbed of reality” with a laugh, takes a sip of his drink, then the camera cuts to the audience and back to him telling the story about being called out on the air for his presumed silence on Minneapolis. The clip posted to Twitter shows a riff in the closed captioning that isn’t present in the video: “Don Lemon is a funny newscaster because he’s clearly gay, but … he’s the anomaly. He’s black and gay, but unlike my other black and gay friends, he’s got this weird self-righteousness …” Then it shows Chappelle preparing to do an impression of the anchor, which tracks with the silly voice he puts on at the 7:48 mark as he begins to recount what Lemon said on the air, which would suggest that a portion of the joke was cut that stayed in the closed captioning. By morning, as the clip spread on Twitter, captioning on 8:46 was disabled. Later in the day it was restored, but the words jump ahead of Chappelle by one line right at the section in question. (Vulture reached out to Netflix and is still awaiting comment.)

What happened here? What changed in a week? Is Chappelle just incapable of going 30 minutes onstage without proclaiming that he doesn’t get what makes queer folks tick but suddenly net-savvy enough to know to filter himself now? Or did he pull those lines because he’s beginning to see the light, because it undercuts his message about the chilling consistency of black pain and disenfranchisement across centuries to single out one subdivision of black man for ridicule?

so the bieest problem with it is something that didn't make the cut?

we already knew chappelle is shall we say not terribly advanced on these issues

I don't begrudge anyone for not engaging w/ him but that complaint is silly season shit imo

i didn't think it was that special tbh but a lot of chappelle doesn't really hit for me. as far as lucid anger goes the kimberly jones video really connected with / shook me.

Will check that out. I thought the Chappelle set was incredible, watched it this morning terribly hungover. They were right to cut that line imo

"Is Chappelle just incapable of going 30 minutes onstage without proclaiming that he doesn’t get what makes queer folks tick," is the complaint that seems notable here. It's tremendously powerful stuff otherwise.

but he did go 30 minutes without doing it. he didn't do that bit

oh wait, they're saying they edited the video? hmm. that's different.

I initially thought maybe the captioning was written using an advanced written copy of the bit or something.

Is it different really

I mean in the context of the article, not so much "does it actually undercut the overarching message of the piece"

This felt historic.

On the more superficial side of things, if anyone else was wondering about that pavilion:
https://www.dwell.com/home/the-wirrig-pavilion-4ac1055b

Ah xp

I'd been mostly trying to tune him out recently but I'm very glad I watched that, it really brought the pathos. He's right, I do trust him as an honest voice even if his views have become somewhat regressive.