New Chappelle special searing hourlong takedown of trans cashier who forgot to smile at him

I used to be lukewarm about Dave Chappelle’s comedy,” says Travis Merks of Calgary, “but I’m really coming around to him now that he’s awful.”

LOL that was a solid one, Beaverton.

This is too good: I couldn't tell if it was satire until I looked at the comments.

Dave Chappelle isn't funny anymore

Chappelle’s quickly-released followup special, titled So Brave,
Lost it lol
- His tone and delivery doesn't make his whining about being 'canceled' or his bigoted jokes from the last five or so years better.
- My favourite joke was when he said that if he went to prison he'd say he was a woman and rape everyone - that was hilarious, and definitely not a screaming self-report.
  What way your favourite joke about those icky transes?

Dave became a rich old white hick. It's not just bad trans humor, it's old, tired ass bad trans humor. Same style of jokes rich old racist morons use. Hicks absolutely love that kind of empty headed shit though, so they defend him.

Now the fact that Dave disappeared to FUCKING OHIO and "worked on comedy" in fucking OHIO tells you everything you need to know about how fucking unfunny Dave Chappelle is now.
I used to be a huge fan. Now he's just not funny anymore bigot or no.
- Now the fact that Dave disappeared to FUCKING OHIO and "worked on comedy" in fucking OHIO tells you everything you need to know about how fucking unfunny Dave Chappelle is now.
  I don't think Yellow Springs, OH is the reason Dave Chappelle is now a transphobic asshole, as you're suggesting. Yellow Springs was first started as an attempt to create a socialist utopia. It's super hippie dippy, and home to a notable liberal arts school. It's historically much much more liberal than the rest of Ohio.
  Also he's lived there since like 2005, well before his transition into a transphobic asshole.
  In my opinion, the reason is money, along with the "fuck you I got mine" attitude that comes with oodles and oodles of money.
- Dude was a guy who was totally willing to call bullshit to things and stand up for people.
  But then for some reason, he saw a group of marginalized individuals being mistreated, feeling isolated and committing suicide and said, "Let me fuck with them too."
  The karma is when his kids turn on him.
- https://www.thebeaverton.com/site-disclaimer/
It wasn't just tired-arse bad trans humour, it was tired-arse bad humour. I got 17 minutes in before I had to stop - I got past the offensive jokes, and then I was stuck listening to jokes other comedians were telling 20 years ago. If I'd kept listening, I'm sure he eventually would've made a joke about airline food.
He's been smoking so much weed the last 20 years the world passed him by.
- I've been smoking weed for 20 years and I'm not a homophobic, ableist piece of shit and I certainly wouldn't use a Netflix platform to tell bigoted jokes. So I don't think it's the weed. It could be that he's just an asshole.
- i think it's the mussie stuff more than the weed
I'm not a coward about words, but I've had this point deleted by mods before.
Malcolm describes the difference between the "house **gro" and the "field **gro."
If someone came to the house **gro and said, "Let's go, let's separate," naturally that Uncle Tom would say, "Go where? What could I do without boss? Where would I live? How would I dress? Who would look out for me?" That's the house **gro. But if you went to the field **gro and said, "Let's go, let's separate," he wouldn't even ask you where or how. He'd say, "Yes, let's go." And that one ended right there.
Full speech: https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/mxp/speeches/mxa17.html
Dont take away someone's blackness, no matter how shitty
The Beaverton is Canadian Satire news. Don't ya feel like an idiot now lmao
- I mean it’s literally posted in theonion group… don’t ya feel like an idiot now lmao
- Uhhhh he does actually have a Netflix special where half of it is bad trans jokes tho so who really is the idiot?
- This really ain't the "gotcha" you think it is, buddy. Try again.
- The only thing better than watching a bully make an ass of themselves is when they do it trying to mock someone else for not understanding something when they are actually the person who doesn't understand. I've seen two today already, the assholes are out in force!
  Tl;dr: wicked self own bro.
- You leapt in to defend uncle Dave before checking the c/, huh?

Chappelle: I'd like to announce my new special, "Let's get TERFy". It's just me in front of a brick wall making transphobic jokes for an hour. It cost 80 million dollars.

Interviewer: How do you sleep at night?

Chappelle: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

Lol, nothing beats a cromulent Simpsons reference.

The Beaverton is like a Canadian Onion of sorts.

I stopped watching this guy when he sold out to Elon Musk. How lost do you have to be to do that when you're as famous as this guy was?

Yeah that was such a I hang with rich people weird move that made no sense. Almost felt like Musk paid to go on stage and Dave was like yeah I'll take your money.

I didn't think he's as transphobic as he's put out to be. However, he's not coming off great and I don't see why he needs those bits. He's a better comedian than that.

Like I think I saw a clip of one of his most recent ones and at the end it ... the point was that a trans man or women doesn't really look much like who they want to be or identify as to him. I mean, it seems dehumanizing doesn't it?

Well, maybe he is as transphobic, maybe I gotta see the whole special to get it and it's part of a larger gag. In any case, I'm not a fan of that type of stuff. Also, he brought Musk on stage so fuck him.

The transphobia stands out because it's neither funny nor relevant - there's no purpose to it other than to be a cunt performatively.
The Lil Nas X song he talks about is what - 2 years old now? Beyond that, the "jokes" are the same thing the daily wire has been rolling out for years - "He has a penis and thinks he's a she hurrr durrr."
Then there was the whole "If I went to prison, I'd say I'm a woman and rape everyone in sight" hilarity.
Has he ever told a funny trans joke?
- That last joke I freaking hate. I swear it's so goddamned lazy. I'm watching a regular YouTuber talk about some random topic and he decides to chat with his audience and he makes the exact same joke. "Hur dur, if I go jail I'd identity as a women and be super woke cause that's all they care about now and I'll get off scot-free".
  I hate it.
- Has anyone?
I think Dave just became an old man with set opinions earlier than he was supposed to.
He has similar energy to a not-quite-racist-but-certainly-off-color grandpa.
He's whatever it takes to grab the headlines. If transphobic comedy is what it takes, that's what he's going to give.
It's his schtick, He goes there because it's an easy way to differentiate, few people are going to go there these days.
- The problem, from a comedy perspective, is that lots of people go there. Ricky Gervais, every right wing late wanna be news or comedy talk show host, every unoriginal Twitter/X jokester, your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving, etc. The "I identify as X" joke they all derive from has been dated since like 2010.
  The only reason he makes headlines is because he's famous and used to be good, and now his bigotry makes people angry and sad instead of laugh. Those reactions do draw clicks, and it makes him want to strike out and keep doing it, because all famous, rich people are children who are mad at people who don't like them.

you know I think most people understand that a comedian's "role" is to be funny, right. and then, they will argue against that comedian, on the basis that they are not living up to their role, they're not funny. dave's wrong because he's not funny. if only dave was funny, then what he's doing would be fine! I think this is kind of misguided, kind of dumb. you argue against them, accepting the premise of their argument, but then you have an inability to fully take their perspective, see the comedy they apparently can see, and then it kind of falls flat. you're also not the arbiter of comedy, like, have some perspective, some shitheels are going to find that funny, and their comedy, you know, it exists. we have to stop pretending like it doesn't.

no, my issue isn't with his comedy, whether or not he's funny, I don't really give a shit about that. I care about whether or not what he's doing is morally right. comedy is just kind of blatant escapism anyways. are the dozens of people saved from suicide by direct consequence of watching dave's comedy, are they worth the lifetimes of time wasted on watching him? I don't want to get like morally puritanical about all media, or say that countercultural media has no place in society, right, but I also think that you have to be trying to do something with your media. just kind of throwing it out there so people can whittle away their life on laughing at your funnyman jokes is kind of lame. that's why george carlin was good. george carlin was actually not that funny. I know, sacrilege, heresy, whatever. I prefer mitch hedberg, pure wordplay. it's not that he was funny, it's that he was legitimately correct, and radical for the time, and unfortunately still somewhat radical today. but it stems from the fact that he was correct. dave being funny, not funny, whatever. but dave is just blatantly incorrect in his worldview, here. the perspective from which he makes these jokes, i'm sure the jokes he's cracking are funny from that perspective, but it's a wrong perspective, a bad perspective. it shouldn't like, not be allowed, be outlawed, not be conversed with, discussed, but it's a wrong perspective. and i find his comedy to be bad on that basis, rather than on the basis that he's not funny.

I love the way you write

Chappelle does this because of something people are afraid to talk about because of the identity of the person doing this. An easier way to understand it is identity politics. Didn't he admit that trans people get more shit than black people now? They don't even dog whistle us. People can talk about outright killing trans people and incite violence without any consequences. And it's not like the police like us either.

I always find it funny that people forget the whole story of the Closer in his special, where he took his trans friend and comedian Daphne on tour, effectively giving her, arguably the single largest possible chance a comedian could have?

Don't want to spoil it but damn, that story broke me.

I assure you nobody has forgotten that Dave "had a trans friend." Nor that he made sure to pat himself on the back for it.
If she was such a good friend to him maybe he should stop lying about what caused her suicide.
- Ehhh, I'm pretty willing to give him some broad license in telling it. Given her note, you can pretty easily imagine some argument with members of her smaller, more irl friends, who would probably delete or have done things in small chats.
  It's like when Chappelle talks about being confronted in the restaurant, I don't expect the guy was actually a 6"5 Texan gay wedding a knotted shirt...

So, random Chapelle Fact: For the past couple of years Dave Chapelle has had a 24/7 police presence on his property. I assume he's hired them off-duty, but they sit in a county sheriff's car near his front gate. I assume someone made a credible threat to him for some reason, but don't know full details.

Timing-wise, the police presence started close to the whole "Dave opposed affordable housing in his neighborhood" story - which was repeated enough times to make it into the popular consciousness, but also pretty much untrue.

"Dave opposed affordable housing in his neighborhood" story - which was repeated enough times to make it into the popular consciousness, but also pretty much untrue.
Sure, as long as you ignore the fact that he did it on video… Twice. But yeah, let’s ignore reality and go with the PR spin from his publicist.
- Wow, what an entitled asshole. Holy shit.
- Yeah well one time he made fun of people I find icky and they meekly said “don’t make fun of us please” so actually Dave is the best comedian to ever have existed and has never done anything wrong. You ever considered that?
  (/s duh but just in case lol)
How much police protection do trans people get after he’s done lining his pockets with the money he makes by inciting hatred against them, I wonder?
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- I'm reasonably local to the area and watched that fiasco play out over the course of several years. I'd wager I have a few more facts than you do.
  I'm not a fan of Chappelle's work in the last 10-12 years, so just throwing that out there.
  The housing might appear to have been affordable to anyone not familiar with the region, but it was a basic bitch suburban sprawl neighborhood that would have been sold at market prices. Oh, and those market prices are already 1.5 to 2 times the local average because it was located in Yellow Springs. As a concession to local sensibilities, the developer offered to donate 1-acre of out of that 30-acre corn field to a local charity connected to one of the town's councilors. That one acre would have been a mix of park land and affordable housing.
  There were a mix of proposals at different times, but many of the "affordable" solutions were clearly untenable. The example I gave was the final form. All were shitty.
  I also remember that this corn field was offered for sale at around 1.5 million shortly after Chapelle purchased his adjoining property, but years before serious talk of development. It was a grift/extortion from the moment he moved there.
  For context, Chappelle's house on 5 acres cost $750,000. That same house would probably have been half of that if it were anywhere else in the region. Affordable housing in that town is the topic of intense discussion, but nothing has looked even remotely as dodgey as that particular proposal.

The new special is hilarious but no one will watch it because of the last one. He addresses it in the first 5 minutes.

Lampshading bigotry by saying "haha i love punching down" doesn't actually make it not bigotry..
Yeah the funniest part of his new special was where he said he would identify as a woman to get into women's prison and make all the women suck his lady dick.
Hilarious.
/s
He's a comedian. He has the right and the freedom to say whatever he wants and people have the right to laugh. Similarly, people have the right to not laugh, and the right to criticize and argue with him. We have the right to point out that a lot of people who are laughing with him aren't doing so ironically. They're laughing because they wholeheartedly agree and find trans people disgusting and worthy of ridicule.

Chappelle is past his peak. He's still funny but it's been a steady decline since his return imo.