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.
I’m shocked that Dave Chappelle not only went down this route but has doubled down, especially since he walked from his own show nineteen years ago due in part to the negative racial stereotypes being pushed by the show’s execs and the lack of creative control Comedy Central gave him.
And I’m more shocked that Netflix thought it was wise to release another special filled with transphobic drivel, especially since the last one generated so much negative press for them.
If you actually watch it he’s not transphobic in it at all
Idk what this article is talking about
The pasted quotations in another thread seem to suggest otherwise.
You’re shocked that he did a thing that was incredibly successful and then doubles down on that success? Your being shocked feeds into that success.
do you have stats on these netflix shows? Are they at all successful?
This is of his previous Netflix special: https://tvline.com/ratings/tv-ratings-dave-chappelle-the-closer-nielsen-top-10-streaming-1234739959/
Also, I don’t think Netflix would buy another show with almost identical premise if it didn’t piss money.
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He’s a bought-and-paid-for sellout. Always was. He just never had anyone show him where the money was.