• shapis@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Young Dave Chappelle was the greatest comedian of all time and I’ll die on this hill.

    He still has some sparks of brilliance here and there. But fuck. Yeah. The meme is accurate.

      • DaleGribble88@programming.dev
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        2 hours ago

        Ooh! I can answer this! He made a joke about someone in his life that was trans. It hit the media that he was doing jokes about trans people. So he tried to explain how he wasn’t transphobic by telling a bunch of actual transphobic jokes, which was certainly a choice that was made. That turned a lot of people off, so he followed the laughs.

        The first “new” Chappelle special is wonderful! No more offensive to any one group than any other. His follow up was mostly good, but some cringing at some bad takes. Clips thereafter are pretty… Well, you see what thread we are in. 🙃