yep. He clearly wants the smoke. Best thing to do is if you don't find it funny, just keep it pushing. If you react and get angry he will probably take the piss again. Don't feed the troll.
I'm interested to hear more. I have read that they won't give minors gender affirming healthcare but what other things are there?
think the difference is you can buy your favourite artists music simply to support them but its hard to force yourself to laugh. You either do find something funny or you don't. People will go to their fav music acts simply for nostaligia but comedians is different as they have to get laughs or people won't pay anymore. You can see how some greats of the past aren't really doing much anymore which is just a sign of the times. I agree that most people who like Dave's work probably are older as they come from a less hypersensitive generation where you could be a bit dark with it. So of course you are correct in that comedians typically have their "eras." Eventually he too may die out. That said his story telling and delivery will always be there.
Who are your favourite comedians out of interest?
Fair enough. I saw Burr in London in 2019. I will check some of the others on your list
Doesn't Andrew Schulz make racial jokes?
yep. I always wondered why he gets a pass but then I don't mind too much what he says. Bill Burr makes jokes incorporating race so there is a way to do it in which the community won't come for you.
Why do you think of it as "getting a pass" ? Maybe his audience, including non-white people, just find him funny. It can really be that simple.
True. You get the impression sometimes that it's a faux pas to joke about communities you don't belong
Just finally saw this special. Thought it was very funny. Especially the feminism segment
Apparently there’s a question mark about that last point and what really drove HER to suicide
I think Chappelle himself says he thinks the tweets may have contributed in some way to her tragic passing, not sure anyone was saying they were a direct link?
Is saying that gender is a fact and being transphobic mutually exclusive?
HER suicide, come on now. Besides, it's horseshit. Funny how he doesn't blame his own fans for it, given the amount of transphobic abuse they threw at her. Nah, man, it was the trans community that bullied her to death.
I love buzzwords, good on you lad.
Bill Burr says hello.
Bolded bit I agree with. Chappelle just wasn't funny in this show. A comedian can tell hard truths and provoke but they have to be funny while doing it. This stand up set was a lot more like listening to a drunk Chappelle talk shit at the bar. He's been much, much better. Chappelle kept conflating things that didn't belong together, like Kevin Hart's stupid homophobia is not the new civil rights movement, and Da Baby can go feck himself, and neither of them should be used to bolster any conversation on transgender people, and both of them are cultural detritus.
Of course it's subjective, but I'm saying it as a Chappelle fan. I've found a lot of his stuff to be brilliant. This show was weak. Doesn't mean there weren't a few good jokes in it, but I'd give it a C rating.
All good mate. This might have been the only one I watched without the help of my friend Mary Jane, so that possibly had an effect too!
He stepped down because he didn't have time to prepare and do it correctly. was he being homophobic or making a joke? He made a joke and the community ignored the joke and came after him. The joke about him smashing the dolls house over his sons head, implies he bought his gay son a dolls house in the first place! He even gave the disclaimer before telling the joke so It was clearly a joke but the LGBTQ+ community (only a few of them) decided to take it serious and it was a complete overreaction and achieved nothing. It makes some communities seem humorless
