Dave Chappelle has lost his edge, imo. He spends just as much time complaining about not being able to make jokes in his newer specials like The Closer as he does actually making jokes.
#NetflixWalkout is a reaction to an inability to empathize with other people's struggles.
#NetflixWalkout is a reaction to an inability to empathize with other people's struggles.
One of the last good comedians of the shock-humor oldguard has creatively stagnated and is blaming society for their changing tastes and not his own inability to improve. Like most other shock comedians from his time, the result is a backslide into complaint-based "vent comedy."
It's a shame because he was always a head and shoulders over his peers.
What's sadder than the world outgrowing a talented comedian is that comedian blame the world for it.
What's sadder than the world outgrowing a talented comedian is that comedian blame the world for it.
I don't think he's a bad person. I think he's tripling down when he's in the wrong because he's used to being in the right. He's used to the noble fight against censors, focus groups, and parents, not the fools errand of fighting his own audience against legitimate serious issues
He doesn't think any of the things he's saying, he never has.
But what he DOES think is that you should be laughing at him. The cardinal sin of comedy is deciding for your audience what is and isn't funny, and blaming them when jokes don't land, and it's all he does these days.
But what he DOES think is that you should be laughing at him. The cardinal sin of comedy is deciding for your audience what is and isn't funny, and blaming them when jokes don't land, and it's all he does these days.
The rights of minorities are more important than the career of someone who refuses to improve or do any self-reflection to understand why this time the backlash he's getting is different.
Because it is different, and its effecting his career in ways previous backlashes didn't.
Because it is different, and its effecting his career in ways previous backlashes didn't.
Jokes or not, and your feelings on the matter don't really matter, words like his aren't just used to lightly berate minorities, they're used to seriously harm minorities, socially, physically, and politically.
Not being able to navigate around that fact makes you a bad comedian.
Not being able to navigate around that fact makes you a bad comedian.
Lmao not conservatives bringing up Cuties as a "GOTCHA!" when literally everyone on the planet was upset about that and CUTIES WASN'T MADE/FINANCED BY NETFLIX like what point do you actually think you're making here guys
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