The Guardian gave it 2 stars and said ” it triples down on the phobia”. When it upsets the sanctimonious scolds this much you know its going to be great.
Chortle likewise gave it 2 stars. However, on Rotten Tomatoes it currently has 96% audience approval after hundreds of reviews from the proles. I dare say it’s as if these mainstream publications don’t speak for the people
His show upset the Grauniad? I take that as a good sign.
John Riordan
2 years ago
Didn’t know Dave Chappelle had done another standup that’s on Netflix, I will watch it ASAP.
I used to be very into stand up comedy in the 1990s/2000s, but gave up as it became yet another victim of the culture wars, and we ended up with people on stage who are about as funny as toothache and whose purpose is nothing more than policing cultural boundaries and inviting the audience to approve of liberal-left pieties through the mechanism of laughter on cue.
Dave Chappelle, conversely, was an exception to this miserable descent into dystopian lunacy, and stayed funny, clever and brave. And it is worth remarking upon the fact that nowadays you do have to be brave to use your freedom of speech fully. That is not something the rest of us should be proud of.
Comedy is in rude health at the moment. In the US. Tim Dillon is the greatest natural talent I’ve heard since… Bill Hicks?
US comics have gone feral since the culture war cranked up. They have extracted so much good stuff from it. There’s almost too much out there. It’s a golden age.
UK comedy is dead. I could type for a long time about this but I won’t. It has simply rotted away and I want none of it in my life.
Sharon Overy
2 years ago
Comedians tell jokes in that space for the same reason that writers write books and singers sing songs — because different states, different ways of looking at the world outside the norm can be expressed in them. Yes, this is a basic, banal observation. But robots cannot grasp it.
Oh, the robots get it, all right. They just can’t stand it. It’s why all cultural products are targeted for infiltration and control, or cancellation – from TV, to film, to video games, comics, comedy, music… etc.
Peter Morgan
2 years ago
Glad to see a prominent American speak up again on the trans issue. It would have been much more effective if he talked about sex not changing instead of gender but nevertheless his call for compromise and mutual respect rather than blind subservience to someone else’s opinion of what is right is totally refreshing.
He used the word gender but he clearly meant sex. While not up on the nuanced word choice, Chappelle is 10x more fluent on this topic than Starmer, and Lammy, whose business it is to know.
Adrian Maxwell
2 years ago
Dave Chappelle entered this arena with his routine on the ridiculous Jussie Smollet affair (You Tube). With his sense of timing, irony and of the absurd, he had the (mixed) audience with him from the very start. The same absurdity runs through all contemporary wokeism, for all to see and know. It just needs giants like Chapelle and Gervais to slowly lead us out of this nonsense.
The Guardian gave it 2 stars and said ” it triples down on the phobia”. When it upsets the sanctimonious scolds this much you know its going to be great.
Chortle likewise gave it 2 stars. However, on Rotten Tomatoes it currently has 96% audience approval after hundreds of reviews from the proles. I dare say it’s as if these mainstream publications don’t speak for the people
Chortle is a sham of a website and anybody involved with it should be ashamed.
But.. but… they SAY they do.
Love that he is accused of white supremacy.
His show upset the Grauniad? I take that as a good sign.
Didn’t know Dave Chappelle had done another standup that’s on Netflix, I will watch it ASAP.
I used to be very into stand up comedy in the 1990s/2000s, but gave up as it became yet another victim of the culture wars, and we ended up with people on stage who are about as funny as toothache and whose purpose is nothing more than policing cultural boundaries and inviting the audience to approve of liberal-left pieties through the mechanism of laughter on cue.
Dave Chappelle, conversely, was an exception to this miserable descent into dystopian lunacy, and stayed funny, clever and brave. And it is worth remarking upon the fact that nowadays you do have to be brave to use your freedom of speech fully. That is not something the rest of us should be proud of.
Comedy is in rude health at the moment. In the US. Tim Dillon is the greatest natural talent I’ve heard since… Bill Hicks?
US comics have gone feral since the culture war cranked up. They have extracted so much good stuff from it. There’s almost too much out there. It’s a golden age.
UK comedy is dead. I could type for a long time about this but I won’t. It has simply rotted away and I want none of it in my life.
Oh, the robots get it, all right. They just can’t stand it. It’s why all cultural products are targeted for infiltration and control, or cancellation – from TV, to film, to video games, comics, comedy, music… etc.
Glad to see a prominent American speak up again on the trans issue. It would have been much more effective if he talked about sex not changing instead of gender but nevertheless his call for compromise and mutual respect rather than blind subservience to someone else’s opinion of what is right is totally refreshing.
He used the word gender but he clearly meant sex. While not up on the nuanced word choice, Chappelle is 10x more fluent on this topic than Starmer, and Lammy, whose business it is to know.
Dave Chappelle entered this arena with his routine on the ridiculous Jussie Smollet affair (You Tube). With his sense of timing, irony and of the absurd, he had the (mixed) audience with him from the very start. The same absurdity runs through all contemporary wokeism, for all to see and know. It just needs giants like Chapelle and Gervais to slowly lead us out of this nonsense.
Never heard of it, but will look it up now.
There are three Chappelle specials on Netflix, and they are all worth watching.
Your weekend just got a whole lot better! Enjoy!
I will also tune in!
Kudos to the Vice Chancellor of Sussex University for doing his job.