He made fun of trans people and trans people pushed back.
If you support trans people in Saudi Arabia the government throws you in jail.
This guy is a clown and not the funny kind. He likes to pretend he’s still one of the little people from the streets, all he cares about is money.
What happened to this guy? Like seriously. He went away and then came with this fucking terminal brainrot and he just can’t stop saying stupid shit
You can’t make observational comedy about being a young and hungry comedian/writer when you’ve spent the last decade being wealthy and out-of-touch.
If he was still clever, he probably could’ve threaded the transphobia needle and either figured a way to make it right or made it so funny that enough people would enjoy it regardless. But now he’s cranky and spoiled by success so he’s just going to get angry, which is even less funny.
he had a chance to switch material towards kind of humor George Carlin started doing later in his career - discussing serious subject matter in somewhat jovial manner with continuous punching up. Instead he chose the worst kind of punching down and when you’re a rich guy mocking the poor and struggling - yeah, that’s just bad.
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Dude is a rich fuck who still bitches that other even richer fucks “stole” his money. And my poor ass is supposed to relate. He has been rich for most of his life but likes to pretend he’sa regular guy. He lives on another planet surrounded by bubbles of assistants and staff that kiss his ass
but he can’t say offensive things for shits and giggles. so it is mathematically relatable.
“It’s easier to talk here than it is in America,”
Yeah, as long as you don’t say anything about the imprisonments and murders without fair trial, religious intolerance, or make fun of the kings Mu’umu’u.
The irony of a black man who has felt the impairment of his own freedoms so clearly and so often, now taking coins to make joke about the same to those who would themselves be his enslavers in a slightly different circumstance. Look at who does all the shittiest jobs in Saudi Arabia.
Who the F does a “Comedy Festival” in Saudi Arabia, of all places? What’s next? North Korea? The USA?
Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”
Based and true. Nobody read the article.
Yes but if you say something wrong in saudi arabia, you get the fucking death penalty.
Dear Dave Chepple, Billy Burka, and the rest of hypocrite moralless indignified sellouts:
You have looted blood money from the taxes of oppressed unrepresented beheaded people in a dictatorship. The executioner asked you to dance to distract the world and cover up the blood of slaughtered protestors and humanright activists for him while he beheads them. And you gladly obliged.
So just answer my questions with your freedom of speech Dave.
You know you were not paid by the “6000” attendees. The tickets cost from $13 to $80 for the whole week with each day featuring more than 1 comic.
So how did you alone get paid $1.6millions Dave? What’s the name of this organizing company? Where did they get this money from which they gave to dance Dave? Why is this Muslim Arabic country overpaying international celebeities to perform there? Not humanright washing… no… no.
What happened to the Saudi citizens who complained about their wealth in billions of dollars going to overpaid LIV athletes, boxing athletes, soccer, esports kids, Hiphop concerts, and now you Dave?
Bill Burr is the only one that really got to me. I loved that guy. But I just can’t see him the same way anymore
He’s dead to me now.
I’ve watched his ignorance and complete separation from humanity occur in lock-step with his increasing privilege and earnings.
Same for me. He seemed so… Honest. He walked that line between left and right, not siding. It made me think, “this is a genuine guy”. Fuck me, I guess. Truly affected me more than most things lately. I realise that makes me sound cold, given recent events, but it did. Again, fuck me, I guess.
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He must have been really hurting for money.
Uncle Dave
“Right now in America, they say that if you talk about Charlie Kirk, that you’ll get canceled,” Chappelle told an audience of 6,000, according to The New York Times. “I don’t know if that’s true, but I’m gonna find out.” He then added, “It’s easier to talk here than it is in America.”
I love your comedy Dave, but the sell-out you’ve become invalidates your position as a truth-teller right when America needs you the most. You built your career on raw talent and hard work without bowing to your masters at Comedy Central, and you don’t need to do this either. If you ever manage to un-sew your lips from the royal prince’s gold-shitting anus, please come back to us.
That’s not what free speech is. The government has never attacked this Chapelle for his speech.
His bigoted shit just isn’t funny to GenZ and they don’t mind telling him.
It’s our right to Freedom of Association he has an issue with.
I hear that shit so often. “You can’t even say anything anymore.”
Yes you can. You can say whatever, you just don’t like it when people call you out for that shit you have to say.
Conservative voices are being silenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA
The state of comedy is so sad.
I used to love chapel. Now not so much. He drank the Joe Rogan kool-aid
He also sent strong antivax messages to black Americans. I liked his comedy but he got addicted to money and is a disappointing human.
I don’t understand how for the last ten years this guy has been allowed to just associate with other comics like he’s not a fucking pariah.
Because comics are whores
We assume the personas we see on the screen are a representation of the people they really are. If we really saw the truth behind our media we would feel hollow and sad and empty and realize how little substance there actually is in the world, so on some level we choose to believe what we already know to be untrue, because we prefer it this way.
“Everybody out there that’s watching, everybody that’s watching this world? This world is bullshit. You shouldn’t model your life about what you think that we think is cool and what we’re wearing and what we’re saying and everything.” - Fiona Apple.
You can’t kayfabe away the actual association. They chose to appear on screen with the guy. That’s not in-character, that is a professional decision.
Or are you saying, “Chappelle is just pretending to be a heel, actually he hates autocrats and loves trans people?”
I’m saying that backstage, they are different people from the ones we think, both good and bad, and who those people are I cannot say, I just know from limited exposure to celebrity that reality as we think we see it is manufactured.
A lot of people you could never imagine being in the same room together will have dinner together or hang out and chill and it’s absolutely mind-blowing the first time you see it and realize what’s going on.
I’m not saying the performances of people like Chappelle aren’t sometimes vile and dangerous, it’s still a professional decision to “be that person” on stage, oftentimes it’s a well-planned professional decision involving agents, long-term plotlines and levels of social manipulation that we like to think we won’t fall for.
My issue (at the moment) isn’t with Chappelle but rather with those who enable, endorse, and platform him. Those who are happier drawing a paycheque than acting with integrity. It does not matter whether the bad things he does are done in character. It does not matter if the people who appear on-screen with him despise him off-screen.
