Dave Chappelle‘s new Netflix particular is extra of the identical when it comes to focusing on transgender folks — however he is increasing his attain on marginalized folks, roping in disabled of us too.
In his new present, “The Dreamer,” DC comes out swinging proper out the gate to joke about trans folks once more … this time telling an elaborate story about assembly Jim Carrey on the set of “Man on the Moon” and explaining how that reminded him of trans folks right this moment.
You may have to observe the particular to see how he connects the dots — however mainly, he sees parallels within the very-committed pretending Jim did in that film and the trans neighborhood.
That was the primary massive joke Dave informed, and whereas he promised to cease speaking about trans of us proper after … he then proceeded to make much more cracks about them all through the remainder of “The Dreamer.” He joked about writing a play a couple of trans lady whose pronoun was “n****” and who dies of loneliness as a result of white liberals do not know find out how to speak to her.
He then went on to say that if he ever bought incarcerated, he’d hope it would be in California — the place he might determine as a girl and be imprisoned with females … the place he then mentioned he’d make different inmates “suck this girl dick I got,” with out having to elucidate himself.
That was the gist of his trans jokes … however he additionally jabbed at folks with disabilities — together with a crack at ex-Congressman Madison Cawthorn — and mentioned he’d begin making enjoyable of them as a result of “they’re not as organized as the gays” and he loves “punching down.”
There was much more materials, in fact … together with his ideas on the entire Will Smith/Chris Rock Oscars slap — however all of that felt fairly tame in comparison with these things.
Dave even name-dropped Lil Nas X towards the top of his hour-long set — saying LNX confronted him for not being in a music video of his … to which Dave ended up pondering one thing to the impact of … out of all the children at school who had a dream, Lil Nas X needed to be the gayest homosexual on this planet, slide a stripper pole in hell and suck the satan’s d***.
Certainly, it sounds fairly inflammatory — but it surely appears Dave was juxtaposing Nas X’s “dream” together with his personal … which is kinda the working theme of this particular, you could make it massive.
Whereas the anti-trans jokes do sound dangerous, they do not seem like kicking up the identical firestorm his 2021 particular did 2 years in the past … after they had been nearly the whole focus. It will be attention-grabbing to see what the fallout is right here, if any, as soon as folks watch it for themselves.
One factor Chappelle did NOT tackle on this particular is one thing he did in actual life not that way back … particularly, the Israel-Hamas warfare. Seems like this was filmed nicely earlier than all that.
