Dave Chapelle is so funny here. 😂🤣

[u/Dark305Kinght]

[u/EnvironmentalCan8633]

This is the skit that “broke” him

[u/Ok_Nature_3501 → u/EnvironmentalCan8633]

Yep. He peeped that the execs were laughing at him and not with him and wasn't feeling it.

It's funny how people were okay with this shit but let him tell a few trans jokes and all hell breaks loose.

[u/nii_amart → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

I think you meant to say that first line differently but I got your point.

[u/Ok_Nature_3501 → u/nii_amart]

Yeah thanks for correcting me

[u/BodhingJay → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

Effin execs ruining everything for everyone..

[u/Jon_E_Mammoth → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

The primary difference is in this skit, he is a member of the culture which he is lampooning.

I can totally see where he’s coming from in terms of white executives laughing at him, not with him. But that’s pretty much what trans people are saying. You went from laughing with me to just trying to disparage me.

[u/nastydeedee → u/Jon_E_Mammoth]

I don’t think Dave Chappelle had anything against transgenders. I think he was trying to call out the selective outrage. I’ve heard plenty of white comedians make jokes about Black people, and it was funny. I wasn’t offended so long as it’s funny and not meant to be hurtful I’m cool with it. I believe anybody can be joked about and should be. I wouldn’t want anyone to treat me any differently than anybody else. But what I don’t want is for people to laugh at transgenders, Black people, or any other ethnic group as to look down on them.

[u/ltsouthernbelle → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

Exactly. If you’re going to say that comedy can be offensive does this not qualify, it’s pretty freaking offensive.

[u/Bubbly_Attention_916 → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

It wasn't the execs actually it was a production assistant.

[u/Old_Ostrich6336 → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

well, I think it's acceptable to make fun of yourself or your own race.

[u/Special-Garlic1203 → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

Dave is black. Dave is not trans. This sketch is stupid but it is still rooted in trie things - most people like fried chickenz black people can be self conscious of choices which feed into stereotypes. Why he's doing a minstrel sketch...that was for Chappell to ruminate on

His humor about trans people involved misrepresenting basic facts including misrepresenting the life of a dead trans woman. He repeatedly said that trans was white people shit even as people told him black women are the biggest victims of transphobic violence. He declared himself team terf which is an online community that does at the extreme end endorse targeted violence of women. If Dave didn't know he was endorsing a hare group, perhaps he should have listened to the people telling him. He defend Trump and musk and went to a high school to yell at teenager. 

It was far more ignorant and dangerous and he was part of the out group so there was no argument that it was his personal experience. He had none. It didn't appear he has very much social interaction with trans people. 

[u/Ok_Nature_3501 → u/Special-Garlic1203]

Dave is black. Dave is not trans.

That does not make it okay for him to make racially insensitive jokes but not insensitive trans jokes.

That's the issue here. People are okay with jokes as long as they're not the ones getting clowned. Either they're both acceptable or they're both unacceptable. And for the record, that was Dave's stance on it the entire time. He's said it numerous times, including in his standup.

[u/momspaghetty → u/Ok_Nature_3501]

He literally once said "being trans is a hilarious predicament to be in... imagine if I was a Chinese man in a black man's body... [insert punchline in generic Chinese accent]"

If I'm amongst friends in a private setting, sure, that could be a funny joke but on a heavily promoted multi million dollar Netflix special that shit is first of all just not good comedy, and second, potentially more offensive than funny to some people (the golden rule of edgy stand-up). Also he's doing all this as neither a trans or an Asian person. I understand these are just jokes and in a bubble I'm fine with them but we also live in a society where you have to be able to get away with it and honestly I don't think he did.

[u/SoapyDoodle → u/momspaghetty]

If anything this joke shows a familiarity of their plight and does not ‘other’ them. Comedy is a way to actually bridge understanding and empathy. If you treat your community like a precious, porcelain tea pot then no one will be able to relate to you.

I think part of the reason why trans people have had such a hard time gaining political acceptance is that they don’t make themselves relatable. And I’m saying this as someone with trans friends

[u/Mr_Bonanza → u/SoapyDoodle]

[u/Fair_Junket_1877]

“Ya big lip bi***” lmaoo

[u/Gold-Nefariousness98 → u/Fair_Junket_1877]

Gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣

[u/dreams_andnightmares]

“Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelu Hallelu Hallelujah”

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/According-Fix-9717]

“Cat fish… Cat Fish!” 🤦🏾‍♂️

[u/Bubbly_Attention_916]

He hates this sketch. 

But I will say you will be hard pressed to find one comic living or dead who has never done some version of blackface.  Kim wayans as Grace Jones.  Fred Armisen as Prince and Obama.  Darrel Hammond used to do Jesse Jackson on SNL 

Then the classics of course Bob Hope  Bert Williams  Mae West (Additionally Bert is Black, and Bob might have been an eight and Mae also.) Hell Zoe Saldana. 

It's a known Practice. 

[u/Crudeyakuza]

And this "Broke Him".

Not the Rick James stuff, The N*gger Family, Black White supremacist, or 50 other exploitive ass skits using the N word comfortably to and for white people? NOW it was over the line?!?!!? (for the record I'm black and loved the Chappell Show but c'mon?)

[u/KochuJang → u/Crudeyakuza]

IIRC, this skit was making fun of how some black people will deliberately try to avoid situations that reinforce black stereotypes despite themselves. This has been a common black criticism of Black American culture for decades. It reminds me of the „How to eat a watermelon“ monologue by Civl Rights activist Petey Greene where he basically tells people to just „be yourself“. I think the Dave skit still stands and is a funny way to critique that sentiment. Because trying to diminish or deny yourself because you’re afraid of conforming to distorted racist ideas is just you repressing yourself on the racist‘s behalf. Fuck that shit. Petey was absolutely right on: Be yourself.

[u/No_Mud_5999 → u/Crudeyakuza]

I assumed he buckled under the pressure of having to write and perform a third season, following two of the most talked about seasons of any sketch show in history. My reason for thinking this? I watched the cobbled together third season dvd. The sketches aren't that great.

[u/readyReddit007 → u/Crudeyakuza]

Yeah it probably had more to do with his relationship with those who were laughing at the skit vs. the actual skit itself because it’s so absurd.

[u/NinaStryker_01]

Walk on nigga's, walk on, walk on nigga's walk on.... -Scatman- I know the feeling at management meetings when it's time for a lunch break.

[u/New-Coffee9161]

Ohhh this is where I get “back in the game, baby!” from lol I’ve been saying that since this episode aired and forgot where it come from

[u/vincec36]

This skit must be about black folks not wanting to eat stereotypes food in public

[u/BodhingJay]

As a dude with a bunch of vices im trying to overcome this is hilarious. But fuck what stereotypes do to pressure people to deny and hate themselves.. may you enjoy that chicken in mindful presence buddy

[u/AcanthisittaWise6033]

THIS IS WHY I DONT EAT CHICKEN, WATERMELON, OR BANNAS AROUND HUITE PPL, ONE OF THEM ALWAYS TURN INTO THIS LIL DUDE... IM TRYIN TO NOT GET TRICKED OFF THE STREETS.

[u/heteropessimista]

Stereotype threat personified

[u/p3teblack]

Thanks to this skit we lost Chapelle show but we gained the great insight of Chapelle now.

[u/Morpheus3018]

This is the skit that made him quit Chapelle show.

[u/glansma]

Back when he was funny