It’s the comedian’s first special for the streamer since 2021’s highly controversial ‘The Closer’

Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

    • sunbytes@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Punching down is the problem.

      Also the whole “my brother is an asshole but if you call him that I’ll punch you” thing.

      If he was making jokes about a community he was involved with at all, great. If it was a trans comedian making these jokes, (probably) great.

      But this is just another old out-of-touch rich guy making fun about people who are already having a shitty time (on average).

      Also, notice how anyone has yet to actually forbid him from doing it. He’s not being “cancelled/consequenced”.

      A lot of people just find it extremely distasteful. (It hasn’t slowed him down in the slightest.)

      • cannibalkitteh@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        If it was a trans comedian making these jokes, (probably) great.

        Honestly, I’d be disappointed even more in a trans comedian. If, after transitioning, they went with such uninspired jokes when there’s a wealth of more humorous things to joke about in transition, I’d question their sense of humor.

    • Lutra@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      in the quiet, the real quiet of it all, after the yelling and flaming on the internet, we have two types of thought. One that thinks that people have both the ability and the freedom to say what they think, out loud, and even to entire groups of people. And we have a group of people that thinks we are all safer and happier if we don’t let them. That group also thinks we have to agree (with them), they say one word a lot, ‘tolerance’ but curiously they mean that in one direction: the direction they identify with. In the same way, they falsely equate :“disagreeing with me” to “hating me”.