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Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 04:25 PM Jun 2022

Just when we didn't think Dave Chappelle could sink any lower, this new audio leaked and... ew

Dave Chappelle is out of new material.

Newly posted audio from the Netflix is a Joke Festival at the Hollywood Bowl in late April finds Chappelle clinging to the same tired, queerphobic comedy that has kept him recently relevant.

Chappelle blasted Lil Nas X as a “promiscuous f*g,” called Lia Thomas a man, and compared transness to him “identifying as Chinese” before putting on a heavy stereotypical East Asian accent.

The section of his stand-up focused on Lil Nas X was based around the statement, “I don’t like Lil Nas X. It’s not because he’s gay; it’s because he’s slutty.”




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For those who couldn't ever seem to understand the transphobic nature of his comments/jokes, how do you now view him, a heterosexual calling a gay man "a fag"?
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Just when we didn't think Dave Chappelle could sink any lower, this new audio leaked and... ew (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jun 2022 OP
Transphobe Tree-Hugger Jun 2022 #1
He's an LGBTQ+ hater and he's making it known. brush Jun 2022 #2
He says in the recording here that he's a conservative man Hugh_Lebowski Jun 2022 #3
Sadly he probably won't lose a career vercetti2021 Jun 2022 #7
Hasn't he always made that known? AngryOldDem Jun 2022 #14
Chapelle used to be a genuinely funny comedian... brush Jun 2022 #19
Ricky Gervais says worst... HipChick Jun 2022 #4
Fuck him too vercetti2021 Jun 2022 #6
Gervais isn't as popular AZSkiffyGeek Jun 2022 #8
Uh-huh. What about.... Behind the Aegis Jun 2022 #11
Gervais got his in at least one thread a few weeks ago IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #13
This thread is about Dave Chappelle. yardwork Jun 2022 #16
That's funny I could say Dave Chappelle is a good comedian vercetti2021 Jun 2022 #5
Comedians have only one joke about trans people. Oneironaut Jun 2022 #9
And... I'm out. Initech Jun 2022 #10
He is an awful, vile, cruel, evil person IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #12
+1 AngryOldDem Jun 2022 #15
Yes. He should be ashamed of himself. Ugly stuff. nt Roisin Ni Fiachra Jun 2022 #17
In all honesty, I think he lost his shame many years ago IngridsLittleAngel Jun 2022 #20
oh zafarkhan Jun 2022 #18
welcome to DU gopiscrap Jul 2022 #21

brush

(53,467 posts)
2. He's an LGBTQ+ hater and he's making it known.
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 04:36 PM
Jun 2022

He's committing career suicide and that's ok with me, a former fan.

What has gotten into him? Guess his agent, family and friends either can't talk to him anymore or they're all yes men/women who just kiss the ass of the man who they depend on for money.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. He says in the recording here that he's a conservative man
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 05:01 PM
Jun 2022

Pretty much explains it all

Unless it was a joke, which I'd say is possible, if you listen to the whole recording in the OP there.

Doubt it, but possible.

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
7. Sadly he probably won't lose a career
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 05:38 PM
Jun 2022

Still a shit ton of racist transphobic pieces of shit that will adore this man for his really bad fucking comedy now

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
14. Hasn't he always made that known?
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 07:59 AM
Jun 2022

I have no use for him. Never have. He’s just a self-important dick.

brush

(53,467 posts)
19. Chapelle used to be a genuinely funny comedian...
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 10:45 AM
Jun 2022

before the days of the "Chapelle Show" even...and that show was groundbreaking in ways and generated other stars...Charlie Murphy for instance.

Before that show I saw him at the "Apollo Theater" in Harlem when he was still a skinny a 20-something on a bill with several other comedians...Paul Mooney, Jennifer Lewis and others and he was hilarious and none of his material was anywhere near the negative crap towards the LGBTQ+ community he's spewing now.

After he left the TV show because of his objection that they kept wanting him to do bits wearing dresses (which seemed principled as he said he felt the bits emasculated Black men) show he went on a hiatus to Africa and didn't perform for some years.

He go a big money deal at some poing and begin performing again and this descent into homophobia began in the last few years.

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
6. Fuck him too
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 05:36 PM
Jun 2022

He doesn't get a pass just because he's white he's a piece of shit just like Chappelle. I guess Chappelle and Gervais are trying to out racist each other

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
13. Gervais got his in at least one thread a few weeks ago
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:05 AM
Jun 2022

Honestly, he got blasted worse here on DU than Chappelle has been.

yardwork

(61,408 posts)
16. This thread is about Dave Chappelle.
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 08:12 AM
Jun 2022

You just used a known technique to disrupt conversations about racism, by the way. This exact technique came up in a workshop I just attended. The specific example was a conversation about race, in which one person attempted to interrupt the conversation by bringing up the existence of homophobia.

When the Republicans do it we call it "both siderism."

Feel free to start additional threads about other homophobic entertainers. I'll kick and rec your thread.

vercetti2021

(10,150 posts)
5. That's funny I could say Dave Chappelle is a good comedian
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 05:35 PM
Jun 2022

But that's the joke he isn't. This motherfucker is such an irrelevant piece of shit at this point. I don't know what happened to him or if his comedy just became so fucking stale that he needed to appeal to the nut job crowd but he is equivalent of an old man screaming at a cloud now. Him and that fucking prick Ricky Gervais.

Like congratulations now your comedy is just borderline being an asshole to other people. See and we wonder why right-wing comedians never go anywhere because racism as comedy is not funny let alone it's really stupid and cringy.

But hey it's his fucking dumbass TERF wants to be an edgelord then my my be all that.

Oneironaut

(5,461 posts)
9. Comedians have only one joke about trans people.
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 06:13 PM
Jun 2022

Trans people exist, therefore, I must identify as a..

Apache Attack Helicopter
Lamp
Kitchen Appliance
Chimp (Ricky Gervais )
Tesla Model-3
A dragon
… and so on.

/s

Initech

(99,909 posts)
10. And... I'm out.
Wed Jun 22, 2022, 06:16 PM
Jun 2022

I used to love Dave when Chappelle's Show was a thing, but he's definitely been brainwashed by Fox.

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
12. He is an awful, vile, cruel, evil person
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 01:04 AM
Jun 2022

The only question is whether he always has been, or he has become one in recent years.

I hope people are having their eyes opened and seeing this was never about "comedy" with Chappelle, it's just cruelty. It was last fall, when he was misgendering his "friend" Daphne Dorman, and spewing absolutely dehumanizing shit in our direction. He got a pass because, well, he's a comedian (allegedly). And he's a "good guy" because he bashed Drumpf.

...Nevermind that he bashed Drumpf once he found out how much he hates black people. Prior to that? He was all for Drumpf, because he thought his "edgy, outspoken, anti-PC" shit would open the door to Chappelle being allowed to say whatever he wanted. Another one of those "He'll be good for my career" types - until he found out Drumpf hates people like him too.

So, this one funny (allegedly) asshole has nothing left but more hate. Misgendering Lia Thomas (shocked he didn't deadname her too.) A homophobic slur for Lil Nas X. And then doubling down on the transphobic bigotry by managing to insult both trans people and the Chinese with one "joke."

His act is beyond old. Black jokes are never to be allowed under circumstances. All the while, it's okay to pick on whites, Jews, Asians, gays, trans... You know who else is real good at dishing it out but not taking it? Republicans. Wait.. You admitted you are one. I'm shocked... shocked you finally admitted it.

Just go away, Chappelle. Don't go be bad. Don't go away sad. Don't go away mad. Just go away...

 

IngridsLittleAngel

(1,962 posts)
20. In all honesty, I think he lost his shame many years ago
Thu Jun 23, 2022, 06:00 PM
Jun 2022

I'm not a huge expert on Chappelle and his career, and only casually watched Chappelle Show in the early 2000's. I think the Dave Chappelle of that time might've still been able to feel shame and thinking "I went too far".

He clearly lost it around the time he walked away from his show and went into hiding. He changed for the worse, no question. It's almost as if he spent his time in hiding watching Fux or listening to Hannity or something. Because the person we see now is just unbelievably cruel. He's got to be well on his way to a Bigoted Bingo Blackout - trans people, gays, Jews, Asians, women.. He wants to go scorched Earth on everyone who isn't black, cishet and male.

And the sickest part is outside of his usual jokes about whites, all of his "humor" sounds identical to Fux Noise "commentary" at this stage. Racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic... Ugly stuff, indeed.

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