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.

  • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure how many of you watched this based on the comments here

    But his jokes really were not transphobic in this special at all

    Watch the thing with context and see

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But as it was happening… I was very disappointed. Because I wanted to meet Jim Carrey, and I had to pretend this n*gga was Andy Kaufman… all afternoon. It was clearly Jim Carrey. I could look at him and I could see he was Jim Carrey.

      Anyway, I say all that to say… that’s how trans people make me feel.

      That’s extremely transphobic and not even an attempt at being funny.

      Edit:

      “Give me your fruit cocktail, bitch, before I knock your motherf*cking teeth out. I’m a girl, just like you, bitch. Come here and suck this girl’s dick I got. Don’t make me explain myself. I’m a girl”

      Also very transphobic, and there’s more.

      Here’s the complete transcript of his new program.

      https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/dave-chappelle-the-dreamer-transcript/

      • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
        01·
        1 year ago

        When you pull out specific lines without the entire context of the joke, you can make literally anything sound bad.