• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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      9 hours ago

      When Richard Pryor came back from Africa he said there were so many different types of people there and vowed never to use the n-word ever again.

      When Dave Chappele came back from africa he said there were a lot of broke n***ers over there and vowed never to turn down a dollar ever again.

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      10 hours ago

      He was well before this. When he was in his local town hall complaining that they were making affordable housing near him and letting “the poors” get too close.

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        I didn’t hate him when he made trans jokes, i just don’t find them funny and everyone should be allowed to not be funny. But i found it truly disgusting when he pulled elon musk on stage just to show off his wealthy friend. What a disgusting human being.

  • Sazruk@lemmy.wtf
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    Honestly I stopped watching it halfway through when I realized it was just gonna be a jerk fest. Some of it was funny but the whole thing felt like comedy for controversy’s sake rather than controversy for comedy’s sake. It just felt… forced in a way that I didn’t really vibe with. I think his circular style is kinda trite at this point too, the older he gets the more rambly it all feels.

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    15 hours ago

    And made a shit ton of money bringing laughter to slavers while we work ourselves to death and suffer from having a conscience. We really do need to get together and figure out how to actually start changing things without self imploding. Evil is very much winning.

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      10 hours ago

      Freeer over the by the way, where they, checks notes, literally took his script and said what he could and couldn’t say.

      Fuck that bigoted hypocrite

      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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        10 hours ago

        Gunna hard disagree with you homie. If Dave has any artistic dignity he would not have performed if they preemptively censored him.

        So either he is a shill, or he’s a shitty person and a shill.

        Don’t know if there is a good way out for the piece of shit.

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          6 hours ago

          Oh. I guess I needed the /s on the first part or there’s a misunderstanding, because we do agree

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    24 hours ago

    It’s a shame Dave Chappelle died immediately after Chappelle’s Show ended. He sure was a funny guy when he was still alive!

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      That’s my takeaway too. I did listen to his stand up and while i didn’t think it was horrible, i had to remind myself that it’s the guy from the chappelle show, otherwise i wouldn’t have listened to it. Also really interesting how Neal Brennan is still really funny and i like his stand up a lot. Maybe it is just a Seinfeld situation

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    It boggles my mind that this is the same guy who walked away from a multi-year, multimillion dollar TV deal with Comedy Central because he saw a white dude laughing a little too hard at his jokes about race. The fact that he could have that moment of reflection, but not extend it to other marginalized groups, just shows the complete lack of empathy he has in his soul.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      The whole Comedy Central thing never sat well with me. Here’s my poor ass listening to this rich mother fucker who made it big, complain about how other rich fuckers “took his money”. It was never relatable, and it just felt like rich people feuding to me. That’s when I started to see Dave as a wealthy man first and above all. My instinct proved true when he just got worse and worse and became less and less human.

      He can visits the hood and pretend he’s still from the streets all he wants, even though he never was. But I ain’t buying it. He likely gets back in his truck and uses the sanitizer and complains about the little people like diddy. He’s a fake and has no idea how real people live and think. He only hangs out with billionaires.

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    I started watching his latest Netfux special and he just wasn’t funny to me at all. Bragging about all his wealth, buying a white hippy town, defending his Saudi Arabia sellout because “haha I’m a rich n*gga”, and then a joke about a falcon killing a trans and “his dick popped out”, but it turns out killing a trans person only being a misdemeanour in SA. Har har. Just predicable, and felt like a real grift. Turned it off and watched some show with Fran Lebowitz instead - that one was at least pretty funny, if not also a grift.

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      I’m sure the proud boys or kkk would love some of the racist jokes I’ve heard at work.

      I wonder how Chapel would appreciate them.

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      19 hours ago

      I think that’s the joke. Honestly I feel like this whole thread is a huge woosh… Did everyone miss the joke?

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        10 hours ago

        The joke is “haha! see? I’m not funny! I’m just a soulless piece of shit grifter”?