Dave Chappelle Mentions Trans People One Time and Hoboy, the Leftwing Groomer Media Just Can't Deal
Plus: Ricky Gervais and Nate Bergatze

Dave Chappelle just debuted a new comedy special on Netflix.

here's Chappelle's only brief mention of trans people, before announcing he would not continue making jokes about trans people, because they whine too much about it.

He said he'd move on to making fun of handicapped people, who have a less zealous lobby.

This brief mention set the Groomer Media off into paroxysms of outrage. Via John Sexton, here are some of leftwing Groomer Media outlets losing it.

Variety:

Maybe it's time for Dave Chappelle to try some new material.

The comedian's newest special, "The Dreamer," debuted on Netflix on Dec. 31, and largely focuses on his early years in entertainment and how he manifested his success. But he floods the first 12 minutes of the set revisiting his favorite target in recent years: Transgender people.

Rolling Stone:

It's unfortunate that Chappelle's The Dreamer is, like some of his prior Netflix specials, obsessively fixated on the trans community, because it's not an area he particularly excels at, resorting to puerile premises and punchlines. There are, of course, ways to artfully tell a trans joke -- take Michelle Wolf's recent Netflix specialIt's Great to Be Here -- but Chappelle is apparently incapable of having most of his bits extend beyond mocking genitalia or pronouns. It's not just tired but uninspired...

Do you, like me, immediately assume that the "trans joke" Rolling Stone approves of is actually complimentary to trans people? Well, I'm not sure what joke they mean, but in this one, Michelle Wolf says she "hates gay men because they're better at being women than I am."

Yeah, so, that's Rolling Stone's idea of a well-crafted joke about trans men: one that flatters them as being better women than women.

I didn't see the Chappelle show, but I did watch Ricky Gervais anti-woke comedy special "Armageddon." It's on Netflix, so you'll have to watch it at your transgender niece's.

It was pretty good. I kind of don't like Ricky Gervais because my conservative temperament disapproves of his basic schtick: Trying to upset people, being "subversive." Even when the targets he's choosing are ones I approve of, I just don't like the whole "I'm going to deliberately annoy you now, aren't I a little stinker?" thing.

(I'm not as fond of trolls as some people on the right are for the same reason.)

Despite my not liking the type of comedy he does, he's funny enough that I laugh at most of his stuff anyway. Even if you don't like the West Coast Offense, you can appreciate that Joe Montana was really good at running it.

Here's a bit I didn't actually love, but some of you might enjoy: He brags about deliberately wasting water and energy just to upset Greta Thunberg.

This part is great: He jokes about the so-called "anti-fascists" declaring they're not fascists. He thinks that might indicate someone who actually is a fascist. He also makes a great joke about how the term "fascist" has been redefined into meaninglessness.

In this last joke Ricky Gervais -- don't watch this one at work -- he makes a point about cultural appropriation.

He trolled the left some more:

Now, the comedian I really want to recommend to you is Nate Bargatze. That guy who did the George Washington sketch on SNL, the first funny skit they've done in ten years.

Conservatives should embrace this guy. He works totally clean and is very, very funny. He complains about his parents having become Christian just as he was born, which resulted in him having "less fun than Jesus" when he was growing up.

He was raised a little strict, and became a bit of a moral scold, even to his own parents.

His act is mostly him portraying himself as The Dumb Guy who is always one step behind everyone and very frustrated about that. His frustration over not being able to find the main light switch in a hotel room is funny, and I've been there too.

A lot of comedians do the Dumb Guy act, but signal to you that they're really smart and the dumb-guy thing is a put-on. (Norm MacDonald, for example.) Bargatze commits to being the Dumb Guy without ever hinting that he's smarter than he's playing. And I really like how he shows actual frustration and even anger at always being the Dumb Guy.

He does no manly things around the house and has to bluff his way through interactions with construction guys coming to his home, who wrongly assume that
he's the man of the house.

This bit about having to dig a hole is great.

He complains about getting older -- again, I'm with him there -- and this bit about how every conversation with doctors turns very serious and very dark after you turn 40 is great.

He has a bunch of special, but those are from Hello, World, which is on Amazon Prime and is his latest show. It's from January 2023. He has definitely evolved and refined his act from the earlier shows I've seen.

Definitely, before you cancel Amazon Prime -- which is now demanding $2.99 per month on top of the $120 you're already paying for it, if you want to continue watching it without commercials -- watch Hello, World. Best show I've seen in a while.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

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