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.

  • SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    195·
    10 months ago

    Dave Chapelle makes transphobic jokes and says he loves punching down

    Trans person reacts to that

    You: “them transgenders make everything about themselves”

    Alternatively, you could have just also said: “Why don’t you let us joke about you being disgusting freaks in peace?”, but I doubt you have the self-awareness.

    • utubas@lemmy.world
      616·
      10 months ago

      You can be a chapelle fan or you can be a trans ally. You cant be both (gaslighting not accepted).

      This is what I meant, if you like Dave Chapelle is because you are transphobic evil, no inbetween, everything is black or white.

      But here we are, once again. Suddenly I find transgender people “disgusting freaks”.

      • phillaholic@lemm.ee
        21·
        10 months ago

        You’re either transphobic or ok with going along with someone who’s transphobic. They don’t care the difference. Or you think he’s not transphobic, and I’d say you’re naive. He’s made it very clear he’s not poking fun or exaggerating anything. He doesn’t acknowledge trans women as women. These are statements not bits. Mind boggling all the more that his grandparents would have been subject to the same kind of hatred based on their race being inferior to whites in many of the same ways Trans people are being discriminated today.