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.

    • sartalon@lemmy.world
      738·
      10 months ago

      Wow, it usually takes some knowledge about a subject to come to a conclusion like that.

      But you came to that conclusion without any knowledge at all.

      Just like most of these comments about Dave Chappelle’s latest standup.

      Pretty on brand of you to form an ignorant and severely judgemental conclusion based on little to no information at all.

      You sound like an American Republican.

        • jimbo@lemmy.world
          311·
          10 months ago

          This whole thread is mostly about beating a Chappell-shaped straw man.

            • SCB@lemmy.world
              15·
              10 months ago

              Have you watched the show or are you arguing here about what you’ve decided the show is about?

              Because if it’s the latter then yes, it’s a straw man. It’s basically a textbook straw man.

        • sartalon@lemmy.world
          530·
          10 months ago

          I’ll take comments that show the individual has no idea what they are talking about, for $500, Alex.

        • sartalon@lemmy.world
          531·
          10 months ago

          You can’t even make a real argument, and just use sarcasm and personal attacks.

          Be angry at me all you want.

          But next time you see such an obviously baiting headline, like this “article”… ask yourself if it’s a real article or just clickbait that wants to trick you into scrolling through 40 ads to read something that doesn’t expand on the headline AT ALL.

          And then wonder if there is a lot of “news” floating out there meant to make you angry just so you drive traffic to the source.

          If you question this kind of nonsense even once, moving forward, then these last 10 minutes was well worth the effort.