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.
Did he used to be funny?
Karl and Stephen were funny. Ricky was always kind of insufferable.
Case in point: the number of times Karl’s musings turned out to be true, and Ricky had berated him for those musings. Such as Karl positing “most ants don’t do much,” turns out that is true.
I was fine with his cringe when basically the joke was on him. He seems to have lost the thread of his humor.