I seriously don’t get Chapelle. Even if his jokes were not bigoted.....they are just simple. Like how brain dead do you have to be to find the simplest and easiest jokes funny?

Standup comedy “discourse” constantly reminds me why I don’t like stand-up comedy. For some people, it’s like religion. For me, it’s like being dragged to church

Money. Trans people are making him infamous and helping him get press. He can write jokes about how much trans people hate him that go over even without a punchline. He is weaponizing his troll status for cash. It’s gross, but he couldn’t do it without all the attention.

I never really warmed to Norm, as funny as he could be, for the same reason I think he appeals to people so much. Comedians have always been an adversarial lot, willing to push the envelope and pretend they don’t care about offending other people. But whether you’re talking about old school comedians like Carlin and…

No, they’re not. There is no evidence in this article that anyone tried to silence Chappelle. Only that he faced criticism. This is the sleight of hand you “anti-pc” crusaders always fucking pull. Criticism is not censorship.

Sounds totally credible

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me....unless it’s a blog post on avclub in which case I will make comment on the blog post on avclub while holding back tears of rage that someone would dare to make a blog post on avclub.

NIMBYs a hell of a drug.

It’s more than that. Bill claims gay people are “doubling every generation,” from 1.5 percent in the 1940s to 10+ percent today (suggesting, I don’t know what, that they aren’t really gay, they are just looking for attention or some other reason?). But I suspect that the percentage of gay people are the same across…

Laws have recently been put in place to deny trans people rights.

Transphobic can also mean hating trans people.

no mention of chapelle’s stance on public housing decisions made in the state of ohio? trans issues only, i see, not the generally oppressed. no one wants to talk about the shit we sweep under the rug. also chappelle OPENING for mulaney... man, how sad are these times

Except not really because zero people are preventing them from saying whatever they want onstage. Disagreeing with their words is not the same as preventing those words from being spoken. It’s a meaningless cause.

In other news, Bill Maher ended his recent New Rules segment of Real Time with a mostly dumb, arguably awful take on trans identity in the US.

It’s not even “not being an asshole,” it’s “not being a bigot.”

Sure, if there’s one thing Tim Heidecker’s known for, it’s constantly worrying about people liking what he says or does.

Comparing Pete Davidson to Norm Macdonald in any way, shape or form is madness.

yeah, tim heidecker is really hurting for twitter likes

…just your regular reminder that stand-ups will always band together because “being allowed to say whatever I want on stage” always trumps “ not being an asshole”

Absolutely true and unfathomable. His stand-up, to the extent he does any, is terrible. He doesn’t write his own WU spots - and he’s fucking playing *himself* in those. His only recurring character’s only trait is that he *doesn’t* do any acting and barely any REacting. His sole movie was excruciating - and he was,…