Wait wait wait. Norman Lear?  All in the Family Norman Lear?  Hot damn!

he SUSPECTED people were laughing at the jokes for racist reasons and there’s really no reason to think he was right about that.  People identified with his comedy, the fact that a white crew member laughed at a joke about whatever probably meant his family was like that also.  People don’t often just say “what if it…

I think that’s basically right. I also think alt-right celebrity provides a world that feels more insulated from failure.

And I’m going to go ahead and quote that link, for the people in the back

The crazy bit is, okay, so everybody was calling Jim Carrey “Andy Kaufman” even though Dave knew he wasn’t Andy Kaufman, and by continually pointing it out, all it does is make him an asshole.

I think there’s also a misconception that the punchlines are offensive, but funny. The bigger criticism is that they are offensive and also not funny. They aren’t somehow incisive and nuanced takes on the things that divide us. They are hack-y jokes with punchlines that are essentially “Trans people, amirite?”

The problem is that when people dip their toes into the alt right now, they find that the water is juuuuust fine, and not only that, it’s a huge, warm lake ready to embrace them with the soothing waters of grievance and once they’re underneath the cozy waters they look up and see a refracted world that is just…

One thing I remember about the spring and summer of 2020 was how many—how very many—videos that were going viral of older white men just absolutely losing. their. shit. Trying to shove their way into stores without a mask (often assaulting workers and guards), kicking doors, screaming at people. Complete loss of any…

Those are interesting stats, but I’d wager the difference is in how many trans people are murdered simply because they are trans.  Which I’d guess is what MiFroChi’s link shows (but haven’t checked it yet)

Holy shit...Mr. All in the Family wrote that skit? Never knew that.

Holy shit that Dave bit isn’t even a joke. It’s a bad story at best (“I met Jim Carey and he was in character and it confused me”).

Neal Brennan and Norman Lear are listed along Dave for writing that skit, I’m going to guess they had a lot to do with how funny it was.

One weird phenomenon is that no one can seem to be a little bit Trumpy. There are so many people like Chapelle, or Elon Musk, or Rudy Giuliani, or Lara Logan, who at one point seemed to have normal-ish views of the world. Maybe they were skeptical about COVID lockdowns (Musk) or seemed too deferential to the military…

At this point, with the resources and info at his disposal, it’s no longer mere ignorance from Chappelle. He simply decided to be a downright evil and shitty person. It’s not a matter of being from the “old guard”, or in need of education. He knows what he’s doing is wrong, he know people are being hurt, by the ideas…

It really wasn’t. He was nowhere near as smart as his TV writers and throwing them under the bus to cover for his years of shitbag behavior was really cute. He was ALWAYS a sneering bully.

‘Old Man Yells at Trans’

so typical to gatekeep once you’ve walked through the door; suddenly transitioning is a problem to Dave only now that he identifies as a rich white man.

Bottom texting is the ‘24 version butt dialing.

caught the top clip on x (formerly twitter) last night and i think it encapsulates both what actual funny is and why chappelle is such a loser now.

Dude’s...definitely committed to becoming the IRL version of his Nutty Professor character.