Can’t speak for city dwelling white people, of which I am not one, but for a black kid growing up surrounded by white America, his humor really articulated in a great way the hypocrisy of American white supremacy, and especially its treatment of black men. Killin’ Them Softly, which came out when I was 16, was…

When it comes to humor, I’ll take ‘funny’ over ‘highbrow’ ten times out of ten.

Well the audience disagrees with you, along with Lorne Michaels.

I think the true talent of Chappelle is getting people to talk about Chappelle. The monologue was interesting because I could laugh at some and easily identify the statements that were going to be problematic. Standup has always been a mix of guffahs mined from humor in ugly situations along with moments everyone can…

It’s almost like there’s a contingent of vocal Twitter activists who are ready to condemn any and everything he says based not on the content of his material but because he said something they didn’t like about transgender people months ago?

Oh look just the ADL yelling at another black guy.  

“That Dave Chappelle SNL monologue probably did more to normalize anti-Semitism than anything Kanye said...”

Jesus, Jews are touchy. They think they’re oppressed? Try being trans.

He didn’t say Jewish people control Hollywood, he said he could understand why some people might think that. “There’s also a lot of Black people in Ferguson, Missouri, but that don’t mean they run the place.”

So acknowledging the existence of an identity is somehow a disparagement of that identity automatically? I’m confused. Is saying, “Jewish people exist”, anti-Semitic?  Why?

“If they’re Black, then it’s a gang. If they’re Italian, it’s a mob. If they’re Jewish, it’s a coincidence and you should never speak about it.”

Adjusted for inflation to today’s dollars The Graduate has a domestic gross of $857 million and is among the 25 highest-grossing films in North American history. The clear and observable fact is that that simply doesn’t - and couldn’t - happen in today’s market.

The whole thing reminded me of The Dark Knight Rises... overlong, overwrought. None of the scenes flow and pace is virtually non-existent. Characters making portentous speeches that add up to nothing. An antagonist (lopsidedly) way more interesting and charismatic than any protagonist.

It was offensive, in the right way. The line ‘when it’s black it’s a gang, and when it’s italians, it’s the mob, and when it’s jews, it’s a coincidence’ is brilliant in it’s structure. That’s not saying you have to agree OR be offended. But he couches it in counterexamples that puts the critic in the position of…

Because he doesnt do hate speech, thats fucking bullshit. He’s allowed to do it because hes a great comedian.

Bowen Yang, Molly Kearney, and Sarah Sherman may regret channeling their inner Nora Dunn.

Don’t kink shame me

So, a handful of writers sat out this episode and, as a result, it turned out to be the best of the season. If I were Lorne, I’d thank those writers for identifying themselves as the problem and give them their walking papers.

Real stand up on the show was great. NBC did not censor DC. A+ for great writing.

Good to see Dave is still capable of being insightful and funny about real current issues, and not just whining unfunnily about his own personal grievances at getting criticized, which the last stand up special I saw from him left in some serious doubt.