I used to be lukewarm about Dave Chappelle’s comedy,” says Travis Merks of Calgary, “but I’m really coming around to him now that he’s awful.”

LOL that was a solid one, Beaverton.

This is too good: I couldn't tell if it was satire until I looked at the comments.

Dave Chappelle isn't funny anymore

Dave became a rich old white hick. It's not just bad trans humor, it's old, tired ass bad trans humor. Same style of jokes rich old racist morons use. Hicks absolutely love that kind of empty headed shit though, so they defend him.

Chappelle: I'd like to announce my new special, "Let's get TERFy". It's just me in front of a brick wall making transphobic jokes for an hour. It cost 80 million dollars.

Interviewer: How do you sleep at night?

Chappelle: On top of a pile of money, with many beautiful ladies.

The Beaverton is like a Canadian Onion of sorts.

I stopped watching this guy when he sold out to Elon Musk. How lost do you have to be to do that when you're as famous as this guy was?

I didn't think he's as transphobic as he's put out to be. However, he's not coming off great and I don't see why he needs those bits. He's a better comedian than that.

Like I think I saw a clip of one of his most recent ones and at the end it ... the point was that a trans man or women doesn't really look much like who they want to be or identify as to him. I mean, it seems dehumanizing doesn't it?

Well, maybe he is as transphobic, maybe I gotta see the whole special to get it and it's part of a larger gag. In any case, I'm not a fan of that type of stuff. Also, he brought Musk on stage so fuck him.

you know I think most people understand that a comedian's "role" is to be funny, right. and then, they will argue against that comedian, on the basis that they are not living up to their role, they're not funny. dave's wrong because he's not funny. if only dave was funny, then what he's doing would be fine! I think this is kind of misguided, kind of dumb. you argue against them, accepting the premise of their argument, but then you have an inability to fully take their perspective, see the comedy they apparently can see, and then it kind of falls flat. you're also not the arbiter of comedy, like, have some perspective, some shitheels are going to find that funny, and their comedy, you know, it exists. we have to stop pretending like it doesn't.

no, my issue isn't with his comedy, whether or not he's funny, I don't really give a shit about that. I care about whether or not what he's doing is morally right. comedy is just kind of blatant escapism anyways. are the dozens of people saved from suicide by direct consequence of watching dave's comedy, are they worth the lifetimes of time wasted on watching him? I don't want to get like morally puritanical about all media, or say that countercultural media has no place in society, right, but I also think that you have to be trying to do something with your media. just kind of throwing it out there so people can whittle away their life on laughing at your funnyman jokes is kind of lame. that's why george carlin was good. george carlin was actually not that funny. I know, sacrilege, heresy, whatever. I prefer mitch hedberg, pure wordplay. it's not that he was funny, it's that he was legitimately correct, and radical for the time, and unfortunately still somewhat radical today. but it stems from the fact that he was correct. dave being funny, not funny, whatever. but dave is just blatantly incorrect in his worldview, here. the perspective from which he makes these jokes, i'm sure the jokes he's cracking are funny from that perspective, but it's a wrong perspective, a bad perspective. it shouldn't like, not be allowed, be outlawed, not be conversed with, discussed, but it's a wrong perspective. and i find his comedy to be bad on that basis, rather than on the basis that he's not funny.