Rich white guy lecturing black comedian on how he needs to "pay a price" for how jokes he told last decade are hurting everyone's feelings.......
It's ridiculous that these people analyze and break down comedy to the point where it becomes tiresome. Chappelle isn't my favorite comedian, but he's pretty damn good. He has a way of being topical, authentic, and raw with his humor and somehow he makes it work. Most of his stand up specials are hilarious!!
This part says a lot about these people's mindset:
Chapelle said: I was like how the fuck are transgender people beating black people in the discrimination Olympics? If the police shot half as many transgenders as they did niggas last year, it’d be a fucking war in L.A. I know black dudes in Brooklyn—hard street motherfuckers—that wear high heels just to feel safe.
Rich Juzwiak (who wrote the stupid article) said: The fact of the matter is that 2016 was the deadliest year on record for trans people (
with 25-27 killed, depending on the sources), and
2015 held the previous record.
Chapelle is making a joke and throwing in a little relevance at the time and this awful blogger chastises him by mentioning this "awful, deadly year" of 2016 where 25-27 "trans" people were killed. There's no explanation or anything specifying that these trans people were murdered in hate crimes by cruel individuals who believe they shouldn't exist, no, he just mentions that a group of them died. And there's the fact that the only identifier the blogger gives these people is that they're "trans". They could be black, Jewish, Latino, whatever, but apparently all that matters is trans.
I think these types of people, the ones like this blogger who have a narrow, linear agenda should do their readers a favor and not "review" comics. It's embarrassing. I mean, they aren't furthering anything along or informing anyone. I think the people that go see these comics have the intelligence to understand funny anecdotes, silly impressions, and off-color jokes.
There's something very cringy about watching an uptight, rich, white blogger with a stick up his ass lecturing a very successful black comic like Chappelle.