Dave Chappell is a TERF. On the other hand, Marc Maron’s new HBO stand-up special, Panicked, is great.

Dave Chappelle is arguably the greatest comedian of all time. He goes after everyone and this circus surrounding his stand up just makes him more money. Maybe this Marc Maron guy works for Dave Chappelle and they came up with a multi-layered bit to stir up outrage knowing it will drive up profits.

In a world that had George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Bill Hicks in it, the argument that Chapelle is the greatest comedian of all time is argument lost the second it's made.

He's up there with the greats. It's all semantics but you're out of your fucking mind if you don't think Dave is up there.

Nowhere did I say he wasn't great, because he arguably is up there. But to suggest he's the greatest *of all time* is just idiotic hyperbole.

When I say something is arguably thus, in my mind, that suggests that I know there's going to be debate around the assertion so I'm purposefully not stating it outright. Dave is a great comedian. We can agree on that. Semantics aside, the campaign against his comedy (including this) has helped him.

If you’re still that great of a comedian you can be funny without feeling the need to punch down on people. Especially trans people who’re literally in high danger of abuse/death everyday. You’re being an abuser. You could just keep their names out your mouth. I don’t give a fuck how funny you WERE.

Telling a comedian what they can and cannot talk about is never going to work out the way you want it to. Furthermore, who the hell are you to make that demand? Dave has addressed the exact point you're making about punching down in his comedy.

You’re delusional if you think it’s anything other than arrogance. But sycophants apparently gonna stump for abusers because they gave them the ha has. And who the fuck are you to dismiss people’s right to basic humanity?

A right to basic humanity has never included protection from being made fun of. It never has. It never will. Dave is an equal opportunity offender. It's a point of pride. Telling him he can't make fun of something is a surefire way to get him to do it. Ignore him and it will all quiet down.

I didn’t say he CAN’T. But being out here defending a guy as arguably the greatest comedian when part of that comedy is putting actual targets and danger on real people is a choice. You may think jokes don’t matter in real world but how do you think hate gets normalized? This is a sad hill for you.

I don’t care how funny he is, transphobia is off limit from making jokes about! It’s a low hanging fruit, everyone knows it, why don’t you pick on someone who has the self esteem to fight back Dave?!

What about gays? Or is it just the trans who need special protection?

Trans need it more

Comedy isn’t about things being off-limits. It’s exactly the opposite, always has been, like any other art form.

No, trans jokes need to be off limits because I feel like Raja Jackson when they are being jokes made about trans folx I’m ready to snap and chimp out on someone

lmao wtf? Fascism? Nah dude, they are jokes, they are a comedy special. Like... FACSIM? you keep using that word, i dont think you know what it means. Also, i dont see Dave Chappell as transphobic. He makes jokes about everyone. Where is the brigade for all of those jokes? Or are those ok in ur eyes

Irony! Or in this case, "iroy."

>Doesn't see dave chappell as transphobic >Claims that he isn't fascist. Found the fascist.

Also, anyone who disagrees with you isn't a fascist.

No, but full on believing and spreading fascist propaganda, DOES make you a fascist.

fascist propaganda? are you a retard he said a joke. he didn't over throw a state lmfao. touch grass

When he makes jokes about other minorities, do you care then? or are those okay?

The Dave Chappelle bots are out in force. How much is Dave paying this outfit?

He's said he could "see the anger in the right" but was blinded by the fact that it was hatred. He sympathized with them, they laughed at him. He was against killing black Americans, now he sits with the murders. He was against apartheid, he brought a man who made millions from it on his stage.

Mr Chapelle, you can say how much you hate people left you claiming "I'm still me", but that's the thing, everyone else sees you as a hypocrite now. Much like Carlos Mencia, the public is moving on. You turned your back on your people and fans, this is your legacy.

Don’t agree. Dave has always been brutally honest and fair. He’s not hateful.

The Dave Chappelle bots are out in force.

Correct the only person who can ever have a positive or neutral opinion of dave chappelle is a bot, no human as ever once liked his material. Thats why he became so popular. cause not one person ever laughed at his jokes.

Dave must be tired of having you try to put his cock in your mouth so relentlessly.

The left can't handle jokes now? Yikes.

I've never thought Dave Chapelle was very funny. I've seen some of his TV appearances and thought his jokes were in bad taste.

He is just so angry and justified. I would say he is my anger translator but I probably tell the same amount of people where the fuck to go.

Chappelle sucks. Fascist pig

Just saw Chappelle live in Yellow Springs. At times, I vehemently disagreed with the content & I felt offended. Should I have the power to censor someone else who offends me? I don't think so.

He wasn't censored. People simply decided where to vote with their dollars. Every one of us has the right to decide what to spend money on, what to invest in, and where to do business etc. We also have the right to tell people why we make those decisions. I will never surrender these rights.

The only movement using the full force of governmental intimidation to censor is Trump and magats who actively purged people who disagreed from non-partisan jobs and fired teachers who refuse to sign their bs declarations, and defunded schools, hospitals, and literally anyone who stands in their way

This! People seem to struggle with the difference between changing the channel or canceling an app on your device vs Holding you for the Vance meme or other crap

Well, Marc Maron works with the 🍏 company, so...

Well, Marc Maron now works with the 🍏 company, so...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yV...

I don't think right now is the best time to be appropriating the word "Fascist". We kind of need it for other things.

Picking comedians who rip on trans people every chance they get is, in a way, fascist propaganda. It directly helps what the fascists are currently trying to do.

Talking about anything other than what they are actually doing and instead devolving into a culture battle, once again, is how fascism wins. You are literally ignoring anything relevant for a comedian making some jokes. Also you are going after the wrong one? There are others saying actual hate

What makes you think I'm ignoring other issues? People can be concerned about multiple things at once, dude.

because you are entirely focused on the trans joke. still waiting for a response about his gay jokes.

oh wait, gay people dont matter to you lol

ON TOP of their "jokes" oh and they are hanging WITH the fascists in real life. None of these is something dave did. But you are entitled to your wrong opinion about a person you dont know about

Fascist and hyper capitalist.

I would argue that fascist would be the appropriate term. A central point of fascism is propping up heteronormative ideals while demonising queerness. It's seen everywhere from WWII Germany to contemporary Russia, and content that supports these ideas is inherently fascist when a fascist regime...

...is in power. If a fascist regime were not currently in power, I would definitely agree that fascism is not the correct term. Think of fascism as a body with cancer. If it's untreated, the cancer spreads. Each type of content which supports fascism is another site for the cancer to spread to...

...and then eventually, all of these sites that the cancer has spread to help the cancer get into the lymph nodes. Then ho boy there's big trouble. Trump = cancer Secondary sites = influencers, comics, others who spread propaganda. Lymph nodes = maga, fascism widely accepted in society. ...

...the cancer has been spreading for a long time now, and what we are seeing is a society in need of serious end-of-life care. We rang the bells for decades warning about this, but in the end, we couldn't compare with the First Amendment right to spread hate.

What would be the right adjective in your opinion?

I don't think he read the piece. ;)

I like Chappelle, but he's kind of at the same point in his career for me that Louis CK is. Famous due to his comedic acumen, yet toxic.

George Carlin got there, too.

Maybe I missed it but I never think of Carlin hateful, or ungrateful, I just feel like toward the end he lost a comedic step.

He started spouting off about pretty much everything - very much an old man yells at cloud thing. It was very cringe.

He probably no longer finds it remotely amusing and is irritated at trying to warn everyone for decades, and no one really gave a shit.

Truth even in humor hurts

Wait for the BUT GEORGE CARLIN COULD DO NO WRONG stans.

Comedians make a name for themselves by, usually, being over the top, in whatever form they use. Really, I respect that Netflix is allowed to make whatever decisions they want to. Just as the public has the right to respond as it wants to. Freedom 😁🥰

With transgenders being only 1% of the population, soon there will be more bills against them then there are transgenders. The Nazis used transgenders as scapegoats as well. It's only a matter of time until the American Gestapo start grabbing them and putting them in concentration camps.

I remember when you can tell jokes about whatever you wanted to and nobody got their panties in a bunch... it could have been disabled jokes.Gay jokes, old people jokes didn't matter.Just laugh or if you don't like it.Shut up and go watch something else because your feelings are hurt

Cool. Go fuck yourself now.

Money is going to win every time with corporations.

I like to think Chapelle wised-the-fuck-up based on what I saw in Jan 2025, but I just don't know...I don't trust him. Still, all the Chapelle Dick-riders here need to take their BS back to Facebook...People used to chuck shit at unfunny comedians back in the day. Nobody owes him a laugh.

All I'm saying is there comes a point where a "joke" is so unfunny and in poor taste, it stops being *just* a "joke". When your newfound audience consists mainly of reactionary assholes and sociopaths, that's a major red flag about a Comedian. Chapelle is a better actor than a standup.

My point is, the whole point of comedy is to push back against the status quo and punch up against those in power. Chapelle's brand of "comedy", does the exact opposite; he punches down and serves to please the status quo. It's the exact same shit the Fluffy does now and tbh it's depressing.

In short? I think Marc Maron is right for the wrong reasons. Chapelle isn't a fascist, but he's still an opportunist that aims to please the fascists for the almighty dollar, which is arguably *worse*. It's Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" all over again. Dave's bullshit repeated doesn't make it truth.

Understandable.

How is everyone surprised that the evil corporation chose money? This isn't news.

It's always about the money, never the people...

I see all the usual BUT MUH FREE SPEECH fascist-adjacent libertarian wannabe fucksticks lining up to suck Chapelle here. Hilarious.

Intolerant Dave, sell out.

Not to mention their Kill Tony bullshit. That one is truly horrible. Fuck Netflix.

Netflix was more progressive than Amazon Prime... thanks to American Citizen it has to compete with that Ideology...

How many black comedians have shot up a school? Netflix did nothing wrong.

So much hate in these comments! You all must really only see the worst in everybody who doesn't share the same opinion or belief as you. You're all fucked up. What a world.

Dave Chappelle wasn’t even all that funny BEFORE he started punching down at Trans people.

Other comedians grow and change their comedy as the decades change, unless they have something timeless, Chappelle seems very stuck in the 90s.

There was probably a moment he was rethinking his act before some kind of comedic insecurity led him to think he should stick with going for the MAGA cash. While a master like George Carlin would’ve roasted those Bible belters with style.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yV...

If Dave is a MAGA pleasing fascist, then so is South Park. So you gonna cancel Matt and Trey, Viacom, and Comedy Central too? 🤔

It's almost like you are rage bating.

I stating my real opinion. I don't argue with strangers in the internet. ✌🏽

A black guy disparages trans people, but wants racism to stop? I don't see the difference, Dave.

Dave Chapelle isn't trans?

Netflix. Something else I’m glad I don’t waste my money on.

Let's be real here. No one carries appropriate queer content outside of queer run spaces. When a story centres queerness, it is tokenisation at its worst. Queerness should be incidental to the story itself, a minor arc inside a totally unrelated major arc. Netflix largely tokenises, not represents.

I have no clue what happens here, but I guess, I won’t subscribe to Netflix then… Gives me a lot more time to read and go outside… 🤷‍♂️

Looks like my Netflix cancellation was justified after all.

If there's one thing that fascists love it's a black comedian married to a Filipina muslim. That's true fascism. But he opposed one tenet of leftist dogma! He's HITLER I TELL YOU!!! 🫡

Marc is spot-on, as per usual. Biggest aspect about this issue to remember is this: Times change. Some socio-cultural norms come and go, as we see what works to help and what doesn't. The Isolationist-leaning Nationalism movement is hellbent on bringing the '50s back... Gilead ain't Heaven...

Marc has always been really strong on civil rights.

Yea, I haven't renewed my subscription since they put Joe Rogan's racist, misogynist, transphobic "comedy" show on their programming.

It’s George Takei expressing gratitude to someone named Marc, likely for a kind gesture, support, or collaboration, though the exact reason isn’t specified in the post.

Flannel

I used to watch “The Chappelle Show”. I liked it and thought the skits were funny and creative. BUT, he had writers and other guests in support. As an individual “comedian”? His punchlines, deliveries, topics, targets: Old and un-relatable in my view. Pass.