Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

    • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      Well the fun part about art is it is open to interpretation. If you laugh because “haha trans people are sexual deviants” then that’s rather shitty. If you laugh because “haha transphobic people sound like that” then you’re probably well adjusted. And if you know the context of Ricky Gervais and don’t laugh then you are well informed.

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        10 months ago

        Well for me I laugh because he points out that she killed someone and got away with it unscathed guess I am just weird at understanding the point of the joke…