re: Chappelle: The Closer (Netflix)

Posted by mattz1122

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Posted on 10/14/21 at 5:45 pm to JJ27

Started watching this earlier and turned it off as soon as he made the appalling Mike Pence joke. Just canceled my subscription as well.

Posted by AMS

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Posted on 10/14/21 at 6:09 pm to Deactived

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Hopefully it is his last if this is the kind of material he is going to put out. Like people said in here, its the epitome of law hanging fruit. Race, politics, lgbtq, rinse and repeat.

...those topics have been his bread and butter for like 3 decades. im not sure why you watch his stand up if these topics dont cut it for you. its pretty clear that most of this special was a response to criticisms of those topics in his previous netflix specials.

Posted by hombreman9

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Posted on 10/17/21 at 11:23 pm to mattz1122

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Started watching this earlier and turned it off as soon as he made the appalling Mike Pence joke. Just canceled my subscription as well.

Even more so than the LGBTQ crowd, you are soft as Charmin if you got offended by a mike pence joke.

Posted by BranchDawg

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Posted on 10/18/21 at 7:45 am to LSUFan8719

It’s good stuff. Not as good as Sticks and Stones, but still very good.

The Clifford joke and the “male leader for the feminist movement” jokes were both awesome

Netflix employees walking out over Dave Chappelle’s ‘The Closer’ to be supported by celebrities in PSA

Posted by SUB

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Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:04 pm to BranchDawg

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Many celebrities, including some who have worked with Netflix in the past, will reportedly appear in a PSA at the employee walkout on Wednesday in protest of Dave Chappelle’s controversial stand-up special "The Closer."

Employees and activists had previously planned a walkout on Oct. 20 dubbed the "Stand Up in Solidarity" protest. They aim to present co-CEO Ted Sarandos with a list of "firm asks" after he previously defended both Chappelle and the platform for continuing to play home to "The Closer."

Variety reports that LGBTQ+ celebrities such as Angelica Ross, Jonathan Van Ness, Jameela Jamil, Eureka O’Hara, Colton Haynes, Sara Ramirez, TS Madison, Our Lady J, Alexandra Billings and Joey Soloway will appear in a PSA showing solidarity with the employees who walk out as well as calling for better, more responsible representation of the LGBTQ+ community on the platform.

Damn, I wonder how much pull these D list "celebs" have...

Posted by CocomoLSU

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Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:15 pm to SUB

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Damn, I wonder how much pull these D list "celebs" have..

I'm not even lying or trying to sound cool when I say that I have literally never heard of a single one of these people:

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LGBTQ+ celebrities such as Angelica Ross, Jonathan Van Ness, Jameela Jamil, Eureka O’Hara, Colton Haynes, Sara Ramirez, TS Madison, Our Lady J, Alexandra Billings and Joey Soloway

Like literally not one.

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Posted by SUB

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Posted on 10/19/21 at 1:59 pm to CocomoLSU

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I'm not even lying or trying to sound cool when I say that I have literally never heard of a single one of these people:

It's funny because they had to qualify "celebrities" with "LGBTQ celebrities." If they just simply said "celebrities", it wouldn't make any sense. The addition of "LGBTQ" basically means that they aren't celebrities at all.

Posted by touchdownjeebus

Member since Sep 2010

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Posted on 10/19/21 at 3:50 pm to SUB

Why were they offended? I just don’t get why they were offended. I found Chappelle to be vulnerable and honest. There was nothing antagonizing about his take on transgenders at all. If anything, he was honest in his position and clarified that if his jokes hurt someone, he was sorry. I thought it was masterful.

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Posted by Fewer Kilometers

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Posted on 10/19/21 at 3:59 pm to touchdownjeebus

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There was nothing antagonizing about his take on transgenders at all. If anything, he was honest in his position and clarified that if his jokes hurt someone, he was sorry. I thought it was masterful.

That's what pisses them off.

Posted by Kvothe

Member since Sep 2016

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Posted on 10/19/21 at 4:09 pm to touchdownjeebus

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Why were they offended? I just don’t get why they were offended. I found Chappelle to be vulnerable and honest. There was nothing antagonizing about his take on transgenders at all. If anything, he was honest in his position and clarified that if his jokes hurt someone, he was sorry. I thought it was masterful.

They big mad he prefers the "old gays" b/c they actually dealt with true discrimination and trucked their way through it. He was spot on saying this new generation of them are soft as baby shite, they know it, and hate being called out for it.

I have the same sentiment as you. I thought this special was great bc of how honest he was about it all. It may not have been as funny as his previous work, but I liked it for what it was.