It’s the comedian’s first special for the streamer since 2021’s highly controversial ‘The Closer’

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.

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 months ago

    I have always found him to be obnoxious even at the height of his fame. It’s bro “aren’t I so edgy?” humor. Those kind of jokes just became boring for me after freshman year

    I’m not missing the plot at all - I get what he’s doing. I’m just not his target demographic because I matured past high school

    • SCB@lemmy.world
      35·
      11 months ago

      because I matured past high school

      I don’t believe you.

      If you had, you’d be able to recognize that his style of humor isn’t yours and that’s ok. You wouldn’t think “man this guy must really be a Nazi.”

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        22·
        11 months ago

        Are you replying to the right person? My comment - that you replied to - said the following:

        I wouldn’t call him a literal Nazi but I can still get an idea of who he is as a person by the jokes he chooses to tell

        I’m not sure how you could have possibly read that and thought, “this guy thinks jezelnik is a Nazi!”