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.

  • phillaholic@lemm.ee
    159·
    10 months ago

    So he is punching down and is telling Trans jokes still? It’s not a percentage issue.

    • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
      152·
      10 months ago

      Let’s not bemoan specificity. If anything, we need accurate, fine details more than ever.

      All the guy said what he disagreed with the portion of the title which stated that the special was “filled” with specific jokes. That particular claim IS indeed a percentage issue.

      If you are taking the point further and saying that percentages shouldn’t matter, even 1% is too much, that’s a SEPARATE claim. It doesn’t address the original claim.

      • phillaholic@lemm.ee
        32·
        10 months ago

        They’re last sentence apologizes for the content, so let’s not waste our time pretending that’s the real disagreement. The Andy Kaufman bit is 100% transphobic but OP won’t acknowledge it that way.