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.

  • vxx@lemmy.world
    465·
    11 months ago

    But as it was happening… I was very disappointed. Because I wanted to meet Jim Carrey, and I had to pretend this n*gga was Andy Kaufman… all afternoon. It was clearly Jim Carrey. I could look at him and I could see he was Jim Carrey.

    Anyway, I say all that to say… that’s how trans people make me feel.

    That’s extremely transphobic and not even an attempt at being funny.

    Edit:

    “Give me your fruit cocktail, bitch, before I knock your motherf*cking teeth out. I’m a girl, just like you, bitch. Come here and suck this girl’s dick I got. Don’t make me explain myself. I’m a girl”

    Also very transphobic, and there’s more.

    Here’s the complete transcript of his new program.

    https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/comedy/dave-chappelle-the-dreamer-transcript/

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
      172·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, these aren’t jokes which are trying to push a controversial topic mainstream or create a framework for mutual understanding through humor. These are literally just narratives of hate which underpin anti-trans fear politics and actual violence against trans people

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      11 months ago

      It does seem better to read the full transcript rather than the whole thing (I have more reading time than watching time) but still not so tasteful. He even says he doesn’t want to offend the transgender community anymore, then makes a joke about misgendering himself at a sentencing so he can be the strong man in a women’s prison.

    • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
      428·
      11 months ago

      When you pull out specific lines without the entire context of the joke, you can make literally anything sound bad.

      • vxx@lemmy.world
        111·
        11 months ago

        I posted the complete context. I just left a bit of how much he loves Jim Carrey.

        Read yourself and judge later instead of making up your mind before the fact. You’ll see it doesn’t change for the better but gets worse if you read the whole thing. The part I pasted is pretty much the opener, so you won’t have to dig deep.

      • Jomega@lemmy.world
        112·
        11 months ago

        They posted the transcript of the entire special. There is literally nothing they left out.

        • LotrOrc@lemmy.world
          613·
          11 months ago

          A transcript can miss the tone, intonation, body language, facial expressions, and all those other cues that give an entirely different interpretation of the words being said cant it? All those other cues make a difference in what is being said. As humans we react to facial and body expressions a huge amount in order to understand the context of a situation

          • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
            81·
            11 months ago

            You are just trying to get people to rage watch it.

            The transphobia is obviously, clearly there. It won’t stop being fucked up and shitty because he giggled after he said it.