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Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people
(www.independent.co.uk)
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ITT: People who suck out all of the context and humor out of a joke and then insist it was never funny (even though the dude sells out arenas and everyone laughs and he's widely considered by comedy fans and other comics to be a living GOAT). Comedy is democratic. You can't say the stand up comedian is this or that, because he is telling jokes.
To be fair, Just because poeple Like it doesnt mean it is good. Hitler was elected too. Im Not saying he is a bad comedian, i dont know him. I Just think the Argument "it is good because its popular" ist Bad.
He did try to coup in 1923, but that failed and which ended him in "jail",where he wrote Mein Kampf. And He was appointed as "Reichskanzler" in 1933. The nsdap got about 17.4 Million votes that year. Wikipedia page
Hitler was appointed not elected. Please read a book
I see. My argument here is more like "many diverse groups of people basically unanimously had the same involuntary reaction to the jokes, therefore the jokes are funny."
If I show a steak to a room full of people and 99% of their mouths water, we can safely say that the steak is appetizing.
My other point is when you strip away from a joke the context, innuendo, voice, and attitude, or you go in prejudging the comedian, you have so altered the material that it cannot be fairly judged.
I've seen all the specials and he's never struck me as any sort of bigot.
As a queer who has watched essentially everything he's released in his career, he has always had material that came off as bigoted against queer and trans people, and I've still been a fan of his until recently but I don't have a strong judgement on what his actual views might be, comedians always try to be controversial. What are the diverse groups you are talking about? Has there been some kind of objective study on the average response to his comedy? It's always been popular among a decent number to make fun of queers and trans people, women, disabled people, other groups, does that mean we can't still say "wow fuck that guy" when they do it?