Laughter comes from uncomfortable truths that people think but can’t say. The long and short of it is this: WE NEED TO LAUGH. But I would argue that you do not understand the fundamental truths about comedy and its role in our lives if that is what you take away from this. Yes, if you want to define Dave Chappelle’s “worth” by whether he’s “good” or not, and whether that “goodness” is measured by the jokes he tells? Then sure, draw that conclusion. He is diving right into “verboten” territory for 2021 and has now been called a bigot and accused of using his comedy to disguise his hatred. But I digress.Īnyway, so here is Dave Chappelle saying the most offensive things you’ve probably ever heard in a long while. By the way, this is why they call themselves the “Deplorables,” after Hillary’s (misconstrued, I think) comment about them. You have a big audience but a select one. Once you cross the Trump line you simply can’t participate in respectable society anymore. Getting too close to the Trump line is worse than probably anything else and even those who oppose cancel culture, like Dave Chappelle, don’t go there. What defines bad is “wrongthink.” Saying or thinking the “wrong” thing about something. They have to be deplatformed or screamed at or cancelled. Or else they’re BAD and if they’re BAD they gotta go. Most people you know who cover film online and are on film twitter also have to be GOOD 24/7. Movie studios, and AMPAS and the Television Academy and you name it – all have to be broadcast their “goodness” at every turn for a while now, but especially after 2020. There is no requirement to be “good” so there is no requirement to follow the rules.īut Netflix, like all major institutions in this country, is supposed to be “good,” or that is how it has defined itself, more or less. They’re already BAD so it doesn’t matter.
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The best way to write any sort of complexity into a movie or TV show is to write BAD characters who can then be free to make the offensive jokes or reveal actual truths. People like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel – they want to be seen as “good,” like everyone else on the Left. Remember that? Satire now is defined as jokes that mock the lower classes who support Trump and the occasional toe-dip into making fun of the ruling class but it better be safe and non-threatening or ELSE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR JOB! Mike White writes in that long dead genre of SATIRE. Sure, every so often Mike White will take a deep breath and scribble down some hard truths that are met with blinking confusion half the time. The object of comedy is to startle us into laughter and once we laugh we release our fear.īefore I watched Dave Chappelle’s highly offensive but hilarious last chapter, The Closer, I was sure comedy, along with everything else, was almost dead. But because we were living under the thumb of conservatism, it wasn’t the homophobic jokes that were scandalous, but the religious ones. They were as bad as you can get, as offensive as you can get. He would be long since cancelled by now, probably for a wide variety of things but none so much as his jokes. I remember a very offensive comedian named Sam Kinison. The problem is, the Left still controls almost everything, but especially art and movies and literature, and yes, comedy. Now the Left sees itself as “good” and has fashioned a religion of a kind, and the Right are the heathens. The left were the heathens, who weren’t necessarily religious. Back then, people on the right saw themselves as “good” because they tended to be religious. Coming out of the free love era of the 1970s and into the Top Gun era of the 1980s meant that conservativism blanketed everything. I grew up this way because the movies I loved, the books I loved, the art I loved, the comedy I loved always hovered at that line between acceptable and forbidden. I grew up fighting for the rights of musicians, comedians, directors, writers and even scientists to explore ideas even if they ruffled a few feathers. You have to be really old like me to remember a time when young people stood up for freedom of expression. In general, publishers and movie studios and employers are happy to throw people under the bus when there is enough outrage online to save themselves from getting too close to the flame. But you never know how these things might fall in 2021. There was a brief moment where I thought Netflix was going to buckle and remove Dave Chappelle’s The Closer from Netflix.
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