The Closer

[pen_grunt]

The Closer, live blogging. Because I fucking love stand up. And I can't resist a controversy.
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Dave Chapelle looks fucking puffy.
He doesn't even look like him.
Stage design is stupid.
Lols at preacher joke. Because wtf, catholics.
Dude has not aged well.
Mjohnson of corona is cute.
Ummm... the audience is super generous.
Space jews? I mean. It's not that offensive, but also... the punchline is... space jews for no reason?
Maybe he needs more coke? Because it's low energy comedy.
"This is my last special because..." oy, what a pre-frame.
10:27 i need more wine.
Unpaused. Getting into the lgbtq community.
Oy.
DaBaby shot and killed someone in Walmart, but you better not hurt a fat person's feelings.
Uh oh.
Can a gay person be racist? Look at Mike pence! Okay. But. Stop calling shitty people gay to weaponize homophobia.
"Make these buttholes ugly to me" lol
Oy. Compare and contrast gay rights to black American racism. Oy.
Newer gays too sensitive. Too brittle. Mkaaaaay. You like your gays gloryholeless and in the closet.
Dude. Why is this set about being gay? Write what you know. Or clearly not.
Mlk glory hole integration...lol.
The defensiveness of a brittle dude. Can't be a brittle gay, but can be a brittle famous person.
Oy. Texas Homosexual.
Dude, Dave. Why is this your set.
Aaagh. He called the police. Gay people are minorities until they need to be white. Truth.
Uh oh. Oh no. "Beat up a lesbian in a night club...no, bitch i didn't even know you was a woman" joke. Fuuuck, m'dude. There are so many other topics. Try one on...
"Lesbian fellow"
Misgender. Misgender. Misgender.
What the... fuck.
The suit is so shiny and so stressed at the belly button.
"I tenderized them titties like chicken cutlets" (on beating up a masc lesbian) oyyyyyyy.
"I whooped the toxic masculinity out of that bitch"
Duuuuuuude
Pullin at the too-tight suit.
Hippie strippers... okay.
Chappelle's neck is like walmart bargain chicken rotisserie
Is this whole act responsive instead of innovative?
This is peak snowflakage.
She's not the first woman who said I hate women...
Why the fuck, dude, is your set about lgbtq and feminism. Punchity punch down. My god. You're better than this.
Every time I look back at the screen I'm distracted by how pulling his suit is.
Oh. Sojourner Truth. Repeating the "aint i a woman" myth from the white women rewriting SJ? But maybe he's going somewhere.
Nope.
I supported the me too movement. But the way they handled it was stupid. True. Performative activism is terrible. But also. Has no recognition of the origin of me too.
Eerrrrrgh...
Oh. My. God. "If these women were serious they would have fired their agents" HOW MUCH POWER DO YOU IMAGINE WOMEN HAVE. SPOILER... NOT THAT MUCH.
Wowza that victim blaming.
Why is. His special. About this.
"Everyone gets mad at me..."
Maybe it's YOU My dude.
Oyyyyyyyy
Single button not your suitcoat friend. Can't get over it.
Oyyyyy
Transphobic comedian dave Chappelle.
Well.
There you go.
What. The. Fuck. About trans. Bathrooms.
Also he's got it backwards. No one with a skirt is going to pull it up at a urinal THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.
jfc. I want to like this so much, but. Fuck.
Going onto juneteenth.kay..
Yeah. Good point, slavery perpetuating. ... SPACE JEWS IS YOUR PUNCHLINE WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.
Going into more trans stuff
...oyyy. I hate flailing comedians
Omg. He cited punching down.
WHILE DOING IT
Sort of masterful if you're into that.
Weaponizing the concept of punching down is...wow. wtf.
Every time I look at the screen he's weirdly skeletal puffy.
Dude. You know you're transproblematic and you're leaning in. Cool.
Top shelf joke funny!
Lolz at $16 round joke.
"Trans-bitch" all the time. Great.
80s gay joke... also funny!
Arghhhhh.
Why, is the thing. Why is this the crux of his comedy? It's fucking lazy. My God..

Comments

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Texas Homosexual was the most important thing he had to say. Precisely what needed to be said, in fact. Texas Homosexual Punched Down on African-Americans. Texas Homosexual would like all of the perceived 'advantages' of being a protected class while experiencing very, VERY little of the burden of oppression.

Allow me to explain the Privilege of a Closet

My father and my uncle were born to the same two people. Bangladeshi dad. Black mom.

Uncle had a closet. He was unfairly skinned (as the only thing 'fairer' about lighter skin is your treatment) and could pass for Bangladeshi. This made it very, VERY easy to find work in 1960s Detroit. Got hired in a snap by a family-owned machine shop. They gave him the business when they retired.

If my father walked into the same shop, he'd be told they weren't hiring. If he pointed toward the 'Help Wanted' sign in the window, they'd repeat WE'RE. NOT. HIRING. If he'd turn to leave, they'd say YOU DON'T LEAVE OUT THE FRONT DOOR and a few of the steadily enployed, paycheck-earning, able-to-provide-for-their-families-while-less-talented White workers might step up to make sure he didn't.

He might not always tell us which restaurants sat him in the back or burnt his food to ensure he wouldn't come back. But now and then he'd slip.

Fast forward to 1993. My second initial interview, third overall at a supposedly affirmative action enployer. Your county, in fact. They passed on me the first time around. Whoever they hired didn't work out. After three questions, the two white women simply stopped, smiled and said, 'We're going to stop at this point. We're not going to hire you. You were the top scorer of our achievement test; we're required to do this. But we're not going to hire you. Good day.' And they smiled White Privileged Smiles with their thin White Privileged lips while telling me I couldn't provide for my family. No reason furnished whatsoever.

A Closet is a luxury I can't possibly imagine. I'm Black at 40 paces. I'm Black before you know One Fucking Other Thing about me. If I could apply for a job or a loan or a place to live and say I'm Not Black and one person believed me...? Or my father...? Well, then.

What's the Tuskeegee experiment? When did it end? How many decades after a simple, inexpensive cure was readily available? Did you know Dave's grandfather was among the unwitting, unwilling subjects? Tis true.

Unless Dave did an hour's material on Native Americans, he's not punching down. He can't. Not his option.

There's both personal and generational pain involved in 'discussing' the reality I call life. Life the only Black Man in the state of Minnesota with my job. Still. In at least 27, going on 28 years. Which still makes me very distant second to any/all Somali women. So excuse me if I'm unable to continue

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

1000% agree on Texas Homosexual. Believe I noted as such.

1000% disagree that Chapelle can -never- be punching down.

I see your point about passing v not passing, but it's a lazy, hacky comedy choice he's making when he uses a whole-ass special to make the lgbt community his punching bag. At least spend a part of it on other things.

Oh wait. There were space jews, I guess. So slow claps to him.

It was fine. Just can't think of that repeatable laugh line that everyone water-cooler quotes, and no one else can either. Maybe there is one!

I liked his other "controversial" specials on you tube and otherwise. This one didn't hit right with me.

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

See, this is why We Can't Talk to Whites about this. We Don't Matter.

My Father's Life of hardship, My Own, Dave's grandfather's decades of actual and unimaginable physical suffering is reduced to But a Point. Cuz white folk of the Alphabet community who could 'switch off' of their suffering--not a great option, but better than I've ever seen--are far more important.

I say this in the kindest way possible. You Lack Perspective

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I take your point. Stepping back.

[newlifeinstpaul.livejournal.com]

Please understand I don't agree with everything Dave had to say. I rarely do. (Especially the feminist segments--99.8% of them in ALL the Netflix series) But to recount what I've posted is to relive what I've reposted. And that's exhausting and I could climb back into bed at 10 AM. I lack the strength right now

If you've heard me for even a half-second, it's more than 99.99% of White America bothers to do so I can't thank you enough

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

The exhaustion is understandable. Thank YOU for putting in the work to comment and explain, seriously.