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.

  • fosforus
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    6 months ago

    If he has trouble walking around all day without fixating on what genitals someone has a birth

    Aren’t you fixating on the genitals by saying that? Human sexuality is a bit more than genitals, even in the conservative definition. It’s literally encoded in every cell of our bodies, affecting almost everything.

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      No I’m not. I’m making a simple statement not an all inclusive one. If you are trans you can have whatever body parts you want and be whatever you want. It’s none of my business what so ever.