Ep. 1870 - Dave Chappelle Tries To Win Back The Left's Favor By Celebrating Murder

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When we did a retrospective on Bill Burr's fading career, we tried to find the precise moment that Burr went from being an entertaining comedian, which he was at one point, believe it or not, to a joyless, unfunny, predictable shill for the political establishment. At some particular moment in time, he made this transition from a world-class comedian to a guy with the sense of humor and comic instincts of a public school teacher. And scholars and historians have debated when this shift took place and why exactly. And we concluded that there's a lot of truth to the theory that he married a black feminist and the rest was history. No man, sense of humor, can survive a marriage to a feminist, neither can his bank account or his self-respect or, in many cases, his children. So the once edgy and funny comedian is now a finger-wagging HR representative, and that's a fate that has claimed many others. Howard Stern, a whole host of other Gen X and Boomer comedians. George Carlin was perhaps a pioneer in this regard. He was one of the first major comedians to deflate, like a balloon toward the end of his life, becoming a limp, sad, droopy shell of what he had been. Not telling jokes entirely and just sort of sad on stage, delivering philosophical exposition that seemed really insightful and interesting if you were a freshman in high school, enrolled in special ed classes. But to anyone who went to a Carlin show expecting maybe a joke or two, it was confusing and disappointing. And a similar transformation has occurred now with Dave Chappelle. He has always been overrated, but he at least used to, he used to tell jokes, you know, he give this setup and then he'd land on the punchline. That's how jokes work in case you were curious. And sometimes the punchlines were pretty good. He had a routine that he did 20 years ago where he, they still see the clips sometimes where he critiqued the residents of Sesame Street for their unfair treatment of Oscar the Grouch. It's not funny when I retell it, but from Chappelle, it was, it was amusing. And mostly though, Chappelle has spent his career, aside from the stuff about Sesame Street and some other stuff, he's essentially been making the same three jokes about white people for, you know, 30 years. And the media treated him like Jesus back in the day for that reason alone. He was revolutionary. He made fun of white people. It's constantly doing these media profiles about him. The black comedian who makes fun of white people, who'd ever heard of it, who'd ever heard of a black comedian making fun of white people. No black comedian ever done that before with the exception of every black comedian who had ever lived. But aside from them, it had never been done. And Chappelle's show on Comedy Central is consequently discussed with the same reverence that, you know, people talk about like a citizen cane or Shakespeare. But if you go back and watch Chappelle's show now, you'll actually be shocked by how lame a lot of it is. And I'm not just saying that now, it's true. And it's not because it's offensive or anything like that. It just lands flat. There are about five Chappelle's show skits that you remember because they introduced catch phrases into the culture. What you might not realize or recall, and I know I didn't until I went back and checked, is that those five skits are it. It's like the only thing the show ever did. That's it. That's all there ever was. And when Chappelle ended his show, Comedy Central immediately went out seeking another black comedian to do skits about white people. And that gave birth to key and peel, which actually holds up much better than Chappelle show, probably because they produced a bunch of skits that they did a lot of race stuff, but they also did a bunch of skits that have nothing to do with race at all. And then peel left and he started making horror movies where every single movie is about how white people are evil. So regression to the mean, I suppose. But at least back then, Chappelle was trying to be funny. In recent years, however, he's taken the Bill Burr and George Carlin and Howard Stern route. He ran out of jokes years ago. He told his three white people are lame jokes and couldn't think of a fourth. So now he wanders around stage telling these long, discursive stories, philosophizing, impressing himself if no one else with how insightful he thinks he is. And performing at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Chappelle had one of these moments where he reminded everyone once again that he's no longer even vaguely interested in comedy or jokes or making people laugh. He took the opportunity without any kind of punchline in mind to declare that he felt good about the fact that Charlie Kirk was publicly executed because of his political beliefs. Watch. I feel upset saying this is scary being a public speaker. And I mean, look, ever since that guy Charlie Kirk got murdered and I shouldn't say this publicly, but I feel better. I know I shouldn't say it, but it's just a feeling. I didn't ask you to do this when I should be driving around. But why am I in such a good mood all over the world? Now there's no joke here. There's no punchline. Like millions of other leftists. He's just happy that Charlie Kirk, a young man and a father of young children, was shot in the neck on camera. That's it. That's the whole point. That's the only takeaway. And to be clear, this was not an ad lib. He's apparently said the same thing before, most recently at a show in Toronto, although they confiscate phones at these shows, apparently out of embarrassment. And the footage hasn't leaked. So we don't know exactly what he said. But I saw people posting at the time that he joked about Charlie Kirk in a show in October, which makes this even worse. Not because it's offensive, but because it's so incredibly lazy and witless. This is a written, rehearsed material, apparently. It's an offense against comedy more than anything else. I mean, saying that you're happy someone died is not a punchline, especially if it's actually just a genuine reflection of what you truly think. It could be the setup to a punchline, a comedian may say something shocking or outrageous, and then follow it with a punchline that subverts your expectations, goes in a direction you weren't expecting. Somehow draws comedy out of that dark place. Louis CK is especially good at that, which is why he's maybe the only comedian at his generation that has managed to produce a funny comedy special at any point this decade. But Chappelle doesn't subvert expectations or take the conversation in a surprising direction or deliver any sort of punchline at all. What you just heard there is the whole joke, which is to say it's not a joke. It's just a statement. And making an outrageous statement with no setup or punchline is at best the comedy of a 75 IQ YouTuber commenter. It's the comedy of a Nigerian bot on Twitter. It's not the comedy you'd expect from a guy performing at Madison Square Garden. And yes, that footage does not include the full context of his statements. That's true. A lot of people were saying, well, you know, in context, it might not be so bad. But when you look at additional footage that's leaked from the set, it turns out that the full context is actually even worse if anything. Watch. So this apparently was not like him saying this thing about how happy Charlie Kirk was killed. And then, you know, he eventually comes back around to sort of critique that that very statement or, or, you know, he was trying to get the reaction from the crowd and he comes back around like make a point about the crowd's reaction or something. He apparently didn't do that. You know, that would be interesting. That could be an interesting thing to do in a comedy show. But Dave Chappelle is not smart enough to think of something like that. And he has no interest in doing it. Um, he said he's gotten credit for a long time for being this subversive comedian. He's almost never said anything subversive. Go back to Chappelle show's days. This is just white people are dorks. Black people are cool. That's pretty much been it's his entire career. It's actually not subversive at all. It's very safe. The one exception is when he got into the trans stuff. We'll talk about that later. But, you know, it is surprising and somewhat encouraging. I guess that if you listen to these clips, the audience at Madison Square Garden didn't entirely burst out laughing. Um, that's what you'd expect, given how leftists have been celebrating Kirk's murder all over the internet for the past year. But Chappelle's audience, some of them, uh, seemed shocked by what he said more than anything. So maybe there's some decency left even in a city like New York. Of course, the glass half empty perspective is that it's a sad thing to take solace in the fact that only half of the audience, I mean, as a square garden, laughed about Charlie Kirk getting murdered rather than the whole audience. In any case, I've seen and keep in mind when he first brought up Charlie Kirk got murdered, there were cheers in the crowd before he even got to the quote unquote punchline, which tells you something. Not the whole crowd cheering, but you definitely heard them. In any case, I've seen some people suggest that, well, you know, Chappelle's doing what comedians are supposed to do. He's being transgressive, he's saying something you're not supposed to say and therefore he's brave. He's carrying on the time-order tradition of comedians who aren't afraid to speak truth to power, etc. But there are a few major problems with this argument. First of all, everybody on the left mocks Charlie Kirk, so this doesn't even qualify as a thing you aren't supposed to say. Second, no, the point of comedy is not merely to say things you're not supposed to say. Anyone can do that. Anyone can stand on stage and just rattle off a series of statements that will seem offensive to normal decent people. The art of comedy again is to find the funny thing in those dark places, the setup and the punchline. Chappelle skipped that step as he usually does now. That's what he, as he usually does, he just says a bunch of stuff. There's no joke. He's not making a joke. He's just giving podcasts monologues, okay? And it's not comedy. It's the equivalent of standing on stage and saying, so a rabbi and a nun walked into a bar and then just moving on to the next bit. But you skipped the joke part, I got the rabbi and none. What about it? I mean, are you just making an observation about a couple of random bar patrons? Because if so, that's not a joke, that's just an observation. Third, again, this is what he really believes. If I get on stage and say, for instance, George Floyd was a drug adult vagrant who died of an overdose and his death was his own fault. That would qualify as something you aren't supposed to say, but it's not a joke. It's not comedy because it's just a plain statement of a thing I actually believe. And the thing I believe in this case, which is definitely true, may be offensive to some people. That doesn't make it a joke. And if I make that statement, which I have, which I have made plenty of times and someone becomes offended and I respond by saying, hey, man, relax, it's comedy. What do you don't like comedy? What do you against comedy? No. See, that wouldn't make me a comedian. It would make me a coward to afraid to stand by my own beliefs. Because when you make the statement and then there's no punchline and then when someone gets offended, you say, hey, I was joking. The only way it was a joke is if you didn't, if you don't really think that and even then it's still not a, like just saying a thing that you don't think is still not really a joke. That's not a punchline. Okay, if it's, if it's, if it's not raining outside and I say, hey, it's raining, like that is maybe a joke in the most primitive, elementary sense of the term. It's not good comedy, though. But that's the, that's the only implication is that you didn't really mean it. So that's just your way of backing away from this thing that you said, which you clearly actually mean. And speaking of George Floyd, the other problem with this argument is that when Chappelle had the opportunity to comment on Floyd's overdose, he took a very different approach. I think this is a pretty instructive mocking George Floyd, of course, would have been transgressive and brave, especially for a guy like Chappelle. It still may not have been a joke, it may not have been comedy, but that would have qualified for Chappelle, especially in 2020, 2021, to get on stage and make any kind of criticism of, of George Floyd. That would have been transgressive, especially coming from him. It's one thing for a right wing podcaster, like myself, to be harsh and blunt about George Floyd. If a guy like Chappelle had done that, it would have been truly courageous. But Chappelle chose instead to use Floyd's overdose as an excuse to deliver a weepy, self-serious sermon. He did his best Amy Coney Barrett impersonation and whined about how Floyd's overdose death was, you know, a great tragedy. I mean, this is even, I don't, I'm not even sure if I ever saw this clip or maybe I blotted it for my memory. This is way worse than I expected, even. So here's just a couple of examples of what this, this brave edgy comedian said about George Floyd in the wake of his overdose death. Watch. But would later would become to know the North Ridge earthquake happened. It felt like it started in my apartment, you know, from east to Mississippi. On this side, we don't know what earthquakes are about. I got to tell you something, man, it was absolutely terrifying. A lot of things went through my mind. I was like, not naked, but, you know what I mean, just chilling in my boxes, I put my clothes on. I found a pipe and a lighter and some money and my keys, all these things, while earthquake is happening, while I'm experiencing what earthquake is the first time. And I was certain that I might very possibly die. As a matter of fact, I remember I made a point not to scream just in case I lived. I wouldn't have to remember myself being vocally terrified, but I forgave myself for being terrified. That earthquake couldn't have been more than 35 seconds. This man kneeled on a man's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Can you imagine that? This kid thought he was going to die, he knew he was going to die. He called for his mother. He called for his dead mother. I've only seen that once before my life, my father on his deathbed called for his grandmother. But a tragic footnote to a tragic culture. This is a lot to unpack, you know, nights like this, I think important. It's just talking about it, what countrymen, all of us, we live in America, we're, we all got our problems, our stricers, it's weird, it's weird now because this game of who suffered more, that everyone keeps getting a ball. And they act like everyone suffering is mutually exclusive from everyone else. And you and I both know that's far from the case, you know, there's a lot of angles that you could approach us and look at this from it and learn from each other from, but it's a thing. And I'm troubled about the volume of it doesn't sound like something that's settling or hurling towards an easy resolution. Now that first clip is indeed a clip of a Dave Chappelle standup show, I guess, you know, there are many factual inaccuracies from one thing, he calls George Floyd a kid. Did you pick up on that? This kid, this kid had a knee on his neck, okay, George Floyd was a 46 year old criminal, the size of a parade float, not exactly a kid. Also Derek Chauvin did not have his knee on Floyd's neck for eight minutes or whatever, which is why Floyd didn't have any semblance of a neck injury. Floyd repeatedly said, I can't breathe while he was in the squad car and the police were trying to calm him down, long before they tried to restrain him on the ground. He was panicking and desperate, perhaps because he sensed that he may have finally taken enough drugs to end his life and he had, but Floyd was in that position because of his own choices. He was dying because of the multiple serious crimes he chose to commit on the day he died. And then the drugs he chose to take, he was a degenerate who died by his own actions. Leaving that aside though, this is also perhaps the least funny, most self-serious, most contrived and affected and tedious performance, we've ever seen from a comedian on stage. Like I don't say this lightly, but Chappelle makes feminist comedians look hilarious by comparison. I would rather attend a comedy festival where the lineup is Hannah Gadsby, Samantha B and Wanda Sykes, then sit and listen to any more of that. This is the guy who we're supposed to believe is an edgy provocateur who just enjoys poking the bear, hardly. For Chappelle Floyd's death was an opportunity for a serious national conversation. Even unironically use the phrase, this is a lot to unpack, which is a comedic crime that should get you arrested and deported or at least heavily fined, okay? I generally believe in free speech, but a comedian using the phrase unironically, this is a lot to unpack. There have to be consequences. There are limits to the first amendment, and this has to be one of them. But Chappelle was reduced to blurting out cliches because Floyd's overdose was a travesty of historic proportions, apparently, or mighted him of a massive earthquake. Certainly it wasn't a topic he'd ever joke about under any circumstances, St. Floyd can't be criticized. So when people make this claim that Chappelle just says things that are forbidden. They're lying to you. He absolutely has sacred cows. He doesn't want to touch. 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I'm sure you feel the same way about George Floyd jokes or Trayvon Martin jokes or the jokes about Melissa Hortman. I've actually seen a number of conservatives make a version of this argument. One number of conservatives have said, "Oh, the right jokes about George Floyd, it's the same thing." But first of all, just for the record, I'm not aware of any jokes about Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota lawmaker, who was shot at her home by a schizophrenic who was appointed by Tim Walls to serve on some state level advisory board. Hortman was not shot because of her political views. She was shot by a lunatic who wrote a rambling manifesto about how he was going to go to war on behalf of the Democrat governor of the state. He also made numerous other false claims about his own biography about, you know, getting an elite military training and so on. This was not an instance of MAGA violence or even left wing violence, just a crazy guy. And to my knowledge, nobody is joking about it. But as for Trayvon Martin and George Floyd, yes, people were making very critical remarks about the deceased. Some people were even telling jokes and rightfully so. And no, the situations are not remotely comparable. Unlike Charlie Kirk, neither Trayvon Martin nor George Floyd were murdered. And that's a very big distinction. Trayvon Martin tried to beat a Hispanic guy's head into the pavement before he was shot in self-defense. George Floyd, as we discussed, was a career criminal who died doing what he loved, committing multiple felonies while overdosing and resisting arrest. He died of an overdose. He took a lethal amount of a drug and that's why he died. Now, it's not to say that we should take some sort of like sociopathic glee in the fact that Trayvon Martin and George Floyd are dead. I don't take glee in it. It's a grim, ugly thing, but we're under no obligation to pretend that their deaths were a great tragedy of some kind. Of all the deaths that happened the days they died, like we're not obligated to pretend that their death was somehow worse than any other death. And in fact, their death was significantly less tragic than most of the deaths that probably happened on that same day or even that same year. These thugs were a menace to everybody around them. Their communities as a factual matter are safer without them. They lived highly disordered, dysfunctional lives. They were criminals. And the more the left tried, you know, tried to treat Floyd like a Messiah, the more it made sense to joke about his alleged legacy precisely because his legacy was actually a rap sheet that included things like home invasion, armed robbery. Okay, trying to make a literal Messiah with like, you know, with messionic murals out of a guy who committed home invasion, armed robbery is absurd. It's a ludicrous. What else are you supposed to do but mock it? Now Charlie Kirk, on the other hand, did not break any laws. He never forced himself into a woman's home at gunpoint as Floyd did. He didn't commit any acts of violence against anyone ever, much less police officers. He never overdosed on fentanyl. No one, no one would want to live anywhere near George Floyd or Trayvon Martin. If they were still alive, you wouldn't want to live in their community. You wouldn't want to live near them. If they're walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. And for good reason, they were dangerous people. But nobody even on the left, no matter how much you pretend to care about Charlie Kirk, you would not be worried about living in the neighborhood with him. You wouldn't. And if he was walking down the street, you would not be afraid of him. He might have had a reason to fear you as it turns out, but not the other way around. Charlie Kirk was a good man, respected everyone he interacted with regardless of their politics. In summary, not to belabor the point, George Floyd again was a drug-addicted violent criminal hobo who died of a drug overdose and then was venerated as a literal saint while left this burned down entire city blocks in revenge. Charlie Kirk was a political commentator who never committed any crimes, was gunned down on camera while speaking peacefully in front of an audience, and nobody responded by rioting or committing any acts of violence or reprisals anywhere at all. So no, joking about George Floyd is not the same as joking about Charlie Kirk. The two men and the circumstances around their deaths and the subsequent reactions to their deaths have no resemblance. There is no comparison except that they both died. That's it. Anyone trying to draw this moral equivalency is lying or stupid or both. And any conservative claiming that we have to tolerate the Charlie jokes because we criticize George Floyd is a submissive cucked shill and should be disregarded on this issue and every other, just to be totally clear. So if you're going to mock Charlie Kirk, what exactly is the reason for it? What's the larger point you're getting at? On the one hand, you might say that, well, the answer to that question seems pretty obvious. The larger point is simply that the left wants to murder conservatives. And we're not going to spend too much time, you know, proving that point, but because we don't need to, but we'll deviate more materially just to establish this basic point. Because there's a lot of evidence of this as we know, and there's a lot of recent evidence as well. So just as one example, here's, here's, and you may have seen this clip circulating recently on on X just to, I think it was right after the election. But here's, here's a clip from Jennifer Welch's podcast watch. Normal person tweets, they're going to give newborn baby septum piercings at the hospital. Yeah. Brandon tweets, make sure you open that, okay, wait, Brandon tweets, make sure you open that up on Sundays from here on out, Chick-fil-A. No more Sunday school homophobes. No more, no more mega church Sunday school homophob. Dad Moro says we're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again. I'm zooming into the fox. I don't know. No comment, no comment, no comment on that. Never, then he was shot by somebody that was super mega family. He was shot by a mega person, right, so do that with what you will. White person, white mega family, bag only only thing I ever saw him wearing, I'm never seeing where any trans thing was a mega hat. Yeah. It's a lot just been said already about how these women are clearly sociopaths, obviously aging decrepit truths or channeling their self-hatred and loneliness into rambling hateful political commentary because they hate themselves which they should and their own lives which are surely miserable and if they have kids, I'm sure their kids hate them and don't want to be around them. So there's a lot of that going on. It's also true that Jennifer Welch looks like Willem Dafoe in drag as I pointed out before except worse because you can find more plastic in her face than in a river in Indonesia. And the other woman actually looks a lot like John Kerry in a blonde wig. So those are all facts and we've already been through them. What was my point though? My point is the notable thing at the end of this clip where Willem and John claim that the shooter Tyler Robinson came from a white Maga family. It was a common tactic on the left when it comes to talking about this assassination. On the one hand, they'll celebrate it as if they're rooting for the assassination, which is what they're doing. In the same breath, they'll pretend that Tyler Robinson was actually a Maga figure that they'd nothing to do with. So they try to disavow it and also celebrate it. You see what they're disavowing the murder and celebrating it at the same time and seeing no contradiction in those two things at all. If you're familiar with the book Days of Rage and Leftist Terrorism in general, this will seem familiar to you. Leftists have learned to openly engage in violent revolutionary terrorism while also denying that they're doing it. Even when their denials are clearly absurd, they still serve some purpose. Bill Ares and the weather underground, for example, would pretend that they never engaged in deliberate acts of violence. They would claim that they only bombed empty buildings. That was a lie and a brazen one, but they stuck with it. And eventually it became the dominant narrative about the weather underground. The same thing is happening here. They know that Tyler Robinson had a trans furry boyfriend. They know that he killed Charlie Kirk, especially because in his view, Kirk had hateful political views. They know Tyler Robinson wrote antifa messages on the bullets he loaded into the gun, including the words hay, fascist, catch. They know that the political views of Robinson's parents are irrelevant, but they still want to suggest that although it makes no sense, Charlie Kirk was killed by someone who was on his political side. The same thing with the Trump assassination attempt. This is the Bolshevik playbook, just reprehensible, cowardly, dishonest people. And here's more of the same. This is from somebody named Scott Galloway, watch. We have begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard. Elon Musk is a traitor to the West. He lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall. This is a traitor to the West. And you should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West. Anyways. As true story, I had a Tesla, a great car. You started shitposts me on Twitter, so I sold it, not before taking a giant dump in the passenger seat. True story. Not good for resale value. On that note, um, yes, he claims he took a dump in his own vehicle before he sold it. And this defecation was apparently a way of owning Elon Musk. He also wants to murder or at least he wants the state to execute Musk. This is a guy that the left considers an intellectual, by the way. This is one of their sober thinkers. Yeah, I wonder what's he going to next and now that he's sold his own vehicle in a particularly bold act of protest, maybe he'll buy 100 Tesla T-shirts. He'll dials them a gasoline and light them on fire inside his house. I would really show Elon Musk or better yet, maybe he'll put one of the T-shirts on and dials it and then light it on fire. Elon would never recover from that. Of course, neither would Scott Galloway, but he doesn't seem to mind a little self sabotage in the name of defeating fascism. Now, I've heard the counter argument that when it comes to Charlie Kirk, leftist like this, aren't really mocking his murder. Instead, they're supposedly mocking turning point USA. And the rights alleged glorification of Charlie Kirk after his death. I'm told Hassan Piker said this yesterday, although I didn't watch his show and I can't imagine why anybody would. I also saw a few people making his claim on X as well. It's a, you know, a common way of kind of trying to sort of intellectualize and legitimize this sort of thing. It's not a very persuasive argument, mainly because all of the gloating started within seconds of Charlie's murder. Maybe attempt to blame anyone else for the, like any attempt to blame the reaction of the right or TPSA or anyone else for the left's response doesn't work because the left response to Charlie's murder kicked in immediately. Long before Charlie's funeral was held, they were celebrating his death. So the idea that they're not really mocking his murder simply doesn't wash. Not to be as fair as possible to these people. If they deserve it, which they don't, we can acknowledge that TPSA is still very much a political organization. They're staying in the arena and therefore they shouldn't be immune to criticism or mockery. I don't think anyone at TPSA would disagree with that. Everything is fair game for criticism. TPSA's podcast, their ground game, their organization, nobody's suggesting otherwise. TPSA is not, itself is not suggesting otherwise, but there's a vast difference between attacking or criticizing the organization and going out of your way to mock the murder of a human being, you know, the people who are joking about digging up Charlie's corpse and then lying about the antifa furry chaser who shot him are not mocking the organization. They're not making some jab at how Charlie's legacy is supposedly being overhyped by the right or whatever. They're just mocking his death because they think it's good. It's really not any more complicated than that. They just think it's good and they're happy about it and that's it. And the jokes about Charlie Kirk are especially heinous for reasons that have nothing to do with the fact that I agree with his politics. Okay, there is just something especially callous about gloating over a brutal bloody murder that we all saw with our own eyes. This was a young man and a father of young children. We saw him get shot in the neck. We saw the blood come gushing out. The natural human reaction when seeing something that violent and bloody and shocking no matter the identity of the victim is to be moved by it to be shaken by it. We are visual creatures images stick with us. They resonate. That's natural. That's human. So the image of a man any man being shot in the neck and killed in front of a live audience is haunting and horrible. Your immediate instinct as a human should be to feel horrified, repulsed, sad. If instead you're gloating about it, telling jokes, it shows that this human part of you is dead. You truly are a soul as goblin in a way that's only vaguely distinguishable from the guy who actually committed the murder. That's what makes your callousness so disturbing for those of us who still have souls. It is that we are human and you no longer are and that makes you a monstrosity to us. We're not offended so much as we are revolted by the sight of you. You've become the spiritual equivalent of a maggot eating corpse. You are a grotesquery, a morally disfigured beast. And in the case of Dave Chappelle, it's particularly nauseating and pathetic. In 2022, Chappelle was attacked on stage in Hollywood. The guy tackled him armed with a replica handgun that had a real knife blade inside it. And here's what that looked like. It is a gentleman who makes him know it's for hip-hop history. Okay, now there it is, full on, it's like a full on form tackle, but he didn't even put a gun. I don't think I know if I ever watched that clip fully. He goes to the tackle and misses and ends up falling, so anyway, after this attack, Charlie posted the following message on X. Instead of mocking Chappelle, he went after the prosecutor who refused to bring charges. This is what he said. He said, "By refusing to charge the armed maniac who attacked Dave Chappelle on stage, George Gascon is sending a clear message that public acts of political violence are justifiable and even encouraged against anyone who dares speak out against the regime. It's sinister and un-American." Four years later, Chappelle is giddy about Charlie's assassination. He's not weeping like he did after George Floyd's overdose. And we shouldn't be surprised by that because again, he's always been a bitter anti-white hack. His entire career from its earliest days has been built on open disdain for white people and self-loathing white liberals couldn't get enough of it. They loved it. I feel like good people when they support a mainstream black community knew mocks whites just like they felt like good people when they spent a thousand bucks on Hamilton tickets so they could watch black rappers make a mockery of the white-founding fathers. If you're a white liberal, a core part of your identity is recognizing your privilege and being cucked by celebrities, preferably non-white celebrities who hate you. There's just one illustration of this phenomenon in action. This is a 2004 interview that Chappelle did with a white lady on NPR at the height of his fame. And you'll listen how enamored the white lady is when she asks about how Chappelle does his white person accent? Listen. Now, you're really funny at doing white people. I think, like, when. in your white you don't think of there being like a white accent, do you know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. But when I hear you do it, I realize, okay, definitely like a white accent. So what do you do when you do white? I take the rhythm out of my voice, I try to keep it monotone and even, but again, all right, see I do these things, but I'm not really, it's almost like sometimes I watch old movies and how they portray black people, you know, with like stepping fetching and all these things. I remember watching them and something in the movie made me laugh and they were like, why are you laughing at that? And it's not that I'm laughing at black people as much as I'm laughing at the way black people will perceive, like this is what they actually thought about black people, which just seems ridiculous to me. So I think, you know, when I do that, I think, again, it's not malicious and it's not necessarily what I think of what it was just a funny character of what, you know, okay, it's a perfect, it's a perfect clip in some ways, um, have the white MP Arley, it's, it's, you're, when you make fun of white people, it's so great. I mean, can you do the bit when you make fun of, it's so amazing, you're, it's, you're a genius. Unfortunately, his white accent doesn't actually sound like an actual white person, but, um, other than that, he nailed it. I mean, as a white guy who talks in monotone for a living, I can say with some authority that this isn't what white people sound like exactly, but the white, you know, the white MP Arley to eat it up and, of course, a white comedian had been talking to her and started talking in abonics, which is actually how a lot of black people talk. She, she, you know, probably would not have been it as enamored with it, but MP Ar had no problem with, with, uh, with it because for decades now, the entire leftist agenda has been premised on, uh, on going after white people. 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To the extent that Shepel has anything interesting or brave in his entire career, it was to mock transgenderism. It does one of the few times when he actually went after something that was politically incorrect. It was one of the few times when he went after an actual sacred cow again. Being a black guy in the 2000s, making fun of white people, nothing bold about that. Everyone loves it, but going after the transgender, okay, and so for a few years, he went after, you know, he started making trans jokes. He did it after we had already made it safe to go there, kind of like how he did a routine on Jesse Smollett years after the fact. And in the spirit of openness and honesty, I think we can now admit that we as conservatives gave Shepel way too much credit for making a few trans jokes. I'm certainly guilty of that, I'll admit. In our defense, this was at a time when every major institution in the country had gone insane and everybody was insisting that men and dresses were actually women. So we were desperate. We were desperate for anyone in mainstream culture to simply acknowledge the basic reality that was sitting in front of all of our faces. It's like if you're sitting in staring at a brick wall and there's a bunch of people around you saying there's no brick wall, there's no wall. One person comes along and says, oh yeah, no, there's a wall there. It's like, you know, you're grateful for that. Even more grateful than you should because all he really did was just say, yeah, there's a brick wall there, after you had already said it. But still, you know, and that's probably what provoked a more enthusiastic reaction on the right than it was warranted. And then Shepel came along with a lot of material like this. Watch. When I watch sports, I'll be thinking about it. Like thinking about it. Okay. Okay. Say LeBron James, uh, change his gender. Can you know what I mean? Okay. Please stay in the NBA or, because he's a woman, does he have to go to the WNBA where he will score 840 points a day? What does it actually mean to be equal? You know what I mean? Like women are actually equal to men, then there would be no WNBA with it. You would just be good enough to play in the NBA with us or here's another idea that's going to be very controversial. You could shut the fuck up. Now I agree with the point, obviously, and the joke is fine. And you know, we gave Shepel a lot of credit for that joke at the time. It is at least a joke, sort of. Uh, that is an example of like, there's a joke there, you know, LeBron James 840 points a game. Kind of a joke. And so that's an improvement for Shepel, but it's, it's also a joke that by the time Shepel landed on it had already been made by approximately every single conservative on social media a billion times. That exact joke of if LeBron James is in the WNBA, all he has to do is pretend he's a woman, he's a BWA. He'll score a thousand points a game. That precise joke, I mean, maybe not a billion, maybe a hundred million. Sometimes it had been made. Yeah, that's a conservative estimate. And that's what part of what made it seem notable at the time. He's saying the thing that right wingers have been saying, but that's also what makes it in retrospect not very impressive and hardly a comedic revelation. The more important point though is that ever since the backlash he received after this brief foray into slaughtering leftist sacred cows, he's been trying to claw his way back into the good graces of the left. And that's why he's now going after Charlie Kirk. Now, if you ask Shepel defenders, they'll tell you that actually he's a highly principled comedian who walked away from a $50 million payday solely because he wasn't comfortable with how some white people were laughing at his humor. As a story goes, he was uncomfortable when a white person on set appeared to be laughing at his black stereotypes instead of laughing along with them. But the truth is probably that Shepel was a deadbeat who walked off the job because he couldn't hack it. Then he blamed his own laziness and competence on racist white guys. According to the time when Shepel left the show, it was producing quote, "A sketch about magic pixies that embody stereotypes about the races." The black pixie played by Shepel wears blackface and tries to convince blacks to act in stereotypical ways. Shepel thought the sketch was funny, the kind of thing his friends would laugh at, but at the taping one spectator, a white man, laughed particularly loud and long. His laughter struck Shepel as wrong, and he wondered if the new season of his show had gone from sending up stereotypes to merely reinforcing them. When he laughed, it made me uncomfortable, says Shepel, "As a matter of fact, that was the last thing I shot before I told myself I got to take it effing time out after this because my head almost exploded." Now, when you look back, it's funny that Shepel became briefly a hero to the right. This is a guy who says he stopped doing his show because he doesn't want white people laughing at his jokes. Imagine a white comedian complaining about black people laughing at his jokes. And then still having a career after that, you can't imagine it because it would never happen. The point here isn't that we should be offended by the fact that Shepel is a bitter anti-white hack. The point is just that he is. That's what he is. He dropped out of his show because he didn't want white people laughing at his jokes. What else do you call that? To an extent, you know, that a lot of people probably didn't realize if they didn't fall Chapelle's career that closely or ever, you know, read anything about the reason why he stopped doing a show 20 years ago, this is what he is. And I know I certainly never read much about it because really who cares, there is no reason to care now except as a way to put context on his Charlie Kirk comments as the left insists that we do. Everyone is saying, what's the context? We need context. Well, here's the context. As you wish, Chapelle has always hated white people. Charlie was white. He was successful. He was conservative. That's why Chapelle was happy to watch a young man and father of young children get shot through the neck. There's your context. So yes, contrary to what he told the white MPR lady, he is indeed malicious. He will celebrate your death as he celebrates the murder of Charlie Kirk. On the bright side, we can be sure of one thing, which is that regardless of how ascendant the left is right now, Dave Chapelle will not get the last left. That's because if this footage from Madison Square Garden is any indication at this stage of his career, he's having a lot of trouble getting any laughs at all. Don't forget Confession comes out on Wednesday on The Daily Wire. I have, I've seen it. It's a beautiful movie with the great performances and captivating story. If you're not going to miss it, if you're a member, I want to see it with an audience in your city, go to Daily Wire and claim your free ticket right now. They'll do for sure. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Father, I used to feel Christ, I cannot feel anything here. They take me out of my bed, and they brought me here, and they tell me nothing. What have I done? Article 58, counter-revolutionary activity. That is all I know. 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