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.

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    10 months ago

    OK. You’re entitled to your biases and unfounded opinions as much as the next person. Doesn’t mean we need to respect them.

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        10 months ago

        Did you miss the part about how he’s not going to watch it himself but already has an opinion based on his own assumptions?

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          10 months ago

          Did you miss the part where you told him asking for context meant he was biased? And they’re only assumptions if this was the first time this comedian had ever done a netflix special making trans people the butt of his jokes. Once someone has form for it, and we know he’s done it again, they’re no longer assumptions, they’re a reasonable inference.

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          Sounds to me like there’s no context to be had and you’re just getting called out for lying. 🤷