He also compared the recent vandalism against the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum as similar to how people have attacked his special The Closer. He then added that “these kids didn’t understand that they were instruments of oppression.” (“I’ve heard those words before!” he said, with a bug-eyed grin.) He also suggested that the teens surely did not come up with their anti-Chappelle opinions on their own, that “those talking points coming out of those children’s faces” which “really hurt” the comic, were parroted from elsewhere. Citing a worry about the flattening of nuance, he referred to the backlash about his trans jokes as similar to “reading a newspaper and it said, ‘Man shot in the face by a six-foot rabbit, expected to survive,’ and you say ‘Oh my God!’ but they never tell you it’s a Bugs Bunny cartoon.”
“These kids said everything about gender and this, that, and the other, but they didn’t say anything about art,” he sighed, referring to the previous encounter at Duke Ellington. It also led to a significant push-and-pull related to this very special. This is, surely, due to the backlash against his previous release, The Closer, which led to walkouts among Netflix staff who accused the comic of transphobia and denounced the company for continuing to provide him a platform. Unlike previous unexpected releases (has it really been just two years since the debut of 8:46?) this one appeared on the service with very little fanfare.
The new work appeared late Thursday/early Friday, and listed as a “speech," not a comedy special, as a surprise Netflix drop. magnet high school for performers, theater technicians, and visual artists has been released as Dave Chappelle: What's in a Name? the latest Chappelle special streaming on Netflix. Footage from this event, which took place last month at his alma mater, the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a Washington, D.C. So said Dave Chappelle, not alone to a mirror to psych himself up, but on stage, before an audience, with cameras recording him. “It will be decades before you ever see someone in my genre as proficient as me.
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