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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Never heard a good quality joke come out of Dave Chappelle's mouth in my life. No wonder this is all the material he has.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

If they did, I applaud them.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, this is a flex for SNL.

George Carlin said it better, but good comedy is punching up, not punching down. What we have now is multi-millionaires like Cappelle and Rogan competing to gargle the balls of multi-billionaires while calling it "entertainment".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Yup, you can joke about anything, but you gotta do it well, and not base it in bullshit like that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Eh, Carlin also famously defended jokes about sexual assault, so maybe he's not the best role model for comedians punching up...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

I think you are referring to this bit:

I can prove to you that rape is funny. Picture Porky Pig raping Elmer Fudd. See? Hey, why do you think they call him "Porky," eh? I know what you're going to say. "Elmer was asking for it. Elmer was coming on to Porky. Porky couldn't help himself, he got a hard-on, he got horny, he lost control, he went out of his mind."

A lot of men talk like that. A lot of men think that way. They think it's the woman's fault. They like to blame the rape on the woman. Say, "She had it coming, she was wearing a short skirt." These guys think women ought to go to prison for being cock teasers: don't seem fair to me.

Don't seem right, but you can joke about it.

I read the entire bit. I do think he is roasting the rapey jocks, men who always deflect blame for their actions, the whole time.

Especially for the 90's where people idolized the Michael Douglas type rapey finance Bros this is (still) punching up.

If this is what you were talking about, can't follow your logic.

[–] njm1314 32 points 11 hours ago

God that's all he has. It's amazing how much he's fallen off as a comedian. This is what comedians do when they get old and lazy. The dude shouldn't be hosting SNL, he doesn't have the chops for it anymore.

[–] parmesan 23 points 11 hours ago

poor guy /s. he only has the one joke

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago

Fuck Dave Chappele. You're a dick, bitch!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

Is this the part where Chappelle wipes away his tears with dollar bills ?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 8 points 11 hours ago

I wish Dave twenty years ago could roast Dave today.