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.

  • @Filthmontane
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    -439 months ago

    Personally, even if it’s not transphobic, it’s pretty lame to make that your topic for the entire special.

    • @LotrOrc
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      449 months ago

      It really wasn’t at all That’s why I don’t get this article or the reactions from people in the comments about this article.

      That wasn’t the main topic for the entire thing it was a fairly small part

      • @blocker1980
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        89 months ago

        Because everybody loves to act offended.

      • @Illuminostro
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        49 months ago

        Because rage sells ads. Period. And most people are sheep who need to belong to a flock.

    • @Illuminostro
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      29 months ago

      It’s not the topic for the entire special. You’d know that if you watched it.