It’s the comedian’s first special for the streamer since 2021’s highly controversial ‘The Closer’

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.

  • @aesthelete
    -3•11 months ago

    considered by comedy fans and other comics to be a living GOAT

    I hope someday people go back and look at all of these goats in their writing that aren’t referring to farm animals and wind up with the greatest cringe of all time.

    EDIT: Seriously, “GOAT” is a stupid acronym that I blame crappy sports punditry for…people sound like idiots saying it.