0:00 [Music] all right for those of you guys who don't know i know these guys already know we just want to see what they think dave chappelle was set to perform at this venue called first avenue in minneapolis and then the venue cancelled on him what they were caving into the leftist protest that he was spreading uh transhaven i saw this ████ dude like was it a comedy club or what was this theater venue yeah the theater so they were okay so there was a venue and dave chappelle was supposed to do a show there and they said we're canceling yeah and then i didn't know the reason why but it was because they said they call them an anti-trans man they don't like money or what no they said the first first avenue was theater they were quoted as saying like oh first avenue is more than just a a box with people in it
0:52 we have like values as well here you community and we want to do what's right i never thought that there would be a day where dave chappelle would be the poster boy of ████ straight up xenophobic like i know anti-trans like that's so ████ weird i think they're just right honestly i think they're really forcing it yeah they really are people are not they're not you're not even watching the special that's what i'm saying just watch the joke watching yeah like because he dude that that's honestly when i watch that ████ actually kind of made me tear up yeah yeah it was a very powerful story that everyone puts into question about like the trans bit that he did right i felt like he did a really good job of balancing the nuance of how complex that topic is and then also making jokes because that's what it is he's making jokes at the end of the day
1:42 i just like adding uh trans to every word i just heard trans hate trans man transatlantic you know transatlantic that's my favorite transaction transaction transam yeah trans fat real bad real bad transplants bad food yeah trans fat you eat it turns into protein later but the thing is so i i kind of you know when when he first got canceled or whatever by lgbtq or whatever right and then so like i actually wanted to see if this is something that i need to like get schooled on because i don't really know the community but when i went on the forums and saw this stuff they don't even agree um like like they like there's trans people that are and there's also gay people that are like nah dude he's ████ cool like they're just jokes and like you guys
2:32 need to ████ get a grip and then the people that are trying to cancel them are like no ████ that he's like saying and i'm like well if the community doesn't agree then how come only one section only gets representation because that's like if someone made an asian joke right and then like maybe like three asians were angry but like most asians were like nah dude just ████ chill it was a good joke then it's like who do you listen to well the white people get mad you know that's the white people yeah that's like sure maybe it's the white people the straight white people that are speaking on behalf of all the minorities there's a lot of i don't understand that what do you you don't want this battle save us dude they have to save us to save all of us they're only open hope there were some really good uh quotes from like other comedians about what happened and uh i think was uh piscopo someone said this they said that like oh this is just a demonstration
3:22 where um people think that by canceling on you that they now have the power that you have oh yeah but it's an illusion it's like you'll never have it that's where cancel that's where that comes from yeah because and also like comedians are so tight that if dave chappelle doesn't get allowed there then there goes probably joe rogan like all his other friends that go down the list and then now that that first avenue is probably going to go out of business like nobody's going to do ████ they were saying too they were like uh first avenue deserves to fail now well they might have other shows because it's not just a box full of people they're gonna have puppet shows there's also that really like there's a very very difficult thing like if you cave into like far left uh agenda you'll be held to an impossible standard yeah you will never be able to beat it
4:12 you can never be when i was in high school all the way up until college the far left was cool as ████ dude they were so cool and then for some reason it turned into a bunch of hall monitors like they used to be the one that was like that's the best way to explain it yeah dude that's what we identified as back then yeah like more like rage right like right against the stream yeah they're anti-government now they're pro-government they're like pro-f██████ establishment i'm like what the ████ is happening it's all over the place it really is there was another quote that i thought was really great somebody said that if you walk in and we're making fun of you now you're accepted among everybody in that room because everyone's being made fun of yeah but if you're being put to your own little corner yeah we're like oh we're not going to make fun of you because you're lesser and you're more sensitive that's whack yeah for everybody bro
5:03 everyone gets it that's why you get dunked on sometimes i feel like far left is so racist because like they think that all minorities are a bunch of victims that need saving and all this ████ and i'm like dude speak for your ████ self bro both sides are racist yeah yeah yeah for sure for sure the far right [Laughter] most of us in the middle here we don't want to ████ deal with that ████ let's get the right and the left that are like on the farthest corners and let them ████ and like go over somewhere else that's what makes it difficult that both sides want to kick our asses right yeah and that's the thing with this whole trans thing like for me personally is is like it's depending on which statistic you believe it's one percent of the population but it's actually way less than one percent because they're i think they're
5:54 also including people that are thinking about it or whatnot but the actual transplant i think it's like way less than one it might even be like whatever like half a percent or like less than half a percent and so hey i understand that they're marginalized and they get bullied i get that but what about like let's just go with black people black people have been marginalized for decades yeah it's like okay you know what let's put black people aside because but let's worry about the like let's i'll give them one percent let's worry about the one percent and that's fine they should be protected but then if you're skipping over other marginalized groups just to protect this this one group it's like hey i know it's heroic and it makes you feel heroic but come on there's a lot of um i don't want to say larger issues or bigger issues because we got to get a line though yeah you do got to get in line there's a line and i really feel like black people are at the forefront of the line you know because of the whole i
6:44 don't know slavery thing you know and the whole and you know now when they talk about racism they they the more modern definition racism is institutional oppression so like if someone accuses me of being racist that's actually a misnomer it's more like i'm prejudiced because i don't i'm not an institution yeah right and so when they bring that up you know so like to me like i feel like black people are number one in that line and you know you can argue with me whatever you want but i would say native americans and black people probably need the most attention first yeah and then the the asians that do need help are the jungle asians yes we need to help the jungle asian i'm just touching the sides
7:35 of my head you can do it it's okay we give you permission you know like we you know like these uh us we're not even marketed to it just gets worse it's getting way worse over there because the thing about us and the thing is everyone knows what you mean everyone knows it's not even like what does he mean by that i do like racist physical gestures because you get right away yeah is transgenders like that you can't is that that version of this or no it hasn't even been made up yet yeah they haven't got one yet yeah or is it something you should that's another thing to focus on yeah we gotta figure out is it like
8:26 the brand name we gotta get the branding right you know scott window right everybody has a physical yeah i'm going hey hey and i'm like what see let's not establish it oh okay um [Laughter] that's how that's how racist uh deaf people yeah all right i have a theory though about chappelle so you know chappelle started like working out after the chappelle show he got a ████ guy his voice got deeper and raspier than a lot of cigarettes are we might be maybe it comes with age i don't know but um i have a black comic friend i won't say his name um but he's a large imposing figure and he's always like man you know it sucks you know you know i'm not getting the opportunities a lot of
9:17 these guys are getting i'm like you know i'll tell you straight cause i used to work in tv development you're a scary black man you're not scary you're nice you're a really nice gentle guy but they don't know that you're an imposing big black man but you take these some of these other black comics that are like skinny and the developed people are like you know they won't they don't ever say it it's probably subconscious like i could take this guy i'm not i'm not worried about this guy so when chappelle took me when chappelle got picked up kevin hart kind of yeah kevin he's like cute and like exactly yeah and you could and kevin's short kevin's like five four five five you feel like you can pick him up put him on your shoulders and walk around he's spunky exactly spunky spunky yeah they love that guy buff um because i don't think i mean i know his material has changed obviously it's evolved but as soon as he got buff he got intimidated yeah a lot more people he got because of his intimidation a lot more people have been coming after him and then because imagine if chappelle was still skinny
10:09 and he had that little high-pitched voice like he did early on in his career or earlier around that time or like killing me softly like that kind of imagine using the same material i don't know that the backlash would be as big because it's not as imposing not as imposing yeah that's really good i've never heard that uh take that's cool do you think uh but having like let's say like the mark twain award you think that like because now he's like a award-winning comedian oh yeah doesn't that i don't know have some sort of like it's like having like wreaths next to your film he's on a pedestal yeah like is that do you think that astrid or takes away from it i think for comedians it adds to it like when we look at it but like for the layperson they probably have never heard of the mark twain award and even if they will they google it and they google they're like oh i don't care whatever he doesn't like trans people so i like forget dave chappelle but dave chappelle is the spearhead of comedy again like
11:00 like he is the guy that once he came back and he's and people start hearing how much money he's gotten how like even more of a figure he is and more people are talking about a stand-up and like the zeitgeist i guess i think that takes it to another level where people are like he's the target kind of like joe rogan right right everybody references joe rogan he's the guy so then what does cnn do they're like we're gonna ████ dunk on this yeah the way that dave moves him coming back it's also in a way of like i figured the game out yeah yeah and i won he's all wise as ████ dude yeah like i and i'm gonna i it's my show and i'm gonna take it like the way that he's like saying these things and then like smoking a cigarette too like lighting it on stage for the mark twain award just like ashton getting on the stage like he's really just like walking all over this industry being like y'all ████ me but i ████ the ████ out of y'all
11:50 you know what i'm saying yeah that's true because all the when he left and he did uh after he got the chappelle show around the third season and he was like i'm out and they offered him what like hundreds of millions of dollars 50 million 50 million right and everybody was like oh dave chappelle's crazy he got a lot of backlash for that and when he dipped out and people were waiting like where's dave chappelle oh oh wait he's doing this stand-up show in the park yeah oh that's crazy oh wait wait we gotta go we gotta go he builds up his hype and then he's gone for a while because i think by nature he's very low key he doesn't want to be in the front stage like that but then what he wants to do is share his comedy and now his style of comedy changed so much where he's almost like in that george carlin-esque where he's talking about life he's talking about regular things and he's he's so much more than just a comedian now he's a storyteller he's he's like defining
12:40 culture for a lot of people straight up so yeah that makes him a target i think on top of everything else when you watch his last few specials i mean i'll be honest i didn't laugh a lot i enjoyed them but i didn't laugh like smiling like yeah but you know you but if you watch something like i'll just use kevin hart as an example you laugh a lot you know and so i to me like chappelle like you were saying chris i think like he's just kind of transcended the whole stand-up comedy thing and he's up there he's almost like a philosopher to a certain degree yeah yeah and we're expected to laugh and so because respected life we watch it we're like oh it was a great special one of the best specials that's like but how many times did you laugh yeah yeah you know if you're gonna go like our job is still to make people laugh at the end of the day the lines get blurred it gets blurred yeah and then like imagine chris if you or i had chappelle's script before he did before he performed and we performed it dude you have any jokes like what are
13:30 you doing dude that's true and then people that are watching it whether they are watching or not because i'm sure the people that are mad at him a good percentage of those people actually didn't watch the thing and they're just like reacting to it yeah that's what i'm saying but because it's a little more serious tone i think some people that don't understand comedy which is a big amount of people right they might take it as like oh he's not even joking like he's being ████ for real there's a headline with damon williams saying uh is he doing stand-up comedy or speeches that's what he did i was just like i mean he's doing funny speeches yeah you're doing funny speeches yeah exactly [Music]
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