In my honest opinion, Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special The Closer wasn’t that funny. At times, there were glimpses of early Chappelle, the one that was relentlessly hilarious. However, these moments did not last long. Clearly, being funny was not Chappelle’s top priority.
The Closer was about proving a point. And it only took a few days to see this point proven to an absurd degree.
The Closer was about proving that some words cannot be uttered in media – even if they are factually true – under the threat of public persecution and financial ruin. And Chapelle committed the ultimate thoughtcrime: He said that “gender is a fact”.
Like the vast majority of people on Earth, Chappelle believes that men have male reproductive organs and that women...