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The top dog is back.
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March 23rd, 2017 at 11:48 PM ^
Both were awesome, but I must say the one in Austin was slightly better.
To this day, Chapelle's Killing Them Softly is my favorite comedy special so I was really looking forward to this.
Watched the first Netflix one and while it was funny I was slightly disappointed. It's almost like a lot of it was stuff he felt he had to talk about rather than things he observed and made jokes about. Bill Cosby being his crushed idol, Kevin Hart doing Chapelle better than him, his "breakdown", the black community being somewhat against him, and even that dig about Key and Peele.
He made it all funny but he can do better. I'm encouraged to hear the Texas one might be that.
I thought LA was a borderline masterpiece. Texas had some solid individual laughs, but it wasn't a precisely engineered argument that lured you in, surprised you, and pounced repeatedly--up until the very end. Each individual part of the entire LA show was a surprising piece of a well-crafted, cohesive joke. Blew me away!
Great special if you're not a social justice warrior.
Well his old comedy central show was borderline so. Of course, anything gay or trans related on tv back then was only there to amuse a heavily stereotyped audience....
Actually nvm, tv hasn't changed much
March 24th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
Who cares if his show was borderline so. That was 15 years ago, and we as a society weren't even remotely as PC as it is today. PC culture, especially at universities is why a lot of comedy and comedians are having a much harder time now, and they admit that this is the reason. People could take a joke and realize that a joke is a joke. Hell, go watch hilarious reruns of In Living Color, that show was on network, now that show would only be allowed on cable. The brothers brothers, handi man, vera de milo, men on film, that was some truly funny stuff. Chapelle like South Park was an equal opportunity offender, and I loved his show for that.
Such a refreshing and insightful take!
You know, I think you should go ahead and make thread all about it. The board needs to hear this! Make sure to tag Brian in the title. He's likely to write an article about it if you do!
Hey, that's mighty white of you to say Bp6! You're right as rain too.
I mean, yes, it certainly is perplexing why people would say such things just because you support the Nazi/Klan/Racist/White Nationalist-Supremacist's candidate that supported him because he catered to them, coddled them, pretended not to know who or what they were, and urged his seething with ignorance and 180 degree misplaced rage crowds to physically attack black people and drive them out of his speeches, and offered to pay the legal bills of those who did so, often based on simply assuming what they stood for or why they were there.
Then he turns Kap into a villain for incredibly mildly making a point that needs to be made a thousand times louder, more clearly, more broadly, more deeply, and more forcefully, tying together all the real reasons why and how that system perpetuates, the same way King eventually tried to do, for which he was slaughtered.
Now we pretend to love MLK, vote for a guy who falsely impersonated him, and still ignore his actual content, analysis, prescriptions or demands.
So what Drumph is saying to him, along with everything else he says and does, says fuck you black America, and fuck your problems that we caused and cause every day in every way, We're just gonna support cops and "Law & Order" even more to crack down on you further.
Both worth watching?
Yes.
March 24th, 2017 at 11:00 AM ^
To me, the Austin one was much more funny, but I was probably in a better mood when I watched it since I turned on the LA one after the game last night...
I'll watch these eventually but I have found him to be a lot less funny since he came back from his extended vacation. I'm crossing my fingers.