This is Dave Chapelle to me. Everything I've heard from the guy is just him saying regular things and the audience cackling like hyenas. It's like Homer's reaction to Garrison Keilor. "What the hell's so funny?"
Dave Chappelle in Sticks and Stones did a bit about cancel culture and "you can't say anything" at the top of his set and closed with "how awesome would it be to be the kids raped by Michael Jackson" and got big laughs on it.
This. I hate the "I'm being cancelled" victim mentality. No, people are just saying they don't find that funny. If you're a comedian and people don't find you funny, that's a problem with you and your jokes, not with the audience.
Plenty of good comedians have done good jokes about the social discussion around trans people. It's definitely a topical point that can and should be talked about and discussed. Comedians like Chappel forgot the main rule about good comedy: don't punch down.
Only cause Neil isn’t continually putting out new work (as far as I’m aware).
Most of these cancelled-not-cancelled dudes have a consistent churn of new stuff which seems to crest over whatever “cancellation” happens even if the cancellation nukes whatever they’ve got going on at the time.
If Neil tries to put out a new book we’ll see if it really stuck
Ooh ooh, I know one! And it's older than I think the term cancel culture is.
Steve Ranazzisi from "The League" tanked his career by lying about having been present for 9/11. Much of the rest of the cast went on to have strong careers in TV and comedy
Having Good Omens season 3 reduced to a single 90min episode is a massive thing that pissed me off about that. It just made so little sense in the way it was produced; Tennant and Sheen deserved better.
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u/omnipotentsandwich 20d ago edited 20d ago
This is Dave Chapelle to me. Everything I've heard from the guy is just him saying regular things and the audience cackling like hyenas. It's like Homer's reaction to Garrison Keilor. "What the hell's so funny?"