thehumanityy
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So my girlfriend sucks at eating, and i found this movie on a whim. I had no idea what I was in for! I mean, the movie was terrible, like reallyyy terrible, but this guy's invention was genius! I'd buy a crumb catcher from this guy in alllll 50 states!
Zippitoy boppity flippity doo, i need more required characters, but how about you!!!??
Alright, i guess add more. I really do like the crumb catcher idea. You have no idea how aggravating it is to have someone who eats in your bed. Like there should reallllyyy be an invention to deal with people like this. Some day I'm gonna have a mental breakdown. Fin.
Zippitoy boppity flippity doo, i need more required characters, but how about you!!!??
Alright, i guess add more. I really do like the crumb catcher idea. You have no idea how aggravating it is to have someone who eats in your bed. Like there should reallllyyy be an invention to deal with people like this. Some day I'm gonna have a mental breakdown. Fin.
First I just want to say that Dave Chappelle has been my favorite stand-up comedian for decades. Killin' Them Softly might be the greatest stand-up of all time, and there's a ton of great stand-up in the databanks to choose from. Even over 20 years later, he's still one of the most naturally funny people in the business, however, his themes and what made his old stand-up so great to begin with seems to have taken a weird turn and the focus now is what incidentally sucks a lot of oxygen out of the humor.
Let me just ask what comedian legends like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and 90s Dave all have in common? The answer is they focused on making jokes on a screwed up system and punching upward with their comedy. George Carlin would rail against the elites & talk about how you ain't in the club, Pryor would talk about the media and cultural stereotypes of "dangerous black men", and old Dave would talk about cops sprinkling crack on black men to cover their own asses for being trigger happy.
Fast forward to today and now Dave can't seem to let go of overly focusing his jokes on a group of people that are arguably just as marginalized in today's culture as young black men were in the 1990s. In other words, his focus completely switched from punching up to now punching down & his comedy has really taken a hit for it in my opinion.
It's completely subjective whether it's any or all still funny or not, even when Dave's most recent stand-up seems to be more resembling targeted social commentary and personal outrage than any semblance of jokes all in good fun, but it's hard not to see the effects this has on him when you juxtapose Killin' Them Softly to The Closer and how they differ and why. I think the jokes in earlier specials started out funny and all in good fun, but he's let a few people's criticism take him down something of a rabbit hole, where he's now letting his personal feelings get in the way and his jokes have unintentionally (or intentionally) become more mean-spirited because of it.
Again, I would argue Dave is still one of the most naturally funny comedians out there, but that's why I would argue the quality of his stand-up has suffered not because of his comedy chops but because of what's he's focusing on nowadays and how it's a topic that I think most of us would wish he'd just let it go and go back to being the Dave everyone could laugh with, & even when he's making fun of white people or Asians, we're all laughing our asses off cause we know it's just jokes in good fun and there's no negative feelings underneath it.
Let me just ask what comedian legends like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and 90s Dave all have in common? The answer is they focused on making jokes on a screwed up system and punching upward with their comedy. George Carlin would rail against the elites & talk about how you ain't in the club, Pryor would talk about the media and cultural stereotypes of "dangerous black men", and old Dave would talk about cops sprinkling crack on black men to cover their own asses for being trigger happy.
Fast forward to today and now Dave can't seem to let go of overly focusing his jokes on a group of people that are arguably just as marginalized in today's culture as young black men were in the 1990s. In other words, his focus completely switched from punching up to now punching down & his comedy has really taken a hit for it in my opinion.
It's completely subjective whether it's any or all still funny or not, even when Dave's most recent stand-up seems to be more resembling targeted social commentary and personal outrage than any semblance of jokes all in good fun, but it's hard not to see the effects this has on him when you juxtapose Killin' Them Softly to The Closer and how they differ and why. I think the jokes in earlier specials started out funny and all in good fun, but he's let a few people's criticism take him down something of a rabbit hole, where he's now letting his personal feelings get in the way and his jokes have unintentionally (or intentionally) become more mean-spirited because of it.
Again, I would argue Dave is still one of the most naturally funny comedians out there, but that's why I would argue the quality of his stand-up has suffered not because of his comedy chops but because of what's he's focusing on nowadays and how it's a topic that I think most of us would wish he'd just let it go and go back to being the Dave everyone could laugh with, & even when he's making fun of white people or Asians, we're all laughing our asses off cause we know it's just jokes in good fun and there's no negative feelings underneath it.
