‘From the folks that brought you 9/11’
American comedy is embroiled in a war of words over the Riyadh Comedy Festival
Dave chappelle
Thursday
Thursday
Why SNL 50 bombed in the ratings
Further evidence that boomers can’t let go
Tuesday
Speaking truth to antisemitism
Jews are a unique group. We have been chased around for millennia
Monday
Elon Musk loudly booed on stage at Dave Chappelle gig
Real life doesn’t have a block button
Monday
How Netflix saved comedy
It saturated the market with comics who are on opposite sides of the culture wars
Wednesday
Ricky Gervais, Netflix and clickbait controversy
Audiences are increasingly wise to knee-jerk manipulation
Friday
Netflix changes woke course after Chappelle attack
They went woke and now they’re going broke
Thursday
When ‘words are violence’ turns to actual violence
The trans community makes a preemptive attack against Dave Chappelle
Thursday
Netflix’s Chappelle of hate
Netflix received only a thousand or so complaints about a special watched by millions
Saturday
The rush to cancel old Halloween costumes
Suddenly an un-PC photo from a party in the 1980s is a weapon
Friday
The PR campaign at the heart of the war on Netflix
Dave Chappelle’s critics aren’t asking for censorship. They want reparations
Thursday
Dave Chappelle’s last special is no masterpiece
The comic has developed the irritating habit of emphasizing how transgressive he is being
Wednesday
Rotten Tomatoes and the cultural gap between critics and audiences
Dave Chappelle’s special shows just how wide it can be
Sunday
Louis C.K. pulls it off
Funny is money
Monday
The mythic rise of the celebrity dissident
The public dissent of some stars is not really the sign of a backlash against bad ideas
Thursday
Dave Chappelle plumbs new depths of tastelessness in his new Netflix special
I loved every second of it
