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Donomark posted...

He can be funny, no doubt, but I always thought he was overrated, even going back to the Chappelle's Show. I don't really understand why that show was the breakout hit that it was.

I have kind of a unique experience with that, I was hanging with a regular bunch of guys that were very diverse I was taking classes with, and we all loved Chappelle show - but also we were stoned out of our minds and in our 20s watching it and busting each other's balls at the racial humor.

In retrospect, knowing he had much funnier writers like Bill Burr working on the show it makes more sense. As a stand up, I tend not to like that pretentious storyteller style unless the comic is really good at it. The anti-trans stuff which is the source of a lot of controversy now is just... not well constructed as humor. It comes off more like cheap pops to get a self-righteous crowd that agrees with him to clap.

Now... I still believe Chappelle is a talented comic and entertainer, which is more than I can say for his Half-Baked co-star Jim Bruer... his anti-vax routine is the saddest and most desperate shit I ever heard, worse than his usual brain dead material.