Damon Wayans is calling fellow comedian Dave Chappelle a “unicorn” in the comedic arena. Dave Chapelle has caused a major wave of emotion amongst social groups throughout his career. His latest victims being the transgender community.
From one freedom fighter to another
Wayans says Chappelle is also a freedom fighter. “I feel like Dave freed the slaves. Yeah, the comedians,” a masked Wayans, 61, told TMZ. “We were slaves to PC culture and he just, you know — as an artist he’s Van Gogh. He cut his ear off. He’s trying to tell us it’s okay.”
Damon Wayans has seen his share of comedians being cancelled due to controversial commentary. Wayans is indeed a seasoned comedian. Notably his run on the hit 90″s show, In Living Color, became a show of “firsts” for African-Americans in comedy. Similar to Chapelle, Wayans, along with others from his famed family, walked off their show at its most popular time.
The reason, a new team of “consultants” whose focus was to culturally appropriate the show in hopes to steer in a new audience. His brother Keenan Wayans spearheaded their exit from the popular show saying, “”What I did was just stand up,” he says. ”I told those people that what they were doing was wrong.”
Backing Dave
Netflix has backed Chapelle’s, “The Closer” in the midst of its controversial stance. The company on Monday suspended three employees who crashed an executive meeting. Netflix worker, Terra Field fired off a series of tweets addressing Chapelle’s comments during his final installment with Netflix. Netflix has expressed that although Field expressed openly her stance on the show, she was not suspended due to this, but other reasons.
Being trans is actually pretty funny, if you’re someone who actually knows about the subject matter. How could volunteering for a second puberty *not* be funny? That isn’t what he is doing though. Our existence is ‘funny’ to him – and when we object to his harm, we’re “offended”.
Netflix has expressed that although Field expressed openly her stance on the show, she was not suspended due to this, but other reasons.
What he does wanna talk about is a phenomenon he perceives — that one is NOT truly free in the U.S. anymore on the issue of speech, and he sees that as the real issue we need to dissect.
Chappelle has made it clear he will not prostitute his gift becoming the epitome of “stand for something or fall for anything.”
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