r/DaveChappelle

Some of my friends shamed me for liking Dave Chappelle as a nonbinary person. So I did my research and found a bunch of clips of Dave defending and supporting the trans community. He called out anti trans legislation, said that trans women are women (indirectly but still implied it nonetheless) and I also showed them daphnes story and they cried a little bit. I was able to convert them into Chappelle fans. I believe that the more people like Dave Chappelle, the better the world will be.

I’ve been seeing a lot of Maga comedians on Instagram reels and I gotta say I have no idea how they have so many followers and supporters. Not only because they have shit views, but their jokes basically amount to “haha liberals dumb” or “Palestine would kill gay people” type shit. Are there any maga comedians that are actually funny or do they not exist?

I’m masculine nonbinary. I’ve suffered from gender dysphoria and bipolar disorder for most of my life. It all came to a head the first month of college where I tried to hang myself. The rope I used snapped and I was really bummed out that it failed. I ended up scrolling through YouTube to try and feel better. That’s when I found a compilation of Dave Chappelle trans jokes. I was prepared for the worst, but what I saw surprised me. Dave fully supports the trans community and has stood up for them on many occasions. His jokes about it really cracked me up and made me smile. Fast forward to today. With the growing anti trans sentiment in America, I’m leaning on Dave to cheer me up and keep the dark thoughts at bay. Thank you Dave. You probably saved my life

Looking back he kinda did just seem mentally exhausted whenever he had public appearances. The reason I think this is cause I recently watched Moon's video about him and my big issue with that video is he constantly uses random celebrity mental breakdowns and them being recommend medications as some higher power controlling when really.... Why can't it be that they are just mentally ill? Being a public figure honestly does seem extremely mentally exhausting, I don't think I could handle that kinda pressure. I do agree that people want control over famous people but I really don't know if early Dave really applied to this, it seems like he is insisting a ton of self importance but really why can't it be that he just had a really big show and got offered the 50m because people saw profit from his show and brand? He says that he wasn't able to get big offers again after that big lets be realistic, why would another huge offer or big role come out of nowhere when he wasn't even that famous compared to tons of other comedians at the time? He talked so badly about the industry and people who offered him money claiming they were trying to control him but never actually goes into that much detail about specifics, the only details he gives is how his agents tried to get him checked in a hospital for mental health reasons and he claims they were lying about this so they could have control over him, but why can't it be that he was actually just suffering from mental issues and doing drugs? Why not sue your agents if they were actually plotting something like this? Even if it was true, wouldn't that more so be an issue with your agents, not the industry as a whole?Millions of people already suffer from mental health issues and do drugs why does he straight up have this attitude like no way that could be me. He goes into detail about that but he will never actually go into detail about what they wanted him to say or not say. He was just a comedian with 1 kinda popular show at the time? Why is it not possible that he was actually crazy and doing drugs and just lied because he wanted people to believe in his world views/narratives about elites?

Lets be realistic, what actually is more likely, that he was using drugs and the pressure of being famous and pressure from people around got to him, of course if you were an agent and one of your clients is turning down 50m you would push for them to accept the deal, especially if it actually is a great deal and there honestly isn't any hard evidence that it wasn't. Agents doing something shady to benefit themselves has clear motive; money. He never actually goes into detail about what he wouldn't be able to joke about, he always makes it so vague.

Or is the more likely outcome that the entire Hollywood industry came after him for turning down a contract and he is now seemingly is one of those elites that he talked so badly against who is accepting money to say what they want him to say?

I am not saying that hollywood and certain groups of people don't want control over people, clearly Saudi's want control over him and lots of other people. But people acting like he was always just way above all these other elites and him acting like he isn't apart of the system is my problem. Maybe everything he is saying is true and if he goes against them they will kill him, but from my perspective, that's just not likely.

One of my employees just said that the restaurant Dave & Busters is owned by Dave Chappelle and Busta Rhymes!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I was crying laughing....