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Dave Chapelle shows us why we need more jokes

4 September 2019

8:04 PM

4 September 2019

8:04 PM

Dave Chapelle’s new Netflix Special ‘Sticks and Stones’ could offend just about everybody. There are racist stereotypes, homophobic and transphobic punchlines, cracks at Michael Jackson’s accusers — the works. Predictably, he’s come under fire. A few critics have claimed that their objections aren’t born from being ‘triggered’ but simply from Chapelle missing the mark.

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