Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.

“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).

It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.

That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.

He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.

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    6 months ago

    Wow, it usually takes some knowledge about a subject to come to a conclusion like that.

    But you came to that conclusion without any knowledge at all.

    Just like most of these comments about Dave Chappelle’s latest standup.

    Pretty on brand of you to form an ignorant and severely judgemental conclusion based on little to no information at all.

    You sound like an American Republican.

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        6 months ago

        This whole thread is mostly about beating a Chappell-shaped straw man.

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        6 months ago

        I’ll take comments that show the individual has no idea what they are talking about, for $500, Alex.