From WSJopinion: Dave Chappelle made a career pushing the envelope, but his material—including the N-word—is no longer edgy, writes jasonrileywsj
I had three major takeaways from comic Dave Chappelle’s most recent Netflix special. The first was that his comedy has lost something. The flourishes are still there but less frequent. The observations are still amusing but less reliably insightful. Mr. Chappelle has made a career out of pushing the envelope, but his Michael Jackson pedophile bits aren’t edgy. They’re just icky.
A second takeaway was that black offense at use of the N-word is so much playacting. Mr. Chappelle spends an hour incessantly and gratuitously ramming...
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