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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    11 months ago

    He walked because he had a mental breakdown…

    In his own words a white crew guy laughed at a comedy skit they were filming. Lots of white people watched his show and laughed at the skits

    Dave got famous real quick. He played a likable character in Half Baked and next thing you know he was a household name with a giant TV show.

    No one really knew anything about what kind of person he was, good chance he was always shitty.

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      11 months ago

      his jokes were always heavily “black people be like this, white people be like that” so he was always a bit overrated. It just sucks he learned so little from his experiences.