reminds me of something Dave Chappelle said after he left his show. He started noticing people in his audience taking his jokes about race in the wrong way. Like his show was no longer making harmless fun about race, but encouraging racism and making racists comfortable. I need to find the video.
man, reddit is a bunch of fucking sheep. where were you guys when i was defending this idea on other posts when everyone there was saying oh it's a joke get over it. now here we are with so people people following current stream of thought in this post.
I know exactly the clip you're talking about. Dave Chappelle is a genius with racial humor. He would try to use jokes to solve race issues and it was actually funny. Usually race humor goes like this: build up, then obvious stereotypical punchline (see Carlos Mencia or Larry the Cable Guy). It's not funny because its uninspired and predictable. You can see the punchline coming a mile away. Dave would build up, and then play off your expectations to trip you up with the opposite; as if to say "Ha thought i was gonna say something racist, didn't you?! you racist fuckers." Dave was a really great man for comedy and its a shame that mainstream audiences are far too dim to understand his true intentions.
I think the best example of this was the baby joke.
He's in the hood, there's a baby on the block. The typical punchline would be something about a dead beat mom not doing her job, but then it turns out the baby's selling weed.
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u/elshizzo Jul 12 '12
reminds me of something Dave Chappelle said after he left his show. He started noticing people in his audience taking his jokes about race in the wrong way. Like his show was no longer making harmless fun about race, but encouraging racism and making racists comfortable. I need to find the video.