Many have taken sides, but TheWrap sought out the opinions of people who can see the special from both a comedic and LGBTQ perspective. He also likens LGBTQ people to passengers on a long road trip who don’t always get along.Īlso Read: Bradley Cooper, Jon Stewart, Tiffany Haddish to Honor Dave Chappelle at Kennedy Center In “Sticks & Stones,” Chappelle goes after many unexpected targets, including the men who’ve accused Michael Jackson of molesting them as children. But Chappelle has caught criticism from some viewers who think he’s punching down, targeting people who historically haven’t been given a voice in comedy or society at large. But otherwise, I didn’t think it was a terribly mean-spirited performance.”īy nature, comedy specials mix truth with jokes that aren’t meant to be taken seriously. I wouldn’t put that level of censorship on anyone,” Grillo told TheWrap.īut she didn’t love a joke in which a character isn’t sure what pronoun to use for trans people: “I guess the most offensive joke I would say, personally, was the joke about the LGBT people in the car, and when he says, ‘Oh, yes, hi, whatever pronoun you’re comfortable with.’ That kind of rankled me a little bit. “I wouldn’t say you shouldn’t make jokes about Michael Jackson, or you shouldn’t make jokes about trans people unless you’re trans, or you shouldn’t make jokes about school shootings unless you’ve been in a school shooting. But as a trans woman, she said one of his jokes “rankled” her a little bit. As a comedian, she thinks Chappelle should be free to joke about anything. Alison Grillo can see both sides of the debate around Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix stand-up special, “Sticks & Stones,” which has been criticized for jokes about LGBTQ people.
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