Rush to watch American comedian Dave Chappelle’s latest show on Netflix, titled The Dreamer.
I haven’t laughed so much in a long time.
No stranger to controversy, Chappelle makes fun of gays, transgender people, disabled people, all minorities, everyone.
Targets
When he singles out minorities, we understand, if we have two cents of subtlety, that his real targets are the hypersensitivity, the ultra-susceptibility, the unbearable moral complacency of all these constipated people for whom it is awful to make the slightest joke about it.
Chappelle’s real targets are the little priests of wokism who are scandalized over nothing.
“I love punching down,” says Chappelle, himself an African-American who refuses to play the victim.
It’s his way of responding to everyone who says that a comedian should only target those above him, therefore the powerful.
A great comedian is someone who takes risks.
See us. What risks are there in criticizing Legault, Drainville, Trudeau? None.
Will they unleash their pack on you via social media, take you to court, threaten you physically, try to ruin your career? No.
Why do you think that the texts of bye are scrutinized by lawyers?
To avoid all this.
The problems, they know, would not come from the governments of Quebec and Canada, accustomed to criticism, but from the ultra-sensitive lobbies who can poison your existence.
This is why the bye has become so boring. Because he is wise, prudent, conformist, zero risk-taking.
Where are our comedians who dare to take real risks?
Please don’t tell me about Sugar Sammy. Its favorite target is the French-speaking people of Quebec, the most accommodating, the most “good-natured”, the least nasty group on the planet.
Accommodating to the point that many like to be laughed at to comfort themselves with the idea that they are admirably open-minded.
Netflix knew that airing Chappelle’s show would expose it to criticism.
Review The Economist reports that Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, warned employees:
“There will be things that you may think are hurtful. But we try to offer entertainment in a world where different tastes, different sensibilities, different values coexist.”
It is not the cowards who run Radio-Canada – who go to bed after a single complaint – who would dare to say that and stand up.
Among all the diversity idolized by Radio-Canada, diversity of opinions is missing.
Certainty
Obviously, the United States is a large enough country to accept anything.
Quebec is a small society. There is therefore less space for the refusal of ideological conformism.
At the end of his show, Chappelle says, “You can get drunk with this feeling of always being right.”
Our whole era is in this sentence.