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Originally Posted by Direckshun
I love offensive humor if it has a fun angle on it, and Chappelle again knocks it out of the park on this, except in a couple places.
The angle that Louis CK's abuse wasn't that bad is just misogynistic bullshit. And I expect misogyny in comedy but that's so damn ridiculous I'm shocked Dave was that lazy to argue it.
I'm also not interested in re-litigating Michael Jackson's accusers potentially lying, because the fact that Michael Jackson treated them well aside from sexual exploitation is a joke that's been made on SNL since Norm McDonald.
The LGBT sharing a car bit was inspired. Most of the special was, and it has the odd perspectives and hilarious angles that you expect from him.
But those are two lazy-ass jokes that are so asinine, I'm irked they even graced his special.
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I dunno on the CK thing. You are pressing a pretty fine edge when the narrative is that someone asks you to do something and you participate out of a vague sense of comparative power in your industry, particularly when it's as lone-wolf an industry as a travelling comic.
And the 'prosecution' of the matter is simply a change in the social currency of the individual in question.
This isn't a matter of coercion or quid pro quo, and we never got a forum where we actually delved into the specifics of what possible implicit or soft power CK may have exerted.
The whole thing stinks of excessive narrative construction after the fact.
Some see a powerful comic 'imposing' his good graces in order to engage in 'perverted' acts.
It is just as plausible to see a lonely schlub away from home reaching out to compatible colleagues for potential mutual release.