What do Dave Chappelle and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer have in common?
The hairstyle is not, remains little. The answer is then, sorry, not funny at all: Both find people funny, who can not be classified by heteronormative gender categories, because, haha, are normally only man and woman!
Kramp-Karrenbauers carnival joke about toilets for the third sex ("For the men who do not know yet, whether they may still stand while peeing or have to sit") brought the CDU boss in February a Shitstorm.
Chappelle jokes about "the alphabet people" for his new program "Sticks and Stones", which is part of his $ 20 million deal with Netflix, referring to the LGBTQ movement : among other things, he mixed in a stereotypical Chinese parody Trans-Bashing ("I am a Chinese in a black body - but that's how I feel inside.").
It's very easy to find that bad
He, too, got partly destroying on the lid. "Vice" attested to him a "rebellious rejection of any kind of change" and advised to watch the show, the "Guardian" came to the conclusion that Chappelle would probably unlike other comedy legends in his niche as grumpy troll retreat to where everything is predictable and safe.
The reactions were also devastating, because the comedian willingly provides plenty of ammunition: Chappelle is also targeted against women during his 60-minute show ("If women were as much in basketball as men, they would play in the NBA with the men "). And - which caused a lot of criticism - he makes fun of the alleged victims of Michael Jackson.
It's difficult to translate Chappelle's humor-slang into German, but it was a matter of saying that they should not do so, even if it had come to abuse: "I mean - it's still Michael Jackson!" And further: "I am a victim blamer, of course, what did these kids have for clothes?"
It's very easy to find that bad, on the one hand. On the other hand, Chappelle's humor has always included not only hip-hop and black pop culture, but above all experience with racist structures. A comedy program is not good per se , because people feel attacked by it. But to Chappelle's position - his subversive ruckus, his ingenuity - was damned damned to take everything out on stage, because it would give him voluntarily none.
In "Sticks and Stones," Chappelle claims the pose of the sovereign tapper still framed his appearance with lines by Kendrick Lamar: "I'd rather the than listen to you." But the pose works only for a long time as a quote, and eventually no longer, because it does not correspond with the jokes.
On stage, in his jokes, he is about rape victims, women, transgenders, in fact, no longer as a black artist who takes away the interpretive authority that is otherwise withheld from him. If you sort that out, there's a guy who's been brushing on riot because he can not handle the fact that other groups now have something to say too - and, because he's only channeling his own overwork, he's not in a position to do either to produce surprising friction, something that is really controversial rather than just offended.
There is really nothing daring here, even though Chappelle claims it all the time: The announcement "I'll say something now, that I can not say" in front of the Michael Jackson number actually only marks this predictability, as well as the short Choke-back from the spotlight after a saying about vulvas by non-teenage women ("There's no such thing as a good 36-year-old pussy").
Defense of Louis CK
To be fair: Chappelle gets better in the second half of the special, returns to size in a sense, works his way through the opioid crisis, gun violence and racism: "The only difference between a poor white and a poor black is that the white thinks 'It should not happen to him like that.' Smart.
However, after about 60 minutes of "Sticks and Stones", especially Chappelle's defense of his friend Louis CK gets stuck - several women accused the comedian of having masturbated in front of them in 2017, since then there have been several unpleasant comeback attempts.
The question of how to deal with overstretched men and their art, away from punishment and exclusion, is very interesting. But Chappelle just says, "He came on his own stomach, what is the threat?" And further: "This is the least threatening motherfucker the world has ever seen." Well - no.
"Sticks and Stones" at Netflix