Dave Chappelle is addressing his controversial Netflix comedy special “The Closer” following his reviews about the trans neighborhood raised some eyebrows.
The comedian, 48, shared a five-minute online video on Instagram Monday wherever he carried out stand-up and responded to the backlash.
Chappelle said that he will meet with transgender Netflix workers even so, he won’t be “bending to anybody’s calls for.”
“To the transgender local community, I am more than inclined to give you an viewers, but you will not summon me. I am not bending to anyone’s requires,” Chappelle stated in the clip.
“The Closer” led to a walkout at Netflix by transgender employees right after a trans senior software package engineer, Terra Discipline, was suspended for slamming Chappelle on Twitter.
Chappelle seemingly appeared unapologetic about his remarks, expressing, “I reported what I claimed.
“It’s been claimed in the press that I was invited to discuss to the transgender workers of Netflix and I refused. That is not genuine — if they had invited me I would have recognized it, while I am bewildered about what we would be speaking about,” Chappelle continued. “I reported what I said, and boy, I listened to what you reported. My God, how could I not? You stated you want a secure functioning environment at Netflix. It seems like I’m the only just one that just can’t go to the business any more.”
The funnyman ongoing: “And if you want to meet up with with me, I am more than ready to, but I have some disorders … First of all, you are unable to appear if you have not viewed my unique from starting to conclude. You ought to come to a position of my choosing at a time of my picking, and thirdly, you must admit that Hannah Gadsby is not humorous.”
Chappelle went on to explain that “the media frames it that it is me vs . that community, that is not what it is. Do not blame the LBGTQ [sic] community for any of this sh–.
“This has practically nothing to do with [the LGBTQ community]. It is about corporate pursuits and what I can say and what I are not able to say,” Chappelle explained. “For the record, and I have to have you to know this, anyone I know from that local community has been loving and supporting, so I never know what all this nonsense is about.”
Chappelle then unveiled that his upcoming documentary about his summertime 2020 comedy tour has been expelled from film festivals.
“This movie that I produced was invited to every single film pageant in the United States and some of individuals invites I recognized. When this controversy came out about ‘The Closer,’ they began disinviting me from these movie festivals,” the “You’ve Received Mail” star insisted. “And now, currently, not a movie enterprise, not a film studio, not a movie competition, nobody will contact this movie. Thank God for Ted Sarandos and Netflix, he’s the only 1 that didn’t terminate me yet.”
In a memo sent to Netflix workforce previously this thirty day period, Sarandos explained that the streaming company will not consider down the particular. Gadsby blasted Sarandos and Chappelle in excess of their reaction.
“As with our other talent, we function really hard to support their imaginative flexibility — even even though this suggests there will always be content material on Netflix some people imagine is damaging,” the streamer’s CEO wrote.
He went on: “Several of you have also questioned where we draw the line on dislike. We don’t allow for titles [on] Netflix that are designed to incite despise or violence, and we don’t believe that ‘The Closer’ crosses that line.”