tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717391956014930517.post7270333229534736476..comments2023-08-02T06:53:38.730-07:00Comments on The Civil Rights Movement: Dave Chappelle's DilemmaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717391956014930517.post-66200381658238343222010-12-11T01:06:56.351-08:002010-12-11T01:06:56.351-08:00Chapelle Show is still by far the funniest thing I...Chapelle Show is still by far the funniest thing I have ever seen. Because we weren't allowed to watch it, my brother and I would have to sneak into our guest room, turn the volume way down, and then laugh until we cried. What wasn't so funny was the next day at school when our white friends would quote all of the terrible things Chapelle said as he played a blind, black, white-supremacist. Racial jokes can be funny when making fun of one's own race because it is understood that the comedian doesn't really mean what he says. When one race makes fun of another, that's when things might get offensive. I can understand Chapelle's problem with being uncomfortable with the amount of racist jokes in his show, but I still feel that he could have continued on making jokes about marijuana, Prince, and Rick James.AndrewMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15063862888287723306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717391956014930517.post-56232533916857749592010-12-10T12:41:15.831-08:002010-12-10T12:41:15.831-08:00I have not watched a whole lot of the Dave Chapell...I have not watched a whole lot of the Dave Chapelle show, but when I have, to me it's been pretty funny. However there are instances where maybe he does go a little too far. Perhaps if he just based more of his show not on racial comedy, but on another subject it could help out a little bit. I'm not saying he should completely cut race out of his act, I think making jokes about a controversial issue such as race can help to take some of the pressure off of the subject. However he has to draw the line somewhere.Cade.Grigsby.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06854512906283053010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717391956014930517.post-70526372949312982092010-12-09T22:19:09.994-08:002010-12-09T22:19:09.994-08:00Until this school year, I had never seen or really...Until this school year, I had never seen or really heard of the Dave Chapelle Show. The first time I watched it, I was shocked at the jokes he was making. Joking about race seems like a double edged sword, because there is a fine line between appropriateness and offensiveness. It's always interesting to me that people are able to make jokes about their own race or ethnicity, but become instantly offended when another person (who does not a have a similar background) makes a joke of the similar nature.Margauxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08901718986950960922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3717391956014930517.post-55832067662406011932010-12-09T21:29:04.130-08:002010-12-09T21:29:04.130-08:00I agree that comedy is an area where we can someti...I agree that comedy is an area where we can sometimes go farther than we should concerning uncomfortable issues such as racism. I've always thought that Dave Chapelle is hilarious but I found that it was interesting that the article talked about how he was uncomfortable with how a white man was laughing at his jokes. I think a reason we laugh at controversial jokes is because they're a bit unexpected and push limits we normally never would. I do think, however that on his show he enforced both black and white stereotypes with his impressions in order to get more of a reaction from his audience.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04128300348370795007noreply@blogger.com