Dave Chappelle attacked by man with replica gun at LA comedy festival

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

The comedian Dave Chappelle was attacked during a performance in Los Angeles, according to witnesses and videos of the incident posted online.

Footage showed someone running on stage and tackling Chappelle during his performance at the Netflix Is a Joke festival at Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday night. The incident took place as the comedian was closing the show and thanking earlier performers including Chris Rock, Leslie Jones and Jon Stewart.
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According to Brianna Sacks, a journalist for BuzzFeed News who tweeted about the incident, several security guards punched and kicked the attacker. Video later showed an unidentified man with a badly injured arm being put in an ambulance.
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NBC News Los Angeles reported that the LAPD confirmed they had taken a man into custody and that he was armed with a replica gun “that can eject a knife blade” when discharged correctly. It is unclear if the man tried to use the weapon.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/may/04/dave-chappelle-attacked-by-man-with-replica-gun-at-la-comedy-festival

[Grokenstein]

1. And Chappelle still found a way to be a douchebag.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/04/1096547296/dave-chappelle-video-attacked-onstage-performance-hollywood-bowl-netflix

The comedian appeared to lose his composure momentarily, and later joked: "That was a trans man," a call back to earlier words in his set that suggested he felt attacked by transgender people, and past material that has been criticized as transphobic.

Classy as always.

[milestogo]

2. He's an asshole with a microphone.

[catsudon]

3. violence

is not the answer here.

[The Grand Illuminist]

5. In the assailant's mindset....

He may not have any other choice as a result of Chapelle's Sticks And Stones show. That is if he is a transexual or someone who is very very close to one. So he felt the need to make sacrifice upon himself. Very sad though.

[LiberatedUSA]

4. Good. They gave him a little street justice before he gets criminal justice.

An example had to be made about what will happen to those who attack comedians over their words. This outcome is Will Smith’s fault. Hopefully future examples won’t have to be made.

[CatWoman]

6. when i heard about this story I immediately called it the

Will Smith effect.

And upthread I have no idea why people are attacking/blaming Dave Chappelle for this.

[oldsoftie]

7. Because he touched some nerves over the years. Can't take a joke.

Every time someone does a routine with a little bite we see it.
I think everyone should watch 1 or 2 Comedy Central Roasts. If they could handle it.....

[Dr. Strange]

8. Those roasts can get crazy.

My favorite is Norm Macdonald on the Bob Saget roast. The way he laid into everyone was brutal!

[obamanut2012]

20. "Can't take a joke" -- nice, you are okay with anti LGBT "jokes"

You forgot to call LGBT thin-skinned and too sensitive.

After this guy attacked Chappelle, Chappelle made an anti-trans "joke."

I would ask if that bothered you, but you think such a punching-down piece of vile bigotry is a joke with "bite."

You really should be quite ashamed of yourself. You have defended these "jokes" over and over and over again, even with LGBT rights until threat of annihilation.

This place.

[oldsoftie]

22. Comedy is free speech. I'm OK with just about any joke. Been the butt of many.

One of the best in the world, Don Rickles, made fun of me in the front row many years ago. Ragged on my looks, hair, etc. So what? It was funny. I learned as a child not to let a joke get to me. Don't like them then don't listen to the people who tell them.

I'm not in favor of jokes being made into LAWS.

[obamanut2012]

29. Thank you for admitting this about uourself

I like when you admit you admit bigotry is fine and dandy when you winkwinknusgenudge it wrapped in faux comedy. It makes it easier to know who the people are okay with spitting on our rights.

[oldsoftie]

33. Yes, I admit that I don't want anyone stopping free speech. Even speech I don't like.

And thats what it is. You can wrap yourself in whatever holier-than-thou cloth you like, but thats the bottom-line; in THIS country people can say shit you don't like.
Were you OK with Chappell's jokes about white people? Because he's done bits on them for years. Women? Same. And you probably haven't even listened to his routines on trans people; because he actually supports their rights.

[vercetti2021]

9. And yet

Still managed to take a shot at our community. I have no sympathy for him

[Behind the Aegis]

12. And a further yet...

WE still see how some people equate transphobic jokes as "legitimate" comedy.

[11 Bravo]

14. Is "illegitimate comedy" deserving of assault with a deadly weapon?

Chappelle is an asshole, but I content myself with saying so at every opportunity, and not spending one red cent in support of his hateful rhetoric.

[Behind the Aegis]

16. Did I say it was? Why, no I didn't.

But I also am not going to fail to acknowledge that some here seem to think his transphobia is "legitimate" comedy.

[obamanut2012]

31. Where the hell did bta say that

[vercetti2021]

15. Comedy and being an asshole are completely different

George Carlin for example. That was comedy. Chappelle isn't cracking jokes. He legit complains like an old person would.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

17. Comedy is punching up, not punching down

Carlin was a genius and one of the funniest people ever because he punched up.

Chappelle punching down on the trans community (especially women) is not funny. It's bullying. And if bullying isn't funny elsewhere, why is it funny when it comes to us? Because it comes with a laugh track? Would Drumpf's 4 years in office magically become funny if it came with a laugh track?

That said, I can't applaud the attack, just as I can't applaud Will Smith. Mind you, we have no idea at all if this is over Chappelle's transphobia, or something else. For all we know, someone thought they could have a "viral moment" by going Will Smith on Chappelle. But if this was over his transphobia? I could applaud him if he found a way to get in his face and tell him off-stage how vile he is - with words. Going violent only led to physical harm, along with made the situation worse.

[Mosby]

18. You don't get to decide what comedy is.

Thank God.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

25. How fucking rude

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I suppose you get to decide, huh? So what's next? Us LGBTQ's need to just shut the fuck up again?

[obamanut2012]

32. So, belittling lgbt is fine with you

Including saying tranny and faggot? Good with that, eh? Rape jokes are okay, too.

Thanks for your support. /s

[JosieSD]

23. Carlin had a whole routine on eating disorders

The punchline being “Rich c—t don’t wanna eat…F—k her.”

[AZLD4Candidate]

24. And your point is?

[obamanut2012]

21. In this thread, BTA

In this same thread. Gosh, folks attacked Chapelle because we can't take a joke with a little BITE. DUers say this in this thread. When our rights and lives are literally on the brink of annihilation.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

26. Of course it's our fucking fault

If us goddamned LGBTQ's would just shut the fuck up and take it (lay back and enjoy it?), there would be no issue. Who the hell were we to push back six months ago? Our rights, our safety, our lives are on the line, but, goddamnit, why can't we just take a fucking joke?!



To all the people who can't wait to beat us over the head with Chappelle yet again: Since comedy has no rules and no limits and no boundaries, and everyone should just take a fucking joke: How would Roe v Wade jokes go over right now? How about rape jokes... ever? Holocaust jokes? Slavery jokes?

But it's a-ok to dehumanize trans people and attack LGBTQ's the way he does?

Some things are not funny. Bullying is not funny.

But, I know... Fuck us. We're not even real people anyway.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

27. In this thread

But who the fuck am I to define comedy? "Thank god" for that.

[obamanut2012]

30. Look what was sad to me just upthread

Wtaf

[ZonkerHarris]

10. Thanks Will Smith.

[llashram]

11. comedy is comedy

and NOTHING is sacred. And with the rethuglikkkan mindset vying for the minds of the weak, people who disrespect others are to be shunned unless they are a clear and present danger. Then they must be put down. Get your fe-fe's hurt just leave mofo.

[robbob]

28. Three words:

Andrew Dice Clay.

Vile, crude, disgusting misogynistic jokes. Got attention for a while, shock value I suppose, but in the end had a very short lived career and is now just a footnote in the history of comedy.

Comedians have a right to be not funny. And we have the right to reject them for it. If this is the extent of Chapelles comedy then he, too, will have a short lived career.

[appmanga]

13. I love the photo...

...with Jimmy Carr, who is Ricky Gervais on steroids. I'm fully expecting any day to hear Lenny Bruce is canceled from the grave because he actually said a word my I can't say on this website because context doesn't matter and comedy somehow should be a safe space..

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. Carr's Holocaust "joke" went too far for me

The "joke" is that some people hate Roma people, and they were murdered in the Holocaust, so some people are happy that they were killed. It's not funny, but it seems to be making light of the hatred.