Dave Chappelle Netflix special “What’s in a Name” quietly released on streaming giant Friday following a controversial year for the stand-up comedian.
Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what clicked this week in entertainment.from Dave Chappelle was released under the radar on Friday through the streaming giant, and focused on a speech he gave at his alma mater after declining the offer from the school to rename the theater after him following his transphobic joke controversy., last November was the primary focus of the latest show available from Netflix and Chappelle,"What’s in a Name.
"It would be like if you were reading a newspaper and they say, ‘Man Shot In The Face By a Six-Foot Rabbit Expected To Survive,’ you’d be like, ‘Oh my god,’ and they never tell you it’s a Bugs Bunny cartoon."Chappelle graduated from the school in 1991, and returned in November for a surprise visit, where students thought he would be apologizing for insensitive remarks made in"The Closer.
He added:"And these kids didn’t understand that they were instruments of oppression. And I didn’t get mad at them. They’re kids. They’re freshmen. They’re not ready yet. They don’t know." "I'm 16 and I think you're childish, you handled it like a child," a student said, adding that Chappelle is a"bigot," Politico Playbook reported at the time after speaking to attendees of the event.
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