Dave Chappelle is a washington dc originating formerly skinny famous comedian who rose to prominence in the late 90s with rolls in The Nutty Professor (1996) and Half-Baked (1997).

His comedy focused on class struggle, issues of being black in america, being scrawny, pot, and “the culture”. Come 2001 Dave Chappelle and fellow comedian, writer, and friend Neal Brennan pitched a show to Viacom owned cable channel Comedy Central that would earn him A list international star power. A variety sketch comedy show called The Chappelle Show was an instant success and shot him to be the highest paid comedy variety show creators at the time with Neal Brennan.

The show played up on tropes of black culture poking fun at the issue of race and money and celebrity culture while being black. The show would also have famous but underrepresented black musical acts that dave would introduce in between pre recorded sketches in front of a live studio audience. Famous sketches included Pretty White Girls Sings Dave’s Thoughts, A depiction of Dave playing Samuel L Jackson as spokesman of a Sam Adams IPA beer commercial, a commercial for a financial and wealth management company ran by east coast rap group The Wu Tang Clan, a satirical over the top violent depiction of typical seen as squeaky clean performer Wayne Brady played by Wayne Brady, What if rapper Lil’ Jon was going deaf, comedian/ actor Charlie Murphy’s True Hollywood Stories on the musician Prince and Rick James, and most famous and frequently cited in political discussions a parody of PBS investigative journalism show Frontline doing an expose on Clayton Bigsby: a prominent blind black white supremacist klan member played by dave at absurd comical cultural satire level.

But during the second season Dave was struck with doubt. In an interview from 2010 Dave recalled seeing an old white gentleman laughing too hard in the audience during a skit about slavery. This caused Dave to have an existential crisis in which in the middle of production for the new season Dave walked away from the show. The show went on with frequent show performers Charlie Murphy and Donnell Rawlings taking over as hosts for the taped audience portions.

During this time Chappelle traveled to Africa, made rich by one of the highest rated shows on tv. But with worry he had done something that might have made race relations worse in america. In particular the nature of white kids now wanting to say the N word for comical reasons. This is from his own stand up he would do as he slowly came back. But also during this time he moved to Cleveland Ohio area and built a private compound home. He also went from being super skinny and slouching to ripped and thick muscular build. He was close friends with other famous black performers like Kayne West and showed up in several videos Kayne filmed expressing his sanity after his mother’s passing.

But the issue with Dave that hit people hardest was when he finally came back with a $20 million 6 special deal with Netflix starting in 2016. In these specials the world was fully introduced to a now more subdued and now swole version of Dave. Previously more animated Dave had aged visibly snd became slower and more cagey with his humor and performance and with that age came old people thinking. His specials had a several jokes about transgender people. Historically a touchy subject in the black community but also was the start of LGBT liberation as a black transgender man and women were key figures in the famous Stonewall Inn Gay Riots in New York in 1969.

Black transgender women though are the highest victims of gay panic murders. Dave told jokes that didn’t punch up at that oppression but punched down. And when called out for it he double down and became a hero for the right wing conservatives that once hated him for humor that in many ways would be labeled by them critical race theory today.

This was the new Chappelle. Old and rich Dave buddied up with other rich people he knew in particular other transphobic and bigoted people. Culminating in an 2022 Saturday Night Live opening monologue in which he defended the recent antisemitism of Kanye West, further doubling down on it and promoting his own Antisemitism on a world stage platform of the Comcast NBC Universal owned and Hulu streamed SNL .

Lastly just this last week when Dave was performing at a tour stop in San Francisco he invited homophobic transphobic oligarch racism loving Elon Musk on the show’s arena stage. This was met by a 15 minute booing of Elon, to which Dave responded saying that the people booing Elon were doing it because they were poor and had bad seats. Showing Dave to be what is commonly called “a class traitor” but not really because this is the new Chappelle, and he’s not poor and black and scrawny and energetic like he used to be to punch up at power for he is an oligarch now. So now he punches down for his comedy as he is now out of touch since people like Elon is who he will defend after shit like this

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesla-employees-fremont-plant-racism-california-lawsuit

So this is a queer nonbinary kid, making bread, and the instructions say punch down, so they play an introduction to dave doing comedy somewhere

Because Dave is,” I’m rich bitch, so fuck’em” as his entire personality now.