Is. Dave Chappelle a comedian or something else?

[CosmiComic]

Im a huge John Wayne fan. His movie El Dorado is my favorite Western of all time. I watch it with my dad a couple times a month. but If they want to take his name off the airport it wouldnt bother me. There are other figures it could be named after.

We don't really need to name anything after people anyway, and if we do, changing it isn't wrong. The past isn't some sacred cow we need to protect at the expense of present feelings

[babyblob]

We don't really need to name anything after people anyway, and if we do, changing it isn't wrong. The past isn't some sacred cow we need to protect at the expense of present feelings

I agree with his. Heck more then half of the buildings named after people I have no idea who they are anyway. I get if the person has a connection to the place that is named. Like the J Edgar Hoover FBI building. But an airport named after a star of a western? What is the point? Who cares one way or the other. I would bet half of the people who are yelling for his name to be taken off the airport didnt even know there was one named after him till someone made a fuss and they jumped on board.

[GOLGO 13]

We don't really need to name anything after people anyway, and if we do, changing it isn't wrong. The past isn't some sacred cow we need to protect at the expense of present feelings

Truth here.

Loving all these traitorous confederate monuments getting yanked & thrown in a basement somewhere to be eventually destroyed. What's more delicious is all the fake whining about "mah heritage" that nobody is buying or respecting.

****-on out of here Adolf.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

I agree with his. Heck more then half of the buildings named after people I have no idea who they are anyway. I get if the person has a connection to the place that is named. Like the J Edgar Hoover FBI building. But an airport named after a star of a western? What is the point? Who cares one way or the other. I would bet half of the people who are yelling for his name to be taken off the airport didnt even know there was one named after him till someone made a fuss and they jumped on board.

That sadly is how it goes at times. A lot of people didn't care or knew for years. They'd see John Wayne Airport (which I never knew one was named after him either) and once the comments became really known there was anger. I like some John Wayne films like a lot of folks. I never held the guy to the standards of some of his films. I know many do that.

[Immortal Weapon]

I don't understand people who look to celebrities to be a moral compass. Their jobs is to entertain and some times inspire but never as a shining example to live by.

[phonogram12]

Fox News is defending Chapelle.

[thwhtGuardian]

Fox News is defending Chapelle.

Of course they would...and I'm so glad CBR edits out Faux News!

[phonogram12]

Of course they would...and I'm so glad CBR edits out Faux News!

Ha! Just noticed that!

[Mace Dolex]

He got burnt out. Plus he realized that a lot of the audience wasn't getting some of the jokes.

Could it be because they weren't funny?

[skyvolt2000]

Fox News is defending Chapelle.

Of course it fits their agenda.

Groups like them pick what part fits an agenda.

[ZuLuLu]

He got burnt out. Plus he realized that a lot of the audience wasn't getting some of the jokes.

The irony of this whole situation is that Chapelle said that one of the reasons he left the show was that he felt some crew members laughed at him rather than with him so he began to wonder if is his show satirized racial stereotypes or reinforce them, so clearly he knows that a joke even if funny could be demeaning.

To answer the question he's a comedian but also a storyteller.

[Mister Mets]

Of course, he's a comedian.

He may also do other stuff.

Whatever we use to describe him should be based on neutral principles that would apply to other people.

If you think his last special was too serious or wasn't funny or whatever, the criteria to decide that he's not a comedian should apply to anyone else described as a comedian. There is an argument that Hannah Gabsby (not a fan of Chapelle's latest) did something that isn't comedy in her special "Nanette," so I can understand this logic applying to Chapelle as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/a...y-nanette.html

[CosmiComic]

Truth here.

Loving all these traitorous confederate monuments getting yanked & thrown in a basement somewhere to be eventually destroyed. What's more delicious is all the fake whining about "mah heritage" that nobody is buying or respecting.

****-on out of here Adolf.

Exactly. Even some Union and other statues should be torn down because of how they treated Native Americans. I mean, why do these people act like their feelings should be protected but everyone else is somehow too sensitive?

[CosmiComic]

I agree with his. Heck more then half of the buildings named after people I have no idea who they are anyway. I get if the person has a connection to the place that is named. Like the J Edgar Hoover FBI building. But an airport named after a star of a western? What is the point? Who cares one way or the other. I would bet half of the people who are yelling for his name to be taken off the airport didnt even know there was one named after him till someone made a fuss and they jumped on board.

I don't think both sides are the same though. Of course people are going to be mad at honoring a bigoted person, especially when society doesn't care about those groups the individuals in question are bigoted against.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Chappelle in 2017 or 2018 in an interview has claimed he was gonna go back to the show after leaving awhile. But what stopped it was Comedy Central aired the episodes he wasn't happy with.

This ended their working together after it.