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Watch: Dave Chappelle Attacked On Stage By Armed Man

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

Comedian Dave Chappelle was tackled on stage Tuesday by a man who was reportedly armed with a gun and a knife. Chappelle was not harmed during the incident and later joked that it ā€œwas a trans manā€ who rushed the stage.

Chappelle was performing at theĀ Netflix Is A JokeĀ festival in Los Angeles at The Hollywood Bowl when a clearly deranged person managed to lunge into him.

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The guy was reportedly quickly detained and by all accounts had the shit kicked out of him by Chappelleā€™s entourage and Chappelle himself:

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Comedy Gold: The Jokeā€™s on You

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

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This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of Godā€¦

– 2 Timothy 3:1-4

 

As an internet writer seeking common ground, or, rather, a mutual base frame of reference with the readers, Iā€™ll often use widely disseminated resources in order to inspire contemplation and conversation. Obviously, these sources would include movies and books. Ā So, with that in mind, I recently took advantage of $5 Tuesdays at a theater near me and saw ā€œJokerā€. Ā Ā The antagonist of the film, of course, is Batmanā€™s old arch nemesis, ā€œThe Jokerā€.

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She Was Asking For It

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

They cry out in pain as they strike you.

Via The New Republic

The ā€œCancel Cultureā€ Con

On April 1, 1964, Herbert Ruhe, an ex-CIA agent formerly stationed in Vietnam, submitted a surveillance report to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney about a person of interest to city officials. On the basis of the material Ruhe had gathered the previous night, four policemen were sent to tape the suspect that evening, and a garbled transcript of what they recorded was made available to a twenty-three member grand jury the next day. The grand jury, considering the evidence laid before them, recommended the suspectā€™s prosecution on charges that, collectively, carried a maximum sentence of nine years in jail.

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Sticks And Stones: A Cocktail Napkin Review

Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer

“I can’t live in this world you’re proposing…”

-Dave Chapelle

For purposes of full disclosure I have never worked with Dave Chappelle and though we were both signed with the same agency at the same time we rarely crossed paths on the road. We’d worked showcase clubs in NYC but I’ll admit that I was never impressed with his lackadaisical comedy stylings and his reputation for being a no-show or showing up late and pissing off the crowd only to walk off early. I considered his behavior bad form and his brand of humor lazy so I never paid much attention as his star rose, never watched his show or any of his subsequent work after that.

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Dave Chappelle: The Middle Finger America Needs

Guest Post by Chris Stigall

Dave Chappelle: The Middle Finger America Needs

These days Iā€™m prone to measure my support for something, not in terms of whether or not I personally like or support it, but rather, Iā€™m almost always drawn to anything todayā€™s popular culture tells me Iā€™m supposed to hate.Ā Therefore, this week Iā€™m cheering comedian Dave Chappelleā€™s new Netflix standup special ā€œSticks and Stones.ā€

Full disclosure: I havenā€™t even watched it yet .I promise I will and I hope you will too.Ā Not because weā€™re going to agree with everything Chappelle says.Ā Itā€™s precisely because we donā€™t HAVE to agree with everything he says.Ā More to the point, thatā€™s exactly what heā€™s celebrating. ā€œOffensiveā€ is in the eye of the scolder.Ā Comedy ā€“ if done well -ā€“ isnā€™t something to be consumed and enjoyed in lockstep.

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