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# The Power of Dave Chappelle’s Comedy
- URL: https://werd.io/the-power-of-dave-chappelles-comedy/
- Published: 2021-10-24T22:35:38.000Z
- Updated: 2021-10-24T22:35:38.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“Onstage, he refers to himself as the man who walked away from fifty million dollars, but the credibility he derived from that act sixteen years ago is now being deployed defensively and cynically, as if to place above suspicion any possible motive for telling denigrating jokes about trans people. He is also the man who walked into a reported sixty-million-dollar Netflix deal.”

\[[Link](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/01/the-power-of-dave-chappelles-comedy-netflix-the-closer)\]