David Chappelle's anti-trans jokes seem to stem from a deeply personal kind of resentment—for Ricky Gervais, it's just business as usual.
that Gervais has nothing new to add to the cultural conversation. His only novel material, the only relevant topic he can muster any willpower to comment on, targets trans people. He tells these jokes in an attempt to stay relevant to a comedy community that has outgrown him; seeing him go through the motions is like watching a silent-movie star give her all in a talkie, to no avail.
In some ways, the opposite is true of Chappelle. Unlike Gervais, Chappelle appears to feel that he—like Gervais, a successful, multimillionaire comedian—is the real victim in the ongoing culture wars between himself and his critics, a war that places trans people and Black people in opposition to one another. InChappelle makes clear that he believes society values Black men less than it values the queer community.
Like Gervais, Chappelle attempted to persuade the audience into believing that he isn’t really homophobic, telling a story about meetingat the Met Gala and claiming to be a fan of the young, Black, queer artist before telling jokes at his expense. But rather than leaving the queer community alone, Chappelle dug his heels in, describing his frustration—his hurt—about what had “happened to him” because of the queer community.
Ultimately, the depressing thing about Chappelle is how talented he is—how he maintains the ability to craft a funny, relevant joke. When he turns the lens away from the queer community and onto himself—as he did in a riff about filing an order of protection against a racist intruder on his property—he’s still intelligent, irreverent, groundbreaking. But with every special and, he seems to stray further away, driven not by comedic impulse but by vendetta. It feels like he’s been radicalized.
This is not to say that Chappelle and Gervais’s comedy doesn’t overlap at all. Both of them really enjoy talking about how rich they are, with Chappelle describing the length of his driveway to great comedic effect and Gervais casually dropping that he lives in a 17-room mansion.
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