Years of telling us what we can’t joke about = Dave Chappelle ‘Sticks and Stones’.
After watching Dave Chappelle's new comedy special on Netflix 3x in 24 hours, I still can’t believe what I witnessed. People laughing again at the absurdly inappropriate, and they were laughing really hard!
It's the most important stand up in decades!
In my opinion, Sticks and Stones deserves to be mentioned in the same conversations with Pryor and Carlin’s body of work.
It's the laugh America needed at the perfect time!
Chappelle tackles it all in one hour. Everything we’ve been told not to discuss (unless our opinion is aligned with the woke), everything we’ve been told we can’t laugh about because of feelings, and everything that’s divided this country for way too long.
I’m going to make an argument for this being the bravest and most important special done in decades because of where we are in society at the moment. I’ll go as far as saying, it may be one of top 5 greatest stand up shows ever.
Before you say I’m jumping ahead, let me ask...
Have we as a society ever been told not to laugh as much as we have in the past 10-15 years? Have we been this divided and filled with as much tension since the 60’s and early 70’s? But most importantly, has anyone with a recent comedy special, brilliantly tapped into those questions while letting all of society’s dirty little secrets out of the closet for a laugh, and then do it as brutally as Chappelle just did?
‘Sticks and Stones’ will eventually become a comedy classic, but the dust has to settle. It may take years, but once people see that Dave risked everything and understands that his timing was perfect, they’ll have to come to terms with Dave Chappelle’s ‘Sticks and Stones’ being nothing short of genius.
‘Sticks and Stones’ will eventually become a comedy classic, but the dust has to settle. It may take years, but once people see that Dave risked everything and understands that his timing was perfect, they’ll have to come to terms with Dave Chappelle’s ‘Sticks and Stones’ being nothing short of genius.
In my opinion, Sticks and Stones deserves to be mentioned in the same conversations with Pryor and Carlin’s body of work.
And for the “critics” / bloggers that are offended and giving this masterpiece negative press, time will prove you were on the wrong side of comedy history.
Just like those who defended French actor Juicy Smooyay.
2 comments:
Well said!
I've said for years that one of the major factors in our problems as a society in recent decades has been that we have forgotten how to laugh at and with each other. We have become so such a self absorbed culture that for a generation of young people (aged 13 to 35) they haven't been taught to how to take being the butt of a joke. While in our generation it was a sort of right of passage. We were taught (well the ones of us with common sense parents were) how deal with those situations. We learned through attrition to laugh at ourselves and our short comings. Having thick skin was a must in my neighborhood growing up. Being able to SNAP back with a joke got me out of a lot of potentially bad situations. Making other people laugh at you and with you, in my humble opinion makes you a more tolerable human being. If you can make people laugh, then you are easy to be around. The people I like hanging out with most are the ones who make me laugh regularly. Laughter cures a whole lotta I'll will.....
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