Dave Chappelle Backlash Over Charlie Kirk Jokes

0:11 Well, in a week that John Mulaney's hosting SNL, this sure as heck is not a slow news week. Hi, I'm Johnny Mac with your daily comedy news. Let's talk about Dave Chappelle. During back-to-back performances on his Carmageddon tour as part of the New York Comedy Festival, Dave Chappelle apparently made some jokes about Charlie Kirk. Here is the first clip of what appears to be Dave Chappelle. Now, I say appears to be because, as you know, we're not allowed to bring phones into Dave Chappelle's show, but it seems like somebody did, and this sure seems like Dave Chappelle saying this about Charlie Kirk. It's scary being a public speaker. And I mean, look, ever since that guy, Charlie Kirk, got murdered, and I shouldn't say this publicly, but I feel better.

1:03 In this second clip, this appears to be Dave Chappelle on stage talking about Charlie Kirk looking up. Some people think that is suggesting that Charlie Kirk is in hell. So after I did the initial recording, and if you're watching on video, you can see I'm in a totally different outfit right now because it's actually a day later from the original anyway. Apparently what Dave Chappelle is believed to be referencing there is at the roast of Kevin Hart. Tony Hinchcliffe said right now George Floyd is looking up at us all laughing so hard he can't breathe. So that is believed what Dave Chappelle is doing a callback to there. Someone named Paul Zappula posted on Twitter. Dave Chappelle is done comedically after what he did Saturday night.

1:47 He told a Madison Square Garden crowd that he's happy Charlie Kirk was killed. and that the feeling is involuntary. Attendees also report he said that he doesn't care about 9-11 and is sick of people saying never forget. None of what Chappelle said is funny. Shame on him. Someone named The Cooler on Twitter wrote, I saw Dave Chappelle tonight at Madison Square Garden. I've seen Dave many times. Tonight was not one of his best shows. The show started at 7.30. Dave did not come out until 10 p.m. He had a lot of people on before him. One, DJ Sypha Sounds, opened and played music and emceed for about an hour. Two, Marshall Brandon was the first comic, and he was probably the best comedian tonight. Interesting. 3. Marcelo Hernandez came on next. He was okay. 4. DJ Sypha Sounds took the stage and did a stand-up set and was surprisingly good. 5. Tlaib Khali and Mos Def performed some old Blackstar songs for about half an hour. 6.

2:33 Busta Rhymes came out and performed a few songs. 7. Sypha Sounds did a two-minute stand-up set. Eight, boxing ring announcer legend Michael Buffer came out and introduced Dave. Nine, Dave Chappelle closed the show. He did an hour, including a lot of the jokes I heard already at the September 11th benefit he did. He opened with about 10 minutes on the midterms, talked about Chris Rock and Will Smith, talked about Trump allegedly doing things to Bill Clinton. This was funnier than the first time I heard it in September. Overall, his set was OK. I've seen Dave many times and this was not his best performance. The show overall was good, but I paid to see Dave and not all those other people. Now, that particular person did not mention the Charlie Kirk jokes. Erica Kirk tweeted to see leftist podcasters, comedians and commentators laugh about political assassination as though it's entertainment and the destruction of a human life is a punchline.

3:19 is beyond disgusting. My husband, Charlie Kirk, was killed in an act of political violence, something our two children and I live with every day for the rest of our lives. A culture that laughs at assassination as one of profound moral decay and threatens the very foundation of our country and the principles that hold our democracy together. You do not have to agree with someone's politics to recognize the value of their life. That should not be so hard. Political violence must never be something this country tolerates, excuses, or celebrates. Rob Schneider weighed in. He hopes that Dave Chappelle will come back to your great spirit of generosity and compassion. You are not the same human being you once were. You are no longer a champion of compassionate freedom of thought, a person who makes people question their prejudices and preconceived judgments, an entertainer who asks their audience to open their minds and hearts more. Dave, you are now a champion of senseless violence who embodies the base ugliness of our body politic. Nobody deserves to die for engaging in conversation and no one should, quote, feel better, unquote, after the violent murder of a husband, a father, a son, and a friend. No human being deserves that. I remain your friend, and I hope that you will come back to your great spirit of generosity and compassion that earned you the love and respect of so many of us.

4:24 Elon Musk weighed in. He posted, shame, shame, shame on Chappelle. He shared a post showing Kirk defending Chappelle on free speech in 2022. Musk posted again, saying Dave Chappelle is cruel. Dave Chappelle was in the goodbyes on Saturday Night Live if you made it all the way to the end of a terrible episode. He wasn't the only star there supporting Drewski. Chappelle, Michael B. Jordan, Austin Butler, and Chris Rock were all there. People are wondering, that's a lot of star power for Drewski. Now, Jordan and Butler are currently co-starring in the Miami Vice movie, which I cannot wait for. Also on the SNL stage, Emma Stone, Walton Goggins, Texas Senator-elect James Tallarico. That's a lot of big names for their particular episode. My guess is that a bunch of those people went to see Chappelle at the Garden, and then they were like, hey, let's go over to SNL.

5:16 So the Garden's 33rd and 8th, and 30 Rock is, what, 49th and 6th? So, you know, you hop in your town car and you're over there in 5, 10 minutes, depending on the traffic on a Saturday night. Well, not five, sorry. I grew up in New York City. It's not five. John, that was a stupid thing to say. You should edit that out. You should be embarrassed as a New Yorker suggesting you could go 15 blocks in five minutes on a Saturday night in New York City. Are you insane? Okay, 20 minutes maybe. Whatever you got in your town car, you're hanging out with Chris Rock and the guys from Miami Vice. You're having a good time. You go over to SNL. But it was a terrible, terrible episode on late night or Dennis Perkins writes. This season is dire with the Drewski hosted episode, the worst of the bunch so far. I agree. It's flaws simply those of the season writ larger, clumsier and finally more impossible to ignore. There was no flow to tonight's sketches. The show's pacing, direction, and ensemble energy grinded gears as scenes lurched and limped to almost complete audience indifference. The writing is surface level at best. Premises are laid out and just lie there, twitching like fish under the hot lights. Whatever stabs at absurdity or originality so poorly integrated that they come off as embarrassed. With five lackluster episodes in a row to start season 52...

6:25 SNL is already out of juice on every level. Now, John Mulaney is your host this week. That'll be the big test if Mulaney can carry an episode or not. I did see some people complaining about Marcelo Hernandez. I'm not the only one saying Marcelo Hernandez does one thing. I saw some comments on Twitter about that when they introduced the sketch about what was it? There's in auto shop or whatever, and they said the word Dominican. I knew exactly what the sketch was going to be, and I almost threw my remote at the TV. But I like my TV, and I shouldn't smash my TV because Marcelo Hernandez does one thing and does one thing. All right, today's theme continues to be horrible things. A Bill Cosby accuser has asked a judge to hold the comedian in contempt months after a jury granted a $ 59. 25 million civil sexual assault judgment against Bill Cosby. Donna Motzinger claims that Bill Cosby has not paid a single penny of that judgment per court documents obtained by TMZ. Jurors first awarded $ 19. 25 million in compensatory damages, then added $ 40 million in punitive damages in March, three years after Motzinger accused Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1972. As I've said on this program in the past, someday Bill Cosby will pass away and then I will tell you a story, but not until then. And Russell Brand has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison, 10 years, 6 months.

7:48 A jury found Russell Brand guilty last week on four of the seven counts against him. He was found guilty of raping a woman he'd met at one of his shows in 2009 and of sexually assaulting three women at a bar, a radio station, and a TV studio between 2004 and 2009. Brand denies all charges. The judge handed down the sentence live on camera. He said that Brand had become a sexual predator and paused to pay tribute to the determination and bravery of the woman who'd come forward. He then ordered Russell Brand to be taken down to the cells. Nouveau asked Daniel Sloss about his bitter tour. And, John, that seems like an awkward segue. Stay with me. They asked Daniel Sloss, what are some of the things you've been bitter about recently? The name of your tour is Bitter.

8:28 Sloss said, the problem with shows is you have to name them two months before you write them. Russell Brand is in court for many, many sexual assault allegations that came to light during a documentary that was released in the UK three years ago. I did not know I was the only comedian involved. Every comedian knew, and I thought it was going to be a whole bunch of us getting involved. So at the time I was writing the show, I was very bitter about that, and that's where the title came from. I'll tell you, today's topics are really not what I wanted to do when I started this podcast. I like talking about fun things or even. Colorful things like tomorrow I'll tell you about Matt Rife versus the porn star like that's you know more fun than what we're talking about today all right at the New York Comedy Festival tonight uh there's still really no buzz on this thing I love the folks but New York City's too big like even Montreal which is a pretty big city as you know you go on the next day and there are recaps of all the various shows but in New York it just gets lost it's just too big Seven o'clock at the venue on Music Row at Hard Rock Hotel. Just say the Hard Rock guys.

9:31 Margaret Cho presents Charlene K., Tiger Daughter, or How I Brought My Immigrant Mother, Ultimate Shame. Sounds complicated. Pat McGann, that's the Chicago guy that was opening for Sebastian, isn't it? I think. He's at the Gramercy at seven o'clock. Johnny Mac is scrolling down looking for some names and not getting any yet. Maddie Kelly, she's fantastic. She's at Union Hall at 7.30. She's fantastic, but not exactly a name. Oh, here's a good one. An Evening with Jay McBride. Jay's a lot of fun. That's at Pack Slip Social at 7.30. Josh Gonneman at the Bell House at 7.30. Her Sterical at the Broadway Comedy Club at 8.30. Funniest Women Comedians, in case you didn't get it. I like what you did there. Eddie Pepitone at Union Hall at 10. And all right, that's a Wednesday night at the Comedy Festival.

10:19 I got to try and make trivia tonight. I haven't been in a couple weeks, but a little busy trivia, guys. You know I love you. I'm talking to you on the Facebook group. I've just been busy. And the Knicks are on tonight, too. I don't know what I'm going to do. And I'll leave you with this one. My hogwash detector is suspecting that perhaps, possibly, maybe these guys want some attention. but it's a colorful story, so I will share it with you. A Toronto comedy duo is facing eviction, says the New York Post, over complaints about indoor smoking, but claim their landlord's air quality concern. could actually stem from the fact that they fart too much. Yes, I said fart too much, which is why I think these comedians want attention, but hey, they got in the New York Post and they got a guy in the basement to talk about it on his podcast. S.E. Grummets and Sam Kruger are a couple who perform horror, comedy, and interactive queer theater under the name Creepy Boys. They have a site trying to raise funds for their legal expenses, and they say, this is not a joke. We wish we were joking. The landlord suffers from a chronic lung condition, and the landlord apparently gave them the boot after noticing volatile organic compounds detected by an air quality monitor in her upstairs unit, says the New York Post. The tenants who claim they don't smoke inside said they took every measure to identify the source of the VOCs and found through trial and error. that it was not related to appliance use or home fragrances. A health specialist supposedly verified information from the monitors manufactured that suggested VOC levels react to bodily functions and could be caused by their flatulence.

11:50 The fundraiser says, we are being wrongfully evicted because we fart too much. In Ontario, such evictions have to be heard by the landlord and tenant board. So we are going to court. At the time of this recording, they had raised at least $ 2, 400. And that's your comedy news for today. See you tomorrow.