Dave Chappelle's 5 most controversial jokes from 'The Closer' Netflix special

The blast radius from the controversy over Dave Chappelle’s repeated remarks about the trans and LGBTQ+ communities in his Netflix special The Closer has now extended to the National Labor Relations Board and bruising charges of “unfair labor practices” against the streamer.

Caitlyn Jenner is defending Dave Chappelle.

controversial Netflix comedy special “The Closer” after his comments about the trans community raised some eyebrows.The comedian, 48, shared a five-minute video on Instagram Monday where he performed standup and responded to the backlash. Chappelle stated that he will meet with transgender Netflix employees, however, he won’t be “bending to anybody’s demands.”“To the transgender community, I am more than willing to give you an audience, but you will not summon me.

Dave Chappelle is opening up about the recent controversy surrounding his Netflix special, .The 48-year-old comedian took to Instagram to share his reaction to the recent protests and Netflix employee walkouts that have occurred since the comments he made in his special. The controversy began when hit Netflix earlier this month.

After nearly three weeks of controversy, Netflix firings and suspensions of trans staff, and protests on the streets of Hollywood over remarks centered on the trans and LGBTQ+ communities by Dave Chappelle in his The Closer special, the comedian today is finally responding significantly — and it’s a mixed bag, to put it mildly.

Bill Maher has never been shy about expressing some often-unpopular opinions, and he continued that tradition on Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher”.

Jon Stewart is putting on his public relations cap in defense of longtime friend, comedian Dave Chappelle, who Stewart is adamant was not trying to be divisive in his latest comedy special, "The Closer."  Netflix employees staged a walkout on Wednesday after previously taking to social media and issuing internal memos to the streamer’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos, calling for the comedy offering to be removed from the platform after many felt Chappelle made jokes negatively impacting the transgender

In the wake of outrage over Dave Chappelle’s controversial comments about transgender people in his new Netflix special “The Closer”, LGBTQ employees and their allies are staging a walkout on Wednesday, Oct. 20, protesting Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos refusal to remove the special from the streaming service.

Today was a big day for Netflix, which reported strong quarterly earnings and “mind-boggling” 142 million households that have sampled runaway hit Squid Game. But the celebration was subdued in the streamer’s upper echelons as the company is still reeling from the internal — and external — backlash against transphobic statements in Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special The Closer.

Channing Tatum is addressing the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle and his Netflix special The Closer.

The Closer.A Bloomberg report published on Wednesday (October 13) stated Netflix spent $24.1million on The Closer and $23.6million on the comedian’s 2019 special, Sticks & Stones, comparing them to the $3.9million spent for Bo Burnham’s Inside and Squid Game’s $21.4million.From internal documents seen by the publication, the Sticks & Stones special was measured as having an “impact value” of $19.4million by Netflix, meaning it cost more than the value it generated.In a statement released to NME,

Now things are really getting messy.

The Netflix/Dave Chappelle drama over his recent special, “The Closer,” doesn’t seem to be calming down anytime soon. And while Chappelle himself has stayed out of the discussion, the surprising villain that is seemingly coming out of this whole situation (in the eyes of the LGBTQ+ community, at least) is co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who unabashedly came out in support of Chappelle’s special, which many say contains transphobic material.

Netflix often gets congratulated for being a bastion of creative freedom, giving filmmakers and creators a chance to make whatever project they want, as long as it attracts eyeballs and subscribers.

The Closer.Chappelle has been heavily criticized for a number of jokes in the special, which released on Oct. 5, including saying he was “team TERF” (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) like author JK Rowling and calling gender “a fact.”“Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth,” Chappelle said.

Comedy great Damon Wayans is speaking out on the ongoing public schism surrounding Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy special "The Closer" and said he believes Chappelle is "a unicorn" for standing up to "PC culture." "I feel like Dave freed the slaves — the comedians," the "Major Payne" actor, 61, told TMZ of Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special during a brief exchange at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Monday.

A Netflix engineer who was critical on social media about trans remarks Dave Chappelle made in his controversial The Closer has been suspended by the streamer, as Ted Sarandos declares the company “don’t believe” GLAAD slamned special crosses “the line on hate.”

Netflix stand-up special The Closer, which included voicing his support for Harry Potter author JK Rowling.“They cancelled J.K. Rowling – my God,” Chappelle said in the show.

Dave Chappelle’s controversial new Netflix standup special "The Closer" has a very high audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes despite calls from activists to remove the piece of content from the streamer's library.  The comedian, 48, is being criticized by many in the LGBTQ+ community for comments he made about transgender people.