"That’s why I don’t be coming out doing comedy all the time. I’m goddamn sick of it. This is the worst time ever to be a celebrity. You’re gonna be finished. Everyone’s doomed...."

"Doesn’t matter what I say. And if you at home watching this shit on Netflix, remember bitch, you clicked on my face. Celebrity hunting season. Doesn’t matter what I say, they’re gonna get everybody eventually. Like look, I don’t think I did anything wrong, but we’ll see."

Said David Chappelle, quoted in his new comedy special, "Sticks and Bones," quoted in "Dave Chappelle under fire for discrediting Michael Jackson accusers in Netflix special/Standup comedian also takes aim at callout culture that sees public figures held to account by audiences" (The Guardian).

We watched the show last night.

ADDED: I enjoyed the show and laughed while it was going on. Looking back on the whole thing, my primary observation is that Chappelle's humor is premised on no empathy — specifically a black man's withholding of empathy from everyone who's in a better position than a generic black man. Chappelle is able to make this funny for the general audience because he has us — most of us or some of us — convinced that he is good at heart. The clearest example of his no-empathy position was stated outright when he mocked white people on heroin and said that he had no more empathy for them than white people had for black people during the crack epidemic of the 80s. He even dramatized killing a white heroin addict — blowing him away with a shotgun.